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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180526T090000
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SUMMARY:Keokea Farmers Market
DESCRIPTION:5/12/18 and 5/26/18 — Keokea Farmers Market 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.\, Keokea nursery\, w/11 a.m. mini-lecture on farming/ranching-related topics. 
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/keokea-farmers-market-4/
LOCATION:Kēōkea Marketplace\, Mile Marker 17\, Kula Hwy. at Ka‘amana St.\, Kula\, HI\, 96790
CATEGORIES:Community,Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180512T093000
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SUMMARY:Keokea Farmers Market
DESCRIPTION:5/12/18 and 5/26/18 — Keokea Farmers Market 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.\, Keokea nursery\, w/11 a.m. mini-lecture on farming/ranching-related topics. 
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/keokea-farmers-market-3/
LOCATION:Kēōkea Marketplace\, Mile Marker 17\, Kula Hwy. at Ka‘amana St.\, Kula\, HI\, 96790
CATEGORIES:Community,Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180502T170000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180502T180000
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SUMMARY:Maui Homestead Farmers & Ranchers Association
DESCRIPTION:Maui Homestead Farmers & Ranchers Association (ag/pastoral wait-listers) meeting 5 to 6 p.m.\, Living Way Church in Happy Valley\, Wailuku; review plans for 11/3/18Maui Homestead Makahiki Fest to be held at Hoaloha Farms\, Waikapu.
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/maui-homestead-farmers-ranchers-association-2/
LOCATION:Living Way Church\, 399 N Market St\, Wailuku\, HI\, 96793
CATEGORIES:Community,Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180428T130000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180428T150000
DTSTAMP:20260421T032821
CREATED:20180420T065909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T065909Z
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SUMMARY:Keokea Homestead Farm Lots Association
DESCRIPTION:Keokea Homestead Farm Lots association potluck meeting 1 to 3 p.m.\, Keokea nursery.
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/keokea-homestead-farm-lots-association/
LOCATION:Keokea Nursery\, Mile Marker 16.7\, Kula Hwy\, Kula\, HII
CATEGORIES:Community,Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180428T120000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180428T133000
DTSTAMP:20260421T032821
CREATED:20180420T065745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T065745Z
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SUMMARY:Fog-Drip/Sprouted-Fodder Machines Demo
DESCRIPTION:Tsunami Products president Kevin Collins gives demonstration of fog-drip/sprouted-fodder machines 12:15 to 1 p.m. at Keokea nursery\, next door to Grandma’s Coffee House\, Mile Marker 16.7 of Kula Highway.
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/fog-drip-sprouted-fodder-machines-demo/
LOCATION:Keokea Nursery\, Mile Marker 16.7\, Kula Hwy\, Kula\, HII
CATEGORIES:Community,Farming,Ranching
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180209
DTSTAMP:20260421T032821
CREATED:20180204T205620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180204T205620Z
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SUMMARY:Deadline USDA Beginning Farmers & Ranchers Grant
DESCRIPTION:February 8 — deadline USDA Beginning Farmers & Ranchers Grant
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/deadline-usda-beginning-farmers-ranchers-grant/
LOCATION:HI
CATEGORIES:Farming,Ranching
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180207T170000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20180207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T032821
CREATED:20180204T205433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180205T051319Z
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SUMMARY:Maui Homestead Farmers & Ranchers Association
DESCRIPTION:February 7 — Maui Homestead Farmers & Ranchers Association 5 to 7 p.m.*\, Living Way Church\, Happy Valley \n*Screening of PowerPoint on Pa`upena CDC initiative to repatriate 4\,005 Upcountry homeland acres\, to develop 1\,200 ag/pastoral homestead lots
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/maui-homestead-farmers-ranchers-association/
LOCATION:Living Way Church\, 399 N Market St\, Wailuku\, HI\, 96793
