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Mana's Māla: Why Plant Food?

2/7/2013

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Aloha mai kākou! 
Let me start out by saying that I am not an expert in farming or horticulture or even in customary cultivation practices.  I am simply one kanaka ʻōiwi who wants to grow as much safe and healthy food as I can for my family, friends, and lāhui.  Basically, I am choosing to grow food.  This blog project will try to document my growing efforts and open up a forum for questions and helpful insights, I know I definitely will have a lot.  My plan is to focus on researching contemporary small-space horticulture techniques that require minimal resources. Mainly I will be researching permaculture, no-dig gardening, aquaponics and a few other techniques. For techniques that may not be availiable to me right now (because of funding or time) I will try and blog to share and comment on videos that may prove helpful to most.  I am receiving money from Hulili as a professional development grant ($500,yay) which I am so grateful for and which can help me to defray some of the costs I plan to incur   I also opened up a good amount of time for this project (because I know I will need it) by getting it approved as a HWST 699 directed reading class.   I also plan to plant in accordance to customary practices, as best as I can find out about.  My hope is that this project can open more opportunities for food production, food sovereignty and increased mālama ʻāina.  Look for the upcoming posts and feel free to add comments or questions, a hui hou!


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Jenny
3/19/2013 04:15:07 am

Good job

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    Mana's Mala

    Raymond Kaimana or "Mana" is documenting his journey as he researches and practices a hybrid of Hawaiian Planting techniques, Permaculture and other planting strategies.

    Email re3@hawaii.edu for further questions or comments.

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