Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Kipahulu Farm Tour/Workshop is selling out/Hawaii Healing Garden Festival
Farm Tour to Kipahulu has now 17 seats left to sell out!
Theres a price for registering and for not registering.
Choose in youll be happy you did!
Thank You all who are registered its going to be a great tour/workshop
We had a booth yesterday at Hawaii Healing Garden Festival!
We got to experience firsthand the holistic vendor services there.
Were very happy they are going to be vendors at our Body and Soil Conference Jan 16,17th.
Health conscious folks attended and made for provocative conversations and relationship building.
Kudos to event organizers of HHG Michael and Katie for all their beautiful energy in building community translating into a life nurturing day!!!
They are doing essential work to support our communities well being!!!
Theres a price for registering and for not registering.
Choose in youll be happy you did!
Thank You all who are registered its going to be a great tour/workshop
We had a booth yesterday at Hawaii Healing Garden Festival!
We got to experience firsthand the holistic vendor services there.
Were very happy they are going to be vendors at our Body and Soil Conference Jan 16,17th.
Health conscious folks attended and made for provocative conversations and relationship building.
Kudos to event organizers of HHG Michael and Katie for all their beautiful energy in building community translating into a life nurturing day!!!
They are doing essential work to support our communities well being!!!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Maui Daily Show/ Kipahulu Farm Tour
FARM TOUR,FARM TOUR,FARM TOUR..... WOW this tour has taken on a life of its own. Thankfully the community of Maui has embraced our efforts and are coming out to support us.
Oahu also is showing up in support signing up 7 people to fly over for this rare glimpse of these collective farms. Mahalo Oahu!!!
We only have 28 spots left before we sell out. If you value ecological practices in a diverse exotic setting then this tour/workshop is for you!
Having a soil consultant on hand will give folks an in depth look at the critical path taken to restore and sustain vitality on their land.
MAUI DAILY SHOW!!!
Here is the link to see Vincent Mina the founder of Maui Aloha Aina Association hosting the Maui Daily Show on AKAKU http://www.akaku.org/ondemand/?v=7Ka6R
These are segments filmed by AKAKU certified videographers, introduced by Vincent.
Lets all support AKAKU its a great/essential community service!!
Monday, October 5, 2009
2009 farm tour and Conference 2010
Wow there is alot happening around ecological agriculture these days and rightfully so, with the dysfunction of a food system that has been exposed on film by the movies King Corn and Food Inc.
Folks are in fear about a swine flu and type 2 diabetes is rampant throughout the USA.
We are excited in our keeping our eye on the bigger picture as to our educational outreach and how that can assist to shape the direction of agriculture in our county and state. AINA MOMONA Fattening of the environment..........
Here are some recent photos of the farmers market up at Eddie Tam which by the way is a happening with incredible diversity of Local grown produce available to the early worm on Saturday between 6 and 9:30am.
Our upcoming farm tour Oct 24th to Kipahulu
A site visit to Waiaha Farms in Holualoa just Mauka (uplands) of Kona. A beautiful 100 acre farm utilizing the implementation of animals into the system of agriculture they have developing there. They are going to be hosting our 2010 big Isle version of "Body and Soil Health Conference on Jan 23,24 just after our Maui event Jan 16,17,2010.
A recent visit to the big isle for the HOFA annual meeting award winners with President Franz Weber Sarah Townsend, Certification Coordinator
Deborah Ward, Quality Control Officer, Certification Associate
Two ladies well deserved of the great work they do for the Organic community
Folks are in fear about a swine flu and type 2 diabetes is rampant throughout the USA.
We are excited in our keeping our eye on the bigger picture as to our educational outreach and how that can assist to shape the direction of agriculture in our county and state. AINA MOMONA Fattening of the environment..........
Here are some recent photos of the farmers market up at Eddie Tam which by the way is a happening with incredible diversity of Local grown produce available to the early worm on Saturday between 6 and 9:30am.
Our upcoming farm tour Oct 24th to Kipahulu
A site visit to Waiaha Farms in Holualoa just Mauka (uplands) of Kona. A beautiful 100 acre farm utilizing the implementation of animals into the system of agriculture they have developing there. They are going to be hosting our 2010 big Isle version of "Body and Soil Health Conference on Jan 23,24 just after our Maui event Jan 16,17,2010.
