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Waimea Homestead Farmers Market

Written by Sonia Martinez | 22 July 2010

Waimea Homestead Farmers Market

For years, any time we passed by the Waimea Homestead Farmers Market site it was usually during a week day and the market was closed. A couple of months ago when we were on our way to the Kohala area on a Saturday, we decided to make a stop and check out the market. Two weeks later, a friend invited us to meet her at the market for breakfast. There is a breakfast tent she recommended and that is where we had a long breakfast while being introduced to some of her friends. The breakfast tent feels like the social hub of the market. Here you will find a bit of everything that is made fresh, including a delicious plate of Eggs Benedict. We have been back three times in the past two months!

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Natural Farming with Indigenous Microorganisms: Inputs and Uses

Written by Jackie Prell | 23 July 2010

Master Cho (on left) instructs in IMO production at Hilo workshop.

Natural Farming with Indigenous Microorganisms (IMO) is a method of farming using naturally occurring soil microorganisms that are deliberately collected and cultured. It has been practiced throughout Asia and Korea for centuries. It enhances soil fertility and plant nutrient uptake through the introduction and proliferation of beneficial soil microbes or mycorrhizae. The originator and founder of Natural Farming, Mr. Han Kyu Cho, has visited Hawaii several times and this practice is taking root, getting attention and support from the county and state as well as from many small-scale and commercial farmers.

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Self-Reliant Garden Techniques Workshop

Written by Lokahi | 22 July 2010

Tim Lloyd demonstrates the strength of a garden bench he made in a few minutes out of scrap materials.

I must say I was more than a little skeptical. I had seen the flyer for the Self-Reliant Home Garden Techniques (June 16-17, 2010, Holualoa, North Kona) workshop with the photograph of the presenter, Tim Lloyd, standing on top of his “garden bench” (isn’t a garden bench something you sit on to enjoy the view and smell the flowers?) made out of a couple of pallets. I thought he might just be talented at balancing himself. And a pallet has lots of gaps between the slats—how would the soil stay in? And if it was lined with, say, plastic, how would it drain? Not to mention that the sides were only 3” high—what can you grow in 3” of soil, other than starts?

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Pumpkin and Squash—Specialty Crop Profile

Written by Ted Radovich | 22 July 2010

Local squash type grown at Ginger Hill Farm, Kealakekua.

Whole fresh pumpkin and squash fruits are the primary product of commerce. Cooked squash may be canned or dried for storage. Seed can also be consumed. Flowers and tender vine tips of all edible types are sold and consumed as vegetables. Male flowers and vine tips provide a source of income for growers prior to fruits reaching marketable stage, although care should be taken to leave some male flowers as a pollen source for female flowers. Selective, judicial harvesting of young shoots should preserve and promote canopy development and is not expected to significantly reduce yields.

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The Pa’auilo School Agriculture Program

Written by Donna Mitts | 24 June 2010

Kids holding chick at Pa'auilo Elementary & Intermediate School garden.

Pa’auilo Elementary & Intermediate School is located on the Hamakua Coast, between Honoka’a and Laupahoehoe. Its student population is around 275 and is the last K-9^th grade school in the state. The school has had a long history of promoting agriculture and I started the garden here as a volunteer ten years ago. I’ve been leading the school’s agriculture program since then. Besides staffing the parent center, my purpose is to teach students how to produce healthy food and care for small-scale livestock.

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Waimea Homestead Farmers Market

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Natural Farming with Indigenous Microorganisms: Inputs and Uses

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Self-Reliant Garden Techniques Workshop

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Pumpkin and Squash—Specialty Crop Profile

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The Pa’auilo School Agriculture Program

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