Maui Farmers United One Year Anniversary Spring Equinox Meeting

Maui Farmers United One Year Anniversary Spring Equinox Meeting
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 6 - 9:00pm

Pukalani, Tavares Center Pool Room

Enter our Food Contest to win Prizes !!!

There will be Health Food Store Gift Cards (Totaling $180) Mahalo, Hawaiian Moons, Down to Earth and Whole Foods!

2yr. subscription to Edible Hawaiian Islands Magazine (Value $52) Mahalo Dania Katz

Enter your Best Dish, using local grown produce, and/or meat as part of the dish.

Contest Details! Those entering need to register first either by pre-registering with Irene before the 21st, 357-3877 or show up by 5:45 pm. on the 22nd with your dish along with your written recipe ingredients.

Judging will begin at 6:15 sharp! One Dish entry per person. Two local Chefs will judge dishes on a point system. 1-10 pts for presentation, 1-10 pts for flavor, and 1-10 pts for creative use of local grown ingredients, for a total of 30 potential pts. Gift Cards and other prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners. Judging will be completed by 6:30 pm.

$1 raffle tickets can win you these following prizes, one of two baskets of local fruits.(value $30 each) Mahalo Mana Foods..... Bags of Bio Char Mahalo Ricky Apana...Bags of Feather Meal Mahalo Crop Protection Service

Localvore Potluck, Produce & Seed Swap:

Bring your home/farm grown produce for display.... then swap produce, seeds, cuttings and starts at the end of the meeting!

Doors Open to public 6 pm
6:30pm - 7:00 - Farmers Feast "It's all about the food"
All are welcome & encouraged to participate in this festive meal of good will
Be Creative its your event!!!
Grow, prepare and share a local grown dish, if you can't bring anything to share to eat, then either donate $5, or come early and set up or stay after to clean up.
This is a trash free event,
please bring your traveling cup, plate and fork!

7:00-8:30 - General Meeting
8:30-9:00 - Open Dialogue "Talk Story" 

Meeting Schedule:

7:00-7:05 - Welcome, Opening- Bill Greenleaf Marta Greenleaf <gleafs@hawaiiantel.net>

7:05-7:15 - Haiku El. School Garden- Lehn Huff & Student MSGN@hawaii.rr.com

7:15-7:25 - Chef's Corner - Justin Pardo Market Fresh Bistro, marketfreshbistro@gmail.com
7:25-7:30 - Produce Scoop- Ryan Eareheart-Mana Foods Produce Manager, vegihead@hotmail.com
7:30-7:35 - Food Contest Awards- Irene iplunkett@msn.com & Marta Marta Greenleaf gleafs@hawaiiantel.net

7:35-7:45 -Product Labeling/Marketing -Steve Rose- (Lipoa Market) mauirose1@mac.com

7:45-8:00 - Origin of Agricultural Wisdom- Origin of Agricultural Wisdom Harriette Witt (Maui Astrologer)harriet@passengerplanet.com
8:00-8:05 - HFU Update-Just Back from the National Convention- Wayne Axelson waxelson@mac.com

8:05-8:15 - IMO (Indigenous Micro-Organism) Workshop Schedule April 29, 30-Vincent Mina maaevents@hawaii.rr.com
8:15-8:30 - Body & Soil Conference Video Short-Plant Secondary Metabolites-Jerry Brunetti www.mauigrown.com

8:30 - 9:00 Talk Story/Network - Pau!

Maui Farmers United One Year Anniversary Spring Equinox Meeting
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 6 - 9:00pm
Pukalani, Tavares Center Pool Room

Meeting Organizers:

Jim Hall

Bill & Marta Greenleaf

Wayne & Lynn Axelson

Vincent & Irene Mina

Maui Aloha Aina, 1768 Kalawi Pl, Wailuku, HI 96793, USA

Body and Soil 2011 Conference DVDs

Experience Maui Aloha Aina’s 10th annual Body and Soil Conference on DVD!