A recent visit to the big isle for the HOFA annual meeting award winners with President Franz Weber Sarah Townsend, Certification Coordinator
Deborah Ward, Quality Control Officer, Certification Associate
Two ladies well deserved of the great work they do for the Organic community
Monday, August 24, 2009
Farm Tour October 24th
Aloha All Just back from a weekend in Kipahulu Maui meeting with the folks of the four farms for our upcoming farm tour. Revisiting the tour we had in 2002, "Backside Farm Tour"
The intention is on Oct 24th taking up to 100 people in small buses around the backside to revisit these special ecological Organic farms.
A special access into four organic farms in wetland taro,vegetable,fruit and timber bamboo production, with extensive use of nitrogen fixing cover crops and ground covers. Making a strong case as to what is possible for our island home to be self sustaining in food and fiber.
There will be a soil consultant facilitator to analyze the test taken and offer a comparison of analysis that were taken back in 2002 as to where the farms have evolved.
We also are very excited about our upcoming conference in January that will be on three islands this year. Maui, Big Isle and Kauai. Details will be forthcoming on our website soon.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Kauai 4th of July weekend
Aloha we were on Kauai this fourth of July weekend.
This photo of Kupuna Nancy Kobayashi with three quarters of our ohana, on her beach front Hanalei property.
How beautiful the Orgainc Lo'i of the Garden Isle as seen in our friends Chris and Dimi farm.!
This photo of Kupuna Nancy Kobayashi with three quarters of our ohana, on her beach front Hanalei property.
How beautiful the Orgainc Lo'i of the Garden Isle as seen in our friends Chris and Dimi farm.! 
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Our Next Steps!
Aloha from Pennsylvania with the Summer Solstice just around the corner!!!
We recently had a day long meeting with Jerry Brunetti and Dr. Paul Hepperly at the Rodale Institute. These brilliant leaders of ecological agriculture were inspiring to be around, and we are fortunate to have them as two of four presenters for our next Body and Soil Conference.
Our time together was very productive in viewing all of the trials being done there around cover cropping, composting and bio char soil remediation. Setting the tone and content of this next conference, which will be Jan 16 and 17th on Maui.
The theme being, how to beneficially colonize while understanding, the microbial world of our Body and the Soil.
We then will be taking it to the Big Island and Kauai so folks from outer islands can hear these provocative presentations too. Doc Hepperly shared with us that we all need to "have a sense of humus" and create "global worming" in developing our agricultural point of view!!!
We are also hoping to have a "Backside Farm Tour" to Kipahulu, Maui in October. Revisiting that area from last time we did in 2002. We will be calling on our data base of folks to assist in making it so
It was a great time then and will be again with us all going around Ulupalakua side in small buses and visiting these jewels of Biological farms!!! Stay tuned for more news on the details of that event.
We also went to see the premier of the movie "Food, Inc." in downtown Phila.
Wow what a powerful flic. This industrial food system we have is crashing down under its own weight of dysfunction. Its up to us to help that along at the cash register, with our choosing to by local grown while finding out how it was grown. Only supporting a system that feeds us nutrient rich diversity of food, while building vitality in the environment.
Were so charged by what is possible in shifting the awareness on Maui to play a much bigger game agriculturally. We have been focused on building our next conference, followed by the agricultural summit into being a guiding light to achieve some attainable goals, employing proper agricultural protocols that feed back into a system that produces vitality into our food supply and environment.
We also envision anonymous financial support for our mission so that we can move forward a ecological food, energy and water system for Maui, that will represent the ability of what can be done. We are now on the threshold of a dream to actualize Maui as the paradise on earth that we all know it can be.
Hold that vision translating into your actions, whether its growing your own food or just appreciating those whose actions are putting "the culture back into agriculture".
We recently had a day long meeting with Jerry Brunetti and Dr. Paul Hepperly at the Rodale Institute. These brilliant leaders of ecological agriculture were inspiring to be around, and we are fortunate to have them as two of four presenters for our next Body and Soil Conference.
Our time together was very productive in viewing all of the trials being done there around cover cropping, composting and bio char soil remediation. Setting the tone and content of this next conference, which will be Jan 16 and 17th on Maui.
The theme being, how to beneficially colonize while understanding, the microbial world of our Body and the Soil.
We then will be taking it to the Big Island and Kauai so folks from outer islands can hear these provocative presentations too. Doc Hepperly shared with us that we all need to "have a sense of humus" and create "global worming" in developing our agricultural point of view!!!