CATEGORIES:Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20170924T080000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20170924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T032821
CREATED:20170916T004511Z
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SUMMARY:Fruitful Farmer Confab
DESCRIPTION:KULA — The public is invited to a Fruitful Farmer Conference next weekend Upcountry. \n Participants may attend free activities\, lectures and workshops Saturday\, Sept. 23\, as desired\, with preliminary sessions Sept. 22 and a wrap-up evaluation Sept. 24.\n\n\nTamara Sherrill discusses native cultivars 9 a.m. Sept. 23 at the free Fruitful Farmer Conference at Waiohuli community center. The Maui Nui Botanical Gardens executive director is shown with an endemic Hame (Antidesma platyphyllum) tree\, also known as Ha’āmaile and Mehamehame.\n\n\nAn expert discussing indigenous and endemic Hawaiian crops will highlight “Puwalu O Ka Hua Mahi‘ai” — The Fruitful Farmer Conference from Sept. 22 to 24 at Waiohuli community center at the bottom of Lau‘ie Drive. Tamara Sherrill\, executive director of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens\, will speak at 9 a.m. on native cultivars of kalo\, ko\, ‘uala\, ‘awa — taro\, sugarcane\, sweet potato and kava\, respectively — and other crops.\n\nMichael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen of Lapa‘au Farm in Olinda will keynote a noon luncheon on the topic of natural farming. Upcountry rancher Jerry Sakugawa will follow with a 2 p.m. question-and-answer forum on the challenges and expense of the cattle-ranching industry.\n\n\nNatural farmer Michael Marchand keynotes noon lunch Sept. 24 at the free Fruitful Farmer Conference at Waiohuli community center with his Lapa`au Farm partner Devin Fredericksen. A former collegiate lacrosse player and Kahului public school art teacher\, Marchand promotes permaculture and self-sustainability.\n\n\nAn added conference component is a two-night camp-out allowing Maui\ncommunity members\, especially beneficiaries awaiting Hawaiian homelands\, to bond with Upcountry farm- and ranch lands\, and with one another. Attendees should bring camp gear and potluck drinks\, side dishes and desserts; organizers will provide entrees.\n\nSee the complete conference schedule at website www.paupena.org or www.waiohuli.org\, or contact Kekoa Enomoto at (808) 276-2713 or kenomoto1@hawaii.rr.com. The nonprofit Pā‘upena Community Development Corporation presents this event with funding by USDA.\n\n\nPā‘upena co-founder Norman Abihai shows ‘awa bushes on his verdant one-acre Waiohuli homestead farm.\nPā‘upena Community Development Corporation presents Puwalu ‘O Ka Hua Mahi‘āi — The Fruitful Farmer Conference/two-night campout 9/22/17 through 9/24/17 at He Piko No Waiohuli — Waiohuli community center\, to promote agriculture and ranching among native Hawaiians on Maui. Open to the public\, activities and presentations involve\, as follows: \nFriday 9/22/17:  \n\n9 to 11 a.m. Tour Norman Abihai’s homestead farm replete with edible crops\, including 15 mango varieties\, 96 ‘Ahulua St.\, Waiohuli homestead (turn right at bottom of Lau‘ie Drive\, go half block\, park on street).\n12 noon — Lunch\, camp setup\, fellowship and ku‘i‘āi (pound poi for supper) with taro cultivator/woodworker Norman Abihai.\n7 p.m. — Video on Norman Abihai’s homestead farming operation\, followed by kanikapila.\n\nSaturday 9/23/17:  \n\n6:14 a.m. Chant up the sun with cultural practitioners\, optional; stage 5:50 a.m. at hale halawai (traditional structure).\n9 a.m. Hawaiian cultivars ‘ike/verification/propagation with Maui Nui Botanical Gardens executive director Tamara Sherrill.\n10:30 a.m. Disposition of/plans for HC&S former sugar lands.**\n12 noon luncheon keynote on natural farming by Michael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen.\n2 p.m. Question-and-answer forum on the challenges and expense of the cattle-ranching industry\, with Jerry Sakugawa.\n3 p.m. Ag/pastoral community design with a Department of Hawaiian Home Lands planner.**\n4:30 p.m. Global Indigenous Housing Solutions with Whangataki William Parata of Aotearoa.**\n\nSunday 9/24/17:  \n\nPuwalu assessments/wrapup\, followed by camp breakdown\, brunch\, site cleanup.\n\n— — — \nEvent presenters/activity leaders and background are\, as follows:  \n\nNorman Abihai\, Waiohuli homestead farmer\, woodworker\, retired heavy-equipment operator; will lead ku‘i‘āi (poi-pounding) workshop.