Learn about creating vibrant natural systems of the body & the soil, articulated in layman’s terms from our expert presentations!!!

Choose individually or save and buy the whole set!

Here's a list of the speakers to choose from:

1) Jerry Brunetti – “Inflammation: The Fires Within”
2) Dr. Tom Cowan – “Cancer and Auto-Immune Disease”
3) Dr. Patrick MacManaway – “Subtle Landscape Energies & Consciousness”
4) Peter Hirst – “Bio Char Presentation & Demonstration”
5) Dr. Patrick MacManaway – “Enchantment of the Agricultural Landscape”
6) Jerry Brunetti – “The Alchemy of Nature; Plant Metabolites”
7) Dr. Hoon Park, Peter Hirst, Michael Duponte- “IMO Ferments” Panel
Dr. Tom Cowan – “The True Cause of Heart Attacks”
9) Dr. Tom Cowan – “The Heart is Not a Pump”
10) Brunetti, Park, Hirst, Duponte – “3 Legs of Healthy Soil Structure” Panel
11) Dr. Patrick MacManaway – “Meetings with Dragons and Devas”
12) Jerry Brunetti – “Body & Soil Health; The Big Picture”
13) Eva Lee – “Hawaii Green Tea, Propagation, Cultivation, Processing”

A little taste of the first meeting with this video of Alex Bode, a real down to earth farmer.

Maui Farmers United One Year Anniversary Spring Equinox Meeting

Maui Farmers United One Year Anniversary Spring Equinox Meeting
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 6 - 9:00pm

Pukalani, Tavares Center Pool Room

Localvore Potluck, Produce & Seed Swap:

Bring your home/farm grown produce for display.... then swap produce, seeds, cuttings and starts at the end of the meeting!
Enter our Food Contest to win Prizes !!!

There will be Health Food Store Gift Cards (Totaling $180) Mahalo, Hawaiian Moons, Down to Earth and Whole Foods!

1yr. subscription to Edible Hawaiian Islands Magazine (Value $52) Mahalo Dania Katz

Enter your Best Dish, using local grown produce, and/or meat as part of the dish.

Contest Details! Those entering need to register first either by pre-registering with Irene before the 21st, 357-3877 or show up by 5:45 pm. on the 22nd with your dish along with your written recipe.

Judging will begin at 6:15 sharp! One Dish entry per person. Two local Chefs will judge dishes on a point system. 1-10 pts for presentation, 1-10 pts for flavor, and 1-10 pts for creative use of local grown ingredients, for a total of 30 potential pts. Gift Cards and other prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners. Judging will be completed by 6:30 pm.

$1 raffle tickets can win you one of two baskets (value $30 each) of local fruits. Mahalo Mana Foods!

Doors Open to public 6 pm
6:30pm - 7:00 - Farmers Feast "It's all about the food"
All are welcome & encouraged to participate in this festive meal of good will
Be Creative its your event!!!
Grow, prepare and share a local grown dish, if you can't bring anything to share to eat, then either donate $5, or come early and set up or stay after to clean up.
This is a trash free event,
please bring your traveling cup, plate and fork!

7:00-8:30 - General Meeting
8:30-9:00 - Open Dialogue "Talk Story"

Meeting Schedule:

7:00-7:05 - Welcome, Opening- Bill Greenleaf Marta Greenleaf <gleafs@hawaiiantel.net>

7:05-7:15 - Haiku El. School Garden- Lehn Huff & Student MSGN@hawaii.rr.com

7:15-7:25 - Chef's Corner - Justin Pardo Market Fresh Bistro, marketfreshbistro@gmail.com
7:25-7:30 - Produce Scoop- Ryan Eareheart-Mana Foods Produce Manager, vegihead@hotmail.com
7:30-7:35 - Food Contest Awards- Irene iplunkett@msn.com & Marta Marta Greenleaf gleafs@hawaiiantel.net