We are also hoping to have a "Backside Farm Tour" to Kipahulu, Maui in October. Revisiting that area from last time we did in 2002. We will be calling on our data base of folks to assist in making it so
It was a great time then and will be again with us all going around Ulupalakua side in small buses and visiting these jewels of Biological farms!!! Stay tuned for more news on the details of that event.
We also went to see the premier of the movie "Food, Inc." in downtown Phila.
Wow what a powerful flic. This industrial food system we have is crashing down under its own weight of dysfunction. Its up to us to help that along at the cash register, with our choosing to by local grown while finding out how it was grown. Only supporting a system that feeds us nutrient rich diversity of food, while building vitality in the environment.Were so charged by what is possible in shifting the awareness on Maui to play a much bigger game agriculturally. We have been focused on building our next conference, followed by the agricultural summit into being a guiding light to achieve some attainable goals, employing proper agricultural protocols that feed back into a system that produces vitality into our food supply and environment.
We also envision anonymous financial support for our mission so that we can move forward a ecological food, energy and water system for Maui, that will represent the ability of what can be done. We are now on the threshold of a dream to actualize Maui as the paradise on earth that we all know it can be.
Hold that vision translating into your actions, whether its growing your own food or just appreciating those whose actions are putting "the culture back into agriculture".
Friday, May 1, 2009
May Day News from Ma'a
Weve been busy working on several fronts.
Look first at this all Organic local grown meal we prepared, yea baby!!!! We had fresh fish caught by our friend we cleaned and baked. Organic steamed green beans, Organic Avocado, Organic Garden Squash steamed, Organic salad with our compost grown sunflower greens, and Organic sweet potato. It was so ono!!!!
Next some great news, in our testimonies to the County of Maui Council on the budget for fiscal 09,10 we requested and received unanimous support for a separate line item in funding from the county.
It still needs to pass through two readings under a full council yet we are hopeful they will continue to support what they all agreed to.
What this means is that Maui Aloha Aina Association will no longer be under the farm bureau in getting our funding from the county. Also the county is going to be funding us to hold an agricultural summit to development an ecological whole system approach in the formation of an action plan for our islands food security and sustainability.
What is heartening for us is the county seeing the value of what we are doing and how we need as an island to be moving in a direction that will truly sustain our physical and environmental well being. Were also in the process of building our next "Body and Soil" conference slated for the middle of January 2010. Stay tuned for more details on this tradition of a very provocative event for Maui.
Sharing some very sad news we put out in a newsletter in January was the passing of Charles "Chuck" Walters founder of ACRES USA and an icon of eco-agriculture.
When we last posted our blog it was after the ACRES Conference where we last saw and spent time with Chuck. We feel so very fortunate to have had a personal friendship with this humble yet highly educated man who stood up and spoke up for the small family farm and all of our small diverse farms that make up the back bone of our eco-logical agricultural scene.
His humor and wit along with his pointed "view from the country" will truly will be missed.
Look first at this all Organic local grown meal we prepared, yea baby!!!! We had fresh fish caught by our friend we cleaned and baked. Organic steamed green beans, Organic Avocado, Organic Garden Squash steamed, Organic salad with our compost grown sunflower greens, and Organic sweet potato. It was so ono!!!!
Next some great news, in our testimonies to the County of Maui Council on the budget for fiscal 09,10 we requested and received unanimous support for a separate line item in funding from the county.
It still needs to pass through two readings under a full council yet we are hopeful they will continue to support what they all agreed to.
What this means is that Maui Aloha Aina Association will no longer be under the farm bureau in getting our funding from the county. Also the county is going to be funding us to hold an agricultural summit to development an ecological whole system approach in the formation of an action plan for our islands food security and sustainability.
What is heartening for us is the county seeing the value of what we are doing and how we need as an island to be moving in a direction that will truly sustain our physical and environmental well being. Were also in the process of building our next "Body and Soil" conference slated for the middle of January 2010. Stay tuned for more details on this tradition of a very provocative event for Maui.
Sharing some very sad news we put out in a newsletter in January was the passing of Charles "Chuck" Walters founder of ACRES USA and an icon of eco-agriculture.
When we last posted our blog it was after the ACRES Conference where we last saw and spent time with Chuck. We feel so very fortunate to have had a personal friendship with this humble yet highly educated man who stood up and spoke up for the small family farm and all of our small diverse farms that make up the back bone of our eco-logical agricultural scene.
His humor and wit along with his pointed "view from the country" will truly will be missed.