\nKekoa Enomoto\, cultural practitioner\, kahuna kakalaleo (chanter of pule\, with same status as kumu hula)\, Hālau Nā Hanona Kūlike ‘O Pi‘ilani; will lead pule/oli.\nMichael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen are partners/co-owners of Lapa‘au Farm in Olinda\, Maui; keynote presenters.\nWhangataki William Parata\, principal with Global Indigenous Group; presenter.\nJerry Sakugawa\, principal of James C. Sakugawa & Sons Ranch; presenter.\nTamara Sherrill\, executive director of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens; presenter.\n\n— — — \nSummaries of event seminars\, workshops or other opportunities:  \n\nPu‘u O Kali hike allows participants to explore a 200-acre exclosure showcasing one of the archipelago’s last extant dryland forests\, replete with endemic/indigenous native trees\, shrubs and plants.\nFellowship and ku‘i‘āi (poi-pounding) session is hands-on\, interactive recreation of a traditional activity by Native Hawaiian kūpuna.\nVideo on a homestead farming operation explores an impressive one-acre farmlet teaming with edible produce\, including 15 mango varieties.\nChant up the sun\, to recreate Native Hawaiian cultural practice on the slopes of Haleakala\, “The House of the Sun.”\nHawaiian cultivars lecture presents an expert speaking on kalo\, kō\, ‘uala\, ‘awa and other native crops.\nHC&S former sugar lands presentation reveals a corporate land-use management plan to repurpose plantation acreage.\nQuestion-and-answer forum on ranching allows attendees to interface with a two-decade lessee of 5\,000 acres of homestead farm/ranchlands.\nAg/pastoral community-design workshop is a sovereign first step for wait-list beneficiaries to envision and realize their own homestead future.\nGlobal Indigenous Housing Solutions presentation is by a Maori affordable-housing developer\, who wants to introduce his New Zealand-based operations/techniques to Hawai`i.\nTwo-night campout allows attendees and `ohana members to bond with the Upcountry farm/ranchlands and with one another.\nPuwalu assessments/wrap-up session allows organizers and participants to make input on event improvements and to plan follow-up activities.\n\n**Possible sessions. Schedule subject to change.
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/fruitful-farmer-confab-3/
LOCATION:Waiohuli Community Center\, 881 Lau‘ie Drive\, Kula\, HI\, 96790
CATEGORIES:Community,DHHL,Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170924
DTSTAMP:20260421T032821
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170917T205913Z
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SUMMARY:Fruitful Farmer Confab
DESCRIPTION:KULA — The public is invited to a Fruitful Farmer Conference next weekend Upcountry.\n\nParticipants may attend free activities\, lectures and workshops Saturday\, Sept. 23\, as desired\, with preliminary sessions Sept. 22 and a wrap-up evaluation Sept. 24.\n\n\nTamara Sherrill discusses native cultivars 9 a.m. Sept. 23 at the free Fruitful Farmer Conference at Waiohuli community center. The Maui Nui Botanical Gardens executive director is shown with an endemic Hame (Antidesma platyphyllum) tree\, also known as Ha’āmaile and Mehamehame.\n\n\nAn expert discussing indigenous and endemic Hawaiian crops will highlight “Puwalu O Ka Hua Mahi‘ai” — The Fruitful Farmer Conference from Sept. 22 to 24 at Waiohuli community center at the bottom of Lau‘ie Drive. Tamara Sherrill\, executive director of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens\, will speak at 9 a.m. on native cultivars of kalo\, ko\, ‘uala\, ‘awa — taro\, sugarcane\, sweet potato and kava\, respectively — and other crops.\n\nMichael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen of Lapa‘au Farm in Olinda will keynote a noon luncheon on the topic of natural farming. Upcountry rancher Jerry Sakugawa will follow with a 2 p.m. question-and-answer forum on the challenges and expense of the cattle-ranching industry.\n\n\nNatural farmer Michael Marchand keynotes noon lunch Sept. 24 at the free Fruitful Farmer Conference at Waiohuli community center with his Lapa`au Farm partner Devin Fredericksen. A former collegiate lacrosse player and Kahului public school art teacher\, Marchand promotes permaculture and self-sustainability.\n\n\nAn added conference component is a two-night camp-out allowing Maui\ncommunity members\, especially beneficiaries awaiting Hawaiian homelands\, to bond with Upcountry farm- and ranch lands\, and with one another. Attendees should bring camp gear and potluck drinks\, side dishes and desserts; organizers will provide entrees.