7:35-7:45 - Steve Rose- Product Labeling/Marketing (Lipoa Market) mauirose1@mac.com

7:45-8:00 - Harriette Witt- Origin of Agricultural Wisdom (Maui Astrologer)harriet@passengerplanet.com
8:00-8:05 - Wayne Axelson- HFU Update Just Back from the National Convention waxelson@mac.com

8:05-8:15 - Vincent Mina- IMO (Indigenous Micro-Organism) Workshop Schedule April 29, 30 maaevents@hawaii.rr.com
8:15-8:30 - Body & Soil Conference Video Short- Jerry Brunetti Plant Secondary Metabolites www.mauigrown.com

8:30 - 9:00 Talk Story/Network - Pau!

Meeting Organizers:

Jim Hall

Bill & Marta Greenleaf

Wayne & Lynn Axelson

Vincent & Irene Mina

Market Fresh Bistro's Chef Justin Pardo doing the Chef's Corner talk.

The last meeting in February of 2011, we had a great meeting as usual and our chef's corner is always a hit. Here is Chef Justin Pardo of Market Fresh Bistro talking about the restaurant, some food tips and how they support and work with Makawao School by donating money from dinners, building gardens with them and teaching children about eating healthy. Way to go Chef Justin!



Here is a clip from June, 2010 of Chef Justin from Market Fresh Bistro just after they one an award from then Mayor Hannible Tavares.

It's All About The Water Somedays

One day of being surrounded by visions of water and light.

From the ocean to the clear skies of a January Morning on Maui. The beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. To see the subject or the whole picture is a choice we make each and every moment.

Just watering the garden and the mist from a leaking hose can provide visions beyond my own imagination.

The amazing magnification of life on a microscopic scale.

Looking closely will reveal the image of the West Maui Mountains. Reaching five thousand feet into the sky and tens of miles wide, a few miles from a water droplet, and yet it's image can be seen almost fully within this droplet that itself is less than an eighth of on inch wide.

Keeping our eyes and minds open to allow the light to ferry the sight to our hearts and soul through being in the present.

 

An Appreciation for Soil

An often over-looked and under appreciated commodity is soil.  We think that anything under our feet is dirt or soil. How ignorant we can all be about the basics things in life.  I never thought much about the difference between dirt and soil, but now that I live in Kahului's predominately sand "soils", I find that the precious few spots that I actually either have real living soil that consists of organic matter and various forms of life, and the soil that I have had to grow,  there is a big difference.

The difference shows up big time when the plants go in. Some handle the sand, but being devoid of life and the inability to hold water is what sets sand and real soil apart.

Things like grapes, I never thought of growing in a place like Kahului and yet they do and give off fruit. Plants are amazing life forms.

My First Farming Experiences.

Thinking back to grade school. I remember my first experiences with growing anything, were experiments that involved comparing how seeds sprouted and grew in different types of soils.

Being a kid, it was fun to watch, but hard to wait. I usually lost interest when the report writing began.

Years later, growing up in Haiku, gardening in the Old Haiku School garden was mandatory. We worked in the gardens each day. Maybe because of our age, the lack of relative motivation or a sense that growing our own food was important, we seemed to spend the time goofing around and glad to be outside, instead of the classroom.

I did learn to eat Watercress that our cafeteria manager bought from a farm below the school and made so good that we all seemed to like it. Eating the food that was prepared and doing our time in the cafeteria kitchen had it's advantages. Mrs. Suzuki, who could be pretty strict, liked that I ate my food and worked hard in my shift, this resulted in a stop by the cafeteria on the way home to pick up a supply of cookies or what ever the left-over desert of the day was. It sure made the walk home nicer.

Now 40 years after leaving Haiku School and it's garden ceasing to exist, at least in it's original location, I was proud and honored to be able to help Haiku School build it's new school garden with the help of my grandson Jordan, and later plant it with Jordan and my granddaughter Makayla.