Maui Farmers Union United October Meeting Agenda

Here is the agenda for the October Hawaii Farmers Union United Meeting.

This Tuesday we have a very special guest attending who will speak to the "Future Prosperity of Hawaii....."

Make it a point to be on time for this presentation at 6:45.....with Q&A

Dinner will be at 6:30 sharp.

Maui Farmers Union United Meeting

Tavares Center Pool Room Oct. 25, 2011

Tuesday nite doors open 6:00pm

Dinner opening circle 6:30 pm sharp

LocaVore Potluck & Produce Swap

Share your Maui Abundance for dinner...

Bring something you grew and go home with someone else's produce...

Great Business donations to go home with from DTE, Hawaiian Moons, Whole Foods, Mana Foods, Maui Bio-Char, Greenleaf Farm.

(If you have a business that wants to donate a prize to the cause please contact Melissa at) windspiritm@mac.com

Meeting Agenda

6:30pm-7:00pm- LocaVore Potluck Great Meal!!! Be creative and

add to the abundance, your the event!!!

"Its all about growing, sharing and being nourished by our food"

6:45pm-7:00pm Special Guest- Future prosperity of Hawaii
7:00pm-7:10pm Chefs Corner-Suki Bergeron-Squash in season

7:10pm-7:20pm Produce Scoop-Ryan Eareheart - Mana Foods

7:20pm-7:30pm Astronomy in Agriculture- HarrietteWitt-

www.passengerplanet.com/

7:30pm-7:45pm MFU Website Update- Lehua VanderVelde

http://mauifarmersunionunited.weebly.com/

7:45pm-8:00pm Education- Greg Hopkins- Making Compost

8:00pm-8:30pm Member Input- Share Ideas & Direction

8:30-pm-9:00pm Member Network/Meeting Pau

PRODUCE SWAP:

Bring your home grown farm produce, seeds or plant starts to share and swap with others.

"Remember its all about celebrating our communities food"

MauiPonics Experiments in Aquaculture

While my MauiPonics version of Aquaponics may not feed the world, or even a family, the on-going knowledge is great. 

It is also interesting and the sound of the water cycling, quite soothing.

 Still trying to figure out the whole nutrient issue, but at about 15 inches, this cucumber was a surprise to me.

I never really let lettuce go to seed before and I would not have recognized my lettuce gone to seed (by the cucumber above) as the one I got from an aquaponics workshop below. I did get a few dollars worth of my own seed out of it.

Various experiments going on with plants, fish, ebb & flow systems using water and air pumping.