\n\nSee the complete conference schedule at website www.paupena.org or www.waiohuli.org\, or contact Kekoa Enomoto at (808) 276-2713 or kenomoto1@hawaii.rr.com. The nonprofit Pā‘upena Community Development Corporation presents this event with funding by USDA.\n\n\nPā‘upena co-founder Norman Abihai shows ‘awa bushes on his verdant one-acre Waiohuli homestead farm.\nPā‘upena Community Development Corporation presents Puwalu ‘O Ka Hua Mahi‘āi — The Fruitful Farmer Conference/two-night campout 9/22/17 through 9/24/17 at He Piko No Waiohuli — Waiohuli community center\, to promote agriculture and ranching among native Hawaiians on Maui. Open to the public\, activities and presentations involve\, as follows: \nFriday 9/22/17:  \n\n9 to 11 a.m. Tour Norman Abihai’s homestead farm replete with edible crops\, including 15 mango varieties\, 96 ‘Ahulua St.\, Waiohuli homestead (turn right at bottom of Lau‘ie Drive\, go half block\, park on street).\n12 noon — Lunch\, camp setup\, fellowship and ku‘i‘āi (pound poi for supper) with taro cultivator/woodworker Norman Abihai.\n7 p.m. — Video on Norman Abihai’s homestead farming operation\, followed by kanikapila.\n\nSaturday 9/23/17:  \n\n6:14 a.m. Chant up the sun with cultural practitioners\, optional; stage 5:50 a.m. at hale halawai (traditional structure).\n9 a.m. Hawaiian cultivars ‘ike/verification/propagation with Maui Nui Botanical Gardens executive director Tamara Sherrill.\n10:30 a.m. Disposition of/plans for HC&S former sugar lands.**\n12 noon luncheon keynote on natural farming by Michael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen.\n2 p.m. Question-and-answer forum on the challenges and expense of the cattle-ranching industry\, with Jerry Sakugawa.\n3 p.m. Ag/pastoral community design with a Department of Hawaiian Home Lands planner.**\n4:30 p.m. Global Indigenous Housing Solutions with Whangataki William Parata of Aotearoa.**\n\nSunday 9/24/17:  \n\nPuwalu assessments/wrapup\, followed by camp breakdown\, brunch\, site cleanup.\n\n— — — \nEvent presenters/activity leaders and background are\, as follows:  \n\nNorman Abihai\, Waiohuli homestead farmer\, woodworker\, retired heavy-equipment operator; will lead ku‘i‘āi (poi-pounding) workshop.\nKekoa Enomoto\, cultural practitioner\, kahuna kakalaleo (chanter of pule\, with same status as kumu hula)\, Hālau Nā Hanona Kūlike ‘O Pi‘ilani; will lead pule/oli.\nMichael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen are partners/co-owners of Lapa‘au Farm in Olinda\, Maui; keynote presenters.\nWhangataki William Parata\, principal with Global Indigenous Group; presenter.\nJerry Sakugawa\, principal of James C. Sakugawa & Sons Ranch; presenter.\nTamara Sherrill\, executive director of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens; presenter.\n\n— — — \nSummaries of event seminars\, workshops or other opportunities:  \n\nPu‘u O Kali hike allows participants to explore a 200-acre exclosure showcasing one of the archipelago’s last extant dryland forests\, replete with endemic/indigenous native trees\, shrubs and plants.\nFellowship and ku‘i‘āi (poi-pounding) session is hands-on\, interactive recreation of a traditional activity by Native Hawaiian kūpuna.\nVideo on a homestead farming operation explores an impressive one-acre farmlet teaming with edible produce\, including 15 mango varieties.\nChant up the sun\, to recreate Native Hawaiian cultural practice on the slopes of Haleakala\, “The House of the Sun.”\nHawaiian cultivars lecture presents an expert speaking on kalo\, kō\, ‘uala\, ‘awa and other native crops.\nHC&S former sugar lands presentation reveals a corporate land-use management plan to repurpose plantation acreage.\nQuestion-and-answer forum on ranching allows attendees to interface with a two-decade lessee of 5\,000 acres of homestead farm/ranchlands.\nAg/pastoral community-design workshop is a sovereign first step for wait-list beneficiaries to envision and realize their own homestead future.\nGlobal Indigenous Housing Solutions presentation is by a Maori affordable-housing developer\, who wants to introduce his New Zealand-based operations/techniques to Hawai`i.\nTwo-night campout allows attendees and `ohana members to bond with the Upcountry farm/ranchlands and with one another.\nPuwalu assessments/wrap-up session allows organizers and participants to make input on event improvements and to plan follow-up activities.\n\n**Possible sessions. Schedule subject to change.
