Kalani High School has started a very interesting sustainability curriculum at their school, and we are staging the event this weekend to help progress their burgeoning program. This is the pilot program for the DOE sustainability initiative and anything deemed successful from their program could potentially be instituted in schools throughout the state. They started this program a little over a year ago and have already got organic gardens, aquaponics, and even egg-laying chickens. In fact, they sell some of their produce to Kokua market! They are creating a little agricultural oasis in an otherwise urban school district.
Three of us from the University of Hawai’i School of Architecture have been working with the stakeholders for this program to see how our design skills might help to progress their goals, and they expressed the need for a plant nursery. What we designed for them is a fairly simple outdoor temporary structure that will serve as a space for the kids to plant seeds and store keiki plants while they mature enough to be transplanted into garden beds.

Your fellow fly junkie,
Laurel Swan
2 comments:
Sounds like a great project! Have you connected with the Kokua Foundation ? I think Kamehameha Kapalama has something going on also. Try contacting Gail Fujimoto in the Midkiff Learning Center.
Soooo, the weather has been CRAZY and we have made the decision to postpone the event by one week. The new event date will be MARCH 17. Hopefully the new, less-soggy date will work for you! We would love to see you out there!
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