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Mushrooms Ho!

The new How to Grow Your Own Mushrooms series began on October 25th with a big group of 19 participants who are busy tending their first shiitake mushroom patches. Mycologists – send us your kit photos as they grow! Next

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Gleaning Project is HAPPENING! Meet-up Thursdays 9am

Farm Gleaner crew meets up 9am-noon. Sunday Farmers Market Volunteers, 8:30-11:30 and 11:30-2:30 to help get the word out.  Visit the new Food Bus Blog www.one-island.org/foodbus Follow us on Facebook

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Sustainability Innovation Challenge Award – Deadline August 31st

Sustainability is a journey, not a final destination. Many Big Island residents have already embarked on the journey and we invite our community to show us the ingenious, creative, and thought provoking products, designs and practices that local Hawaii residents are creating to solve

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Rural School Meeting

Come learn about pre-school – 12th grade rural schooling options for South Kona on Sunday, July 15th, 1-5pm Email hawaii@one-island.org to RSVP  

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July Events Calendar

Aloha – we have so many great programs going on at One Island that our SAME CANOE NEWSLETTER is the best way to keep abreast. Please click on the NEWSLETTER link in the upper left of this page to get

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Where does Kona’s Water come from? Tues. June 26th

This evening presentation will introduce a watershed view of Kona’s water system, with an emphasis on South Kona. Where are our reservoirs and wells? How do the well systems transport water to us and what happens in the event of

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SolFest is Saturday the 23rd

 The YES! Summer Youth Camp is going strong with raised bed, renewable energy, music, superfoods, swimming, fermented foods, electricity experiments, energy efficiency challenges, pollinator garden, and art projects underway so far. By Saturday they’ll have filled out the new Ancient

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YES!! Summer Camp June 18-23

The YES!! Camp invites 10-18 year olds to join us at the One Island Sustainable Living Center in Honaunau for a 5-day camp that will engage students in 10 learning activity programs on a 10 acre organic farm overlooking Kealakekua

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Worm Bins

One Island’s Buying Club is adding worm compost bins to our discount group buy offerings. These great 3 tray units allow you to turn paper and kitchen scraps into excellent fertilizers – worm castings, worm tea, and worm tea water.

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Same Canoe Local Food Workshops and Events

Grow Your Own Food for Healthy Green Living ! 2012 Same Canoe Events Fri Jan 13 Introduction to Same Canoe 9-11 Sat Jan 14 Medicine at Your Feet 9-3 Fri Jan 27 Ancient Hawaiian Sustainability 9-12 Fri Feb 3 Starting

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