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/fruitful-farmer-confab-2/
LOCATION:Waiohuli Community Center\, 881 Lau‘ie Drive\, Kula\, HI\, 96790
CATEGORIES:Community,DHHL,Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170923
DTSTAMP:20260421T032821
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170917T205830Z
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SUMMARY:Fruitful Farmer Confab
DESCRIPTION:KULA — The public is invited to a Fruitful Farmer Conference next weekend Upcountry.\n\nParticipants may attend free activities\, lectures and workshops Saturday\, Sept. 23\, as desired\, with preliminary sessions Sept. 22 and a wrap-up evaluation Sept. 24.\n\n\nTamara Sherrill discusses native cultivars 9 a.m. Sept. 23 at the free Fruitful Farmer Conference at Waiohuli community center. The Maui Nui Botanical Gardens executive director is shown with an endemic Hame (Antidesma platyphyllum) tree\, also known as Ha’āmaile and Mehamehame.\n\n\nAn expert discussing indigenous and endemic Hawaiian crops will highlight “Puwalu O Ka Hua Mahi‘ai” — The Fruitful Farmer Conference from Sept. 22 to 24 at Waiohuli community center at the bottom of Lau‘ie Drive. Tamara Sherrill\, executive director of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens\, will speak at 9 a.m. on native cultivars of kalo\, ko\, ‘uala\, ‘awa — taro\, sugarcane\, sweet potato and kava\, respectively — and other crops.\n\nMichael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen of Lapa‘au Farm in Olinda will keynote a noon luncheon on the topic of natural farming. Upcountry rancher Jerry Sakugawa will follow with a 2 p.m. question-and-answer forum on the challenges and expense of the cattle-ranching industry.\n\n\nNatural farmer Michael Marchand keynotes noon lunch Sept. 24 at the free Fruitful Farmer Conference at Waiohuli community center with his Lapa`au Farm partner Devin Fredericksen. A former collegiate lacrosse player and Kahului public school art teacher\, Marchand promotes permaculture and self-sustainability.\n\n\nAn added conference component is a two-night camp-out allowing Maui\ncommunity members\, especially beneficiaries awaiting Hawaiian homelands\, to bond with Upcountry farm- and ranch lands\, and with one another. Attendees should bring camp gear and potluck drinks\, side dishes and desserts; organizers will provide entrees.\n\nSee the complete conference schedule at website www.paupena.org or www.waiohuli.org\, or contact Kekoa Enomoto at (808) 276-2713 or kenomoto1@hawaii.rr.com. The nonprofit Pā‘upena Community Development Corporation presents this event with funding by USDA.\n\n\nPā‘upena co-founder Norman Abihai shows ‘awa bushes on his verdant one-acre Waiohuli homestead farm.\nPā‘upena Community Development Corporation presents Puwalu ‘O Ka Hua Mahi‘āi — The Fruitful Farmer Conference/two-night campout 9/22/17 through 9/24/17 at He Piko No Waiohuli — Waiohuli community center\, to promote agriculture and ranching among native Hawaiians on Maui. Open to the public\, activities and presentations involve\, as follows: \nFriday 9/22/17:  \n\n9 to 11 a.m. Tour Norman Abihai’s homestead farm replete with edible crops\, including 15 mango varieties\, 96 ‘Ahulua St.\, Waiohuli homestead (turn right at bottom of Lau‘ie Drive\, go half block\, park on street). \n12 noon — Lunch\, camp setup\, fellowship and ku‘i‘āi (pound poi for supper) with taro cultivator/woodworker Norman Abihai.\n7 p.m. — Video on Norman Abihai’s homestead farming operation\, followed by kanikapila.\n\nSaturday 9/23/17:  \n\n6:14 a.m. Chant up the sun with cultural practitioners\, optional; stage 5:50 a.m. at hale halawai (traditional structure).