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September 2016 Vol 52 Same Canoe Newsletter Hawaii, California & Washington
One Island Goes to Washington DC . New Award from the Jane Goodall Institute Community Food Forest Plantings and Tree Sale . Drunken Botanist and Mushrooms Classes Superfoods Event . Hemp Film Showings Around the Island www.oneisland.org
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Hemp Events in Honoka'a and Hilo

'Bringing it Home' Film showings, Hawaii Hemp Q&A, and potlucks
Join us for a film that reveals uses for Hemp that will surprise you and showcases company success stories that will impress you. Now that industrial hemp is approved for development in Hawaii, we have a stake in its future.
The well-crafted film 'Bringing it Home' shows how other countries - and US companies importing hemp seeds, oil and fiber from foreign sources - are using hemp right now, today.
Presentation 7-8:30. All welcome.
Location: Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hamakua 45-3490 Mamane Street, Honoka'a
In Hilo Sept. 20th In conjunction with the Hilo Chapter meeting of the Hawaii Farmers Union United. Community Potluck 6-7. Hemp presentation 7-8:30. All welcome.
46 Kamana St., mauka of Island Naturals off Kilauea Ave., Hilo
Food, medicine, fiber, fuel and green building materials.
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Community Food Forest
Initiative takes root
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Planting Dates - Please join us! South Kona, Saturday morning Oct. 8, 10am -12 noon
North Kohala Saturday afternoon October 29, 3-5pm
RSVP for directions and details to hawaii@oneisland.org
Click here to donate a tree!
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Cacao Tree Sale
We've ordered 50 local island cacao trees and will have them available for sale at the tree plantings. Propagated by experienced nurseries, the trees are priced at $20 each and all proceeds benefit the Community Food Forest Initiative.
Cacao are 'social trees' and it is recommended to plant 2-3.
South Kona pick-up October 8, noon-1 pm
North Kohala pick-up Oct 29, 2-3 pm
To pre-order cacao trees, email
hawaii@oneisland.org
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Hawaii Storm Maps
save these links
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World wind map - open and zoom in by clicking on Hawaii to see wind patterns around the islands.
Animated GOES map from NOAA
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Real Food
Real Farms
A food system change and resource development initiative
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Starting this Fall, One Island is hosting events and articles that promote Real Food . Real Farms. Learning from allies across the country, we are addressing specific resource barriers in order to stimulate Real Change. See first article in Kohala Mountain News, August issue, pg 3-4
Watch for upcoming event news, planning meetings, loan programs, and on the ground projects.
Support your Foodshed!
For information, contact realfood@realfarms.org
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Jane Goodall Institute selects
Great Pollinator Hunt
for September Feature and inclusion in IUCN World Conservation Congress

Pollination is necessary for the reproduction of over 85% of the world's flowering plants, including more than 2/3s of the world's food crops and species.
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Beekeepers of North Kohala
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All around our island, small groups of pollinator protectors are joining forces to establish bee hives in their backyards and farms, and are creating bee and butterfly gardens to provide a safe home to help regrow pollinator populations.
The Greenschool provides over 10 acres of butterfly and bee habitat on our organic farm in Hawaii. We are home to wild butterflies, moths, bees and other pollinators - and we foster breeding monarchs to help increase their population.
Sponsored by the Green School
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Superfoods: Good Medicine Turmeric is a renowned anti-inflammatory
North Kohala Public Library Monday, September 19th
6:30pm
Next in the Good Medicine series is Lokahi Garden Sanctuary founder and owner Dr. Richard Liebmann speaking on medicinal food and herbs growing in Kohala and Hawaii.
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Mamaki makes a tea respected for lowering high blood pressure.
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Good Medicine is a health and wellness series sponsored by the Same Canoe Local Food Challenge in conjunction with the North Kohala Public Library.
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Amazing Mushrooms
Growing Food from Wood
November 9th and 16th
Mushroom Maestro Zach Mermel is back to expand our fungi repertoire. In this hands-on seminar, discover how to partner with our multi-functional fungi allies on logs and wood chips, and learn how to use an unwanted shrub or tree as a mushroom 'hotel', creating food AND ridding our yards of unwanted stumps. Enroll here.
Food + Myco-remediation? You bet!
Learn to grow Shiitake on logs with take home materials, plus receive a starter kit infused with a new strain from Zach: King Stropharia mushroom mycelium.
Workshop fee, including take home materials, $57.
Wednesday, November 9th at Kokolulu Farm, Hawi 1:30-5 pm
Wednesday, November 16th, at SKEA, Honaunau,
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The Drunken Botanist
with Donna Maltz and Dawn Barnett at Always in Season Farmstead, Hawi
Put it on your calendar for Saturday December 3rd
Come learn the magic of Mead, Cordials and Herbal Infused Concoctions, just in time for Holiday merriment!
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One Island and Same Canoe Goes to Washington
One Island advocated for Hawaii funding in Washington DC during August.
Same Canoe participated in the project directors meeting for NIFA Food Security programs and attended a (really) warm and welcoming founders evening reception in Georgetown.
We visited the new Museum of the American Indian, the Hirshorn Sculpture Garden, and National Gallery of Art, then convened a productive meeting with the National Endowment for the Arts to discuss rural public art funding strategies.
And we met with the USDA to discuss plans for new Native Hawaiian renewable energy support.
We were honored to represent Hawaii Island as advocates for food system projects, visual and performance arts, and as sustainable energy project awardees.
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