Thankfully and selflessly he left behind a legacy of holding space for eco agricultural leaders in Kinsey, Brunetti, Zimmer, Shaffer, Salatin, Anderson the list goes on and on to continue to blaze the educational trail he began back when he founded ACRES USA in the early seventies. While his son Fred who has been running the operations of the publication and conferences continues with the standards and values set by Chuck.
Into a future that will serve as a beacon guiding us all into an eco logical relationship with the natural world in our agricultural evolution of practice.
Our Ma'a board, Vincent Mina, Jim Hall, and Irene Plunkett with Ann Walters, Chucks wife and matriarch of the publication and conferences.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
ACRES USA 2008 "In the Books"
Well its in the books the 2008 ACRES USA conference is now history.
(Chuck Walters enjoying some of sunflower greens we brought from our farm)
WOW what a lazier beam expression of agriculture, or as Charles "Chuck" Walters
shared this event being the university and the presenters being the professors of what the true essence of Agriculture is and will be as we move into the future.
Jerry Brunetti was honored with the ACRES USA lifetime award for his contributions to agriculture. The attendance was over 1200 and many here for the first time. We got to hear presentations from ACRES leaders who also have presented at past Ma'a conferences.
(Chuck Walters enjoying some of sunflower greens we brought from our farm)
WOW what a lazier beam expression of agriculture, or as Charles "Chuck" Walters
shared this event being the university and the presenters being the professors of what the true essence of Agriculture is and will be as we move into the future.
Jerry Brunetti was honored with the ACRES USA lifetime award for his contributions to agriculture. The attendance was over 1200 and many here for the first time. We got to hear presentations from ACRES leaders who also have presented at past Ma'a conferences. With the likes of Bob Shaffer, Will Winter, Richard Olree, Gary Zimmer, Neal Kinsey and Jerry Brunetti along with great keynotes from new faces with a long history of contributions in Agriculture.
First time presenting Michael Melendrez from New Mexico gave a great presentation of the soil food web and wants to come present on Maui at the Ma'a conference. Were feeling that for our next conference slated for January of 2010, we will be focused on the body and soil ecology in micro-flora with hopefully having two of the four presenters being Michael Melendrez and gut health with
Natasha Campbell McBride the star of the Westin Price Conference this past November.
I've been using the pro-biotic she formulated the results in support of my physiology have been impressive. This has me very excited since both are strong advocates of how the micro-flora in the body and the soil rules the roost. Something all persuasions of growers whether a farmer or gardener needs to pay attention to along with those who just want to eat and be well.
(By the way were figuring to have a backside Organic farm tour to Kipahulu in October of 09, that will be a follow up from the provocative one we experienced in 2002, called the "Backside Tour" where we chartered small buses and drove backside around Ulupalakua to Kipahulu and visited 4 Organic farms. It will be fortuitous to see how they have grown and developed over the years.)
All in all ACRES was truly a great event, we hope to bring all that we experienced back to the folks on Maui so that others can benefit from all of the scientific based expertise we were exposed to.
We also were treated to the premier of the documentary "Food Fight" and are hoping to have it premiered on Maui as we did with King Corn before its release to the public. Stay tuned to this one it was a great film showing what is being done and the value that is being created in growing our food biologically.
First time presenting Michael Melendrez from New Mexico gave a great presentation of the soil food web and wants to come present on Maui at the Ma'a conference. Were feeling that for our next conference slated for January of 2010, we will be focused on the body and soil ecology in micro-flora with hopefully having two of the four presenters being Michael Melendrez and gut health with
Natasha Campbell McBride the star of the Westin Price Conference this past November.I've been using the pro-biotic she formulated the results in support of my physiology have been impressive. This has me very excited since both are strong advocates of how the micro-flora in the body and the soil rules the roost. Something all persuasions of growers whether a farmer or gardener needs to pay attention to along with those who just want to eat and be well.
(By the way were figuring to have a backside Organic farm tour to Kipahulu in October of 09, that will be a follow up from the provocative one we experienced in 2002, called the "Backside Tour" where we chartered small buses and drove backside around Ulupalakua to Kipahulu and visited 4 Organic farms. It will be fortuitous to see how they have grown and developed over the years.)
All in all ACRES was truly a great event, we hope to bring all that we experienced back to the folks on Maui so that others can benefit from all of the scientific based expertise we were exposed to.
We also were treated to the premier of the documentary "Food Fight" and are hoping to have it premiered on Maui as we did with King Corn before its release to the public. Stay tuned to this one it was a great film showing what is being done and the value that is being created in growing our food biologically.
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