\n9 a.m. Hawaiian cultivars ‘ike/verification/propagation with Maui Nui Botanical Gardens executive director Tamara Sherrill.\n10:30 a.m. Disposition of/plans for HC&S former sugar lands.**\n12 noon luncheon keynote on natural farming by Michael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen.\n2 p.m. Question-and-answer forum on the challenges and expense of the cattle-ranching industry\, with Jerry Sakugawa.\n3 p.m. Ag/pastoral community design with a Department of Hawaiian Home Lands planner.**\n4:30 p.m. Global Indigenous Housing Solutions with Whangataki William Parata of Aotearoa.**\n\nSunday 9/24/17:  \n\nPuwalu assessments/wrapup\, followed by camp breakdown\, brunch\, site cleanup.\n\n— — — \nEvent presenters/activity leaders and background are\, as follows:  \n\nNorman Abihai\, Waiohuli homestead farmer\, woodworker\, retired heavy-equipment operator; will lead ku‘i‘āi (poi-pounding) workshop.\nKekoa Enomoto\, cultural practitioner\, kahuna kakalaleo (chanter of pule\, with same status as kumu hula)\, Hālau Nā Hanona Kūlike ‘O Pi‘ilani; will lead pule/oli.\nMichael Marchand and Devin Fredericksen are partners/co-owners of Lapa‘au Farm in Olinda\, Maui; keynote presenters.\nWhangataki William Parata\, principal with Global Indigenous Group; presenter.\nJerry Sakugawa\, principal of James C. Sakugawa & Sons Ranch; presenter.\nTamara Sherrill\, executive director of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens; presenter.\n\n— — — \nSummaries of event seminars\, workshops or other opportunities:  \n\nPu‘u O Kali hike allows participants to explore a 200-acre exclosure showcasing one of the archipelago’s last extant dryland forests\, replete with endemic/indigenous native trees\, shrubs and plants.\nFellowship and ku‘i‘āi (poi-pounding) session is hands-on\, interactive recreation of a traditional activity by Native Hawaiian kūpuna.\nVideo on a homestead farming operation explores an impressive one-acre farmlet teaming with edible produce\, including 15 mango varieties.\nChant up the sun\, to recreate Native Hawaiian cultural practice on the slopes of Haleakala\, “The House of the Sun.”\nHawaiian cultivars lecture presents an expert speaking on kalo\, kō\, ‘uala\, ‘awa and other native crops.\nHC&S former sugar lands presentation reveals a corporate land-use management plan to repurpose plantation acreage.\nQuestion-and-answer forum on ranching allows attendees to interface with a two-decade lessee of 5\,000 acres of homestead farm/ranchlands.\nAg/pastoral community-design workshop is a sovereign first step for wait-list beneficiaries to envision and realize their own homestead future.\nGlobal Indigenous Housing Solutions presentation is by a Maori affordable-housing developer\, who wants to introduce his New Zealand-based operations/techniques to Hawai`i.\nTwo-night campout allows attendees and `ohana members to bond with the Upcountry farm/ranchlands and with one another.\nPuwalu assessments/wrap-up session allows organizers and participants to make input on event improvements and to plan follow-up activities.\n\n**Possible sessions. Schedule subject to change.
URL:https://www.paupena.org/event/fruitful-farmer-confab/
LOCATION:Waiohuli Community Center\, 881 Lau‘ie Drive\, Kula\, HI\, 96790
CATEGORIES:Community,Farming,Hawaiian Homestead,Ranching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.paupena.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Norman-Abihai.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="P%C4%81%E2%80%98upena CDC":MAILTO:kenomoto1@hawaii.rr.com
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