Hawaii Farmers Union United March Meeting

Tavares Center Pool Room -Pukalani Tuesday March 27th 6-9pm   Doors open now at 5:30pm   Dinner now at 6:00 pm, meeting begins at 7pm sharp!               LocaVore Potluck:  Come and share the Maui abundance of what you prepare and grow!!! Bring a dish OR Dinner is $5 for Members, $10 for Non Members. SIgn up as a member and dinner is on us!   Schedule: 6:00pm-7:00pm   LocaVore Potluck   6:50pm-7:00pm   Evening Announcements ~ Vincent Mina      7:00pm-7:10pm   Chefs Corner ~ Jana McMahon                               "Everything Mulberries"  7:10pm-7:20pm   Farmers Almanac ~ Harriette Witt "Spring Equinox"   7:20pm-7:30pm   Produce Scoop ~ Evan Ryan "all about Ulu"    7:30pm-7:55pm   "Grow Some Good & Maui School Garden Network"                             ~ Lehn Huff, Nio Kindla,Rebecah Kuby, Kirk Surry,                               and Kathy Becklin    7:55pm-8:10pm   Helen Nielson- The Outlaw Queen of                               East Maui Bees    8:10pm-8:30pm   Seth Raabe- Natural Farming Egg Shell                               Calcium Ferment     8:30pm- 9pm       Networking        Produce Swap: Bring your home grown farm produce, seeds or plant starts to share and swap with others. Place it on the table in the back when you arrive. Introduction to the School Garden movement The school garden movement is thriving throughout Hawaii and creating real-life, hands-on educational programs for students of all ages. Learn about programs that teach local students and their families to grow nutritious, organic fruits and vegetables - on any budget, in any community or living space.      Nio Kindla, Kirk Surry, Kathy Becklin, and Kerry Wilkins, co-founders of Grow Some Good - Educational School Gardens on Maui (www.GrowSomeGood.org) - will discuss school gardens as learning centers for new gardeners; how school gardens inspire better nutrition choices and greater access to organic fruits and veggies for an entire community; and how to get funding to help fund your community-driven garden projects.     As part of the evening, 'Project: Plant It!' volunteers will share ready-to-transplant organic and heirloom garden starts, planted by student gardeners at Kihei Elementary School and Lokelani Intermediate School.          Note: We aim to have a "trash free" event and encourage folks to bring their own bowl and utensils. And, if you like, a comfortable chair. It was standing room only last month!

Think Abundance!

Maui Farmer's Union United Monthly Event Aloha all, WOW, this meeting will be rockin' it to stimulate, empower, inspire, and educate our community in holistic systems of being well with Aloha for the land. And our HFUU State Board will be present! Way to Grow Maui.... see ya there, Vince

Tavares Center Pool Room -Pukalani

Tuesday Feb 28th 6-9pm

doors open at 5:45pm

Dinner 6:30 pm, meeting begins at 7pm sharp!

LocaVore Potluck: Come and share the Maui abundance of what you prepare and grow!!!
Bring a dish OR Dinner is $5 for Members, $10 for Non Members.
SIgn up as a member and dinner is on us!

Food Contest: The theme is: "Winter Savory"
Enter your dish to win prizes (Bring your entry by 5:45 Judging at 6pm)
Prizes for 1st,2nd & 3rd place.

Fabulous Meeting planned! All your usual favorites
plus the HFUU Board members will be present! see full schedule below.

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm- LocaVore Potluck ~ Great meals! Be creative and add to
the abundance, it's your the event!!!
6:50pm-7:00pm Evening Announcements ~ Vincent Mina www.MauiGrown.com

7:00pm-7:10pm Chefs Corner ~ Chef Justin Pardo from Market Fresh Bistro
Pickling Vegatables 101

7:10pm-7:20pm Produce Scoop ~ Ryan Eareheart from Mana Foods- shares about
Sugarcane Benefits and Uses
7:20pm-7:30pm Farmers Almanac ~ Harriette Witt www.passengerplanet.com
7:30pm-8:00pm Kapua Sproat, UH Law School Professor & Issac Moriwake of Earthjustice "Protecting the public trust doctrine and water law in Hawaii."
8:00pm-8:10pm Legislative Update ~ Bill Greenleaf
8:10pm-8:25pm Introductions of the HFUU State Board
8:25pm-8:45pm Evan Ryan ~ Soil Building 101
8:45pm- 9pm Seth Raabe ~ Demonstration on making Fermented
Plant Grow Juice

Meeting Pau

Produce Swap:

Bring your home grown farm produce, seeds or plant starts to share and swap with others. Place it on the table in the back when you arrive.

Mahalo! to all of our sponsors: Hawaiian Moons, Down to Earth, Mana Foods, Whole Foods, Marmac Ace, Greenleaf Farm, Maui Biochar, Susan Teton, Lehuahana Vander Velde, Evan Ryan and Maui Aloha Association.

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

Note: We aim to have a "trash free" event and encourage folks to bring their own bowl and utensils. And, if you like, a comfortable chair. It was standing room only last month!

Agricultural Crash Course History

The National Farmers Union came out to help the farmers decades ago. The Hawaii Farmers Union United has come along and become such an exciting alternative to past programs and groups. The Hawaii Farmers Union United is at this very moment working with it's members to prevent bills that endanger the small farmers in the name of food safety. Large corporate interests are influencing the government by slipping through bills and making laws that come under the guise of food safety and yet are just a cover for creating a world where the small farmer is an outlaw and the public is expected to support the large corporations.

Look at the food and produce you get from a small farmer, it looks like food always has. Look at processed foods and how they barely resemble what food is. Look at the ingredients and you may not recognize the ingredients on the packages of foods the 99% is expected to consume.

Sickness, obesity have become the norm. High health cost, high prices and low income and it's like we are back in the 1930's and 40's.

I would recommend you sit down with some popcorn (non GMO) and watch this movie.

The Makai Inn and their Aquaponics

It was a wet and wild day today and instead of staying indoors, I went for a ride to Lahaina and visited The Makai Inn and their aquaponics system. I found them online this past summer in my search for information on building an aquaponics system. Six months later, with my systems producing food, I got to see theirs. I didn't shoot any video or take pictures today, how unlike me, but here is some video from their youtube site that was taken last July, 2011. The plants have grown and changed some.