STATEWIDE Master Gardener Conference
Maui ~ September 12-14, 2014
Planning has begun on the 2014 Statewide University of Hawaii Master Gardener Conference to be held on Maui, September 12, 13, 14. There has been some discussion amongst the Maui Master Gardeners about using the slogan, "100 years of extending knowledge and changing lives" in honor of the Centennial Celebration of Cooperative Extension. The focus of the Conference will be on showing off the beautiful Island of Maui through garden tours. The Maui Master Gardeners have been working with Jayme to coordinate the Conference. There are many things to consider and many things to do, including fundraising to help with travel to Maui. If you are interested in helping with planning, please let your coordinator know, and we'll get you involved with one of the committees.
Hope to see you there!
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NEWS from around the STATE
NEWS FROM KAUA'I
Kim Perry, MG Coordinator Kaua'i
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Melicope anisata |
Master Gardeners and State Performance Standards
by Tom Timmons, Kauaʻi MG Kauaʻi MGs share their expertise with Hawaii State Performance Standards to help all master gardeners across the state deliver high quality educational programs to Hawaii students. READ here.
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NEWS FROM O'AHU
Jayme Grzebik, MG Coordinator Oʻahu
Ilima
Sida fallax |
Native Plant Pollinator Garden at The UGC
There are four major threats to honeybees: pests, diseases, pesticides, and poor diet. Last September Oʻahu Master Gardeners were joined by the Waipahu High School Honor Society to install a native plant pollinator garden among the vegetable gardens at UGC. The pollinator garden was established to help improve bee nutrition with minimum pesticide use and to attract pollinators to the vegetables growing which depend on pollinators for fruit.
With Pollinators in mind, Our 2014 Training Class embarks on several projects at the UH Urban Garden Center in Pearl City. Read here.
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NEWS FROM MAUI COUNTY
Lorraine Brooks, MG Coordinator Maui
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Rosa chinensis
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Maui Master Gardeners welcome their class of 38 trainees and the exciting new projects they're working on: an apiary, insectary plants, trap crops and repellant plants for pest management. Take a peek at their Help Desk Database! Read here. |
NEWS FROM WEST HAWAI'I
Ty McDonald, MG Coordinator
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Ohia
Metrosideros polymorpha
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UHMG Winter Newsletter
by Celeste Makrevis, West Hawaiʻi Master Gardener
In this article, the creative and adventurous West Hawaii MGs examine Korean Natural Farming systems, concoct Surinam Cherry liqueur, and delve further into plant ID, to mention just a few of their many activities. Read here.
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The Kamehameha Butterfly and the Pulelehua Project
by Dr. William Haines, UH-CTAHR PEPS
The Kamehameha butterfly occurs on all of the main Hawaiian Islands, but unfortunately, its range is shrinking. In the early 1900s the butterfly was commonly seen at low elevations in wet parts of the islands like Manoa and Hilo. Even as late as the 1980s, the butterfly was common in the forests of Tantalus, but it no longer occurs there, even though its host plants are relatively common. The Pulelehua Project is a "citizen science" effort to map distributions of the Kamehameha butterfly with help from the general public. Master Gardeners may be able to help even more!
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Learn how to recognize the different stages of
the Kamehameha butterfly and its host plants.
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Pest Alert: Little Fire Ant on Oahu and Maui
Christy Martin, CGAPS
Over the holidays, a public report of a suspicious ant at a garden shop on Maui led to the confirmation that little fire ants (LFA; Wasmannia auropunctata) colonies were present in hapu`u logs imported from Hawaiʻi island, for sale in multiple garden shops and nurseries on Oʻahu and Maui. Read here.
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Centennial Celebration of Cooperative Extension
Dr. Carl Evensen, Interim Associate Dean/Director of Cooperative Extension
On May 8, 1914, the Smith-Lever Act was signed into law, establishing the Cooperative Extension Service. That same year the first Hawai'i 4-H program was started. Extension came to Hawai'i with the signing of the Territorial Extension Act in 1929, when UH President David Crawford was named Director of Extension. Since then, CTAHR has provided support to farmers, ranchers, families, and communities across the state.
2014 is the Centennial year of national Cooperative Extension and we're joining in the celebration. The commemoration will take a number of forms. You've already seen one of the outputs celebrating the impacts of our College, the CTAHR in Focus booklet that just came out. We'll be further celebrating the importance of Extension at the CTAHR Awards Banquet, at community events, in the quarterly Impact Report, in CTAHR Notes and CTAHR Alumni & Friends, on our Web page, through Facebook and Twitter, and we will promote our stories to news media.
Across the USA, extension professionals are celebrating their events through Twitter and Facebook. And CTAHR is joining them. If you "tweet," please follow and retweet our Twitter page @ctahrces100. Or check out our Facebook Page: CES CTAHR. Part of this effort is not only to celebrate Extension but to make us known both locally and nationally. Social media can help us.
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