What is important to note about this program, is that we intended to only run one program. However because of the strong interest and need from our community for a k-6 spring program, we did add a 2 day Laʻaulu Plant Dye Workshop as well. So we really have 2 programs to report on.

 

LO #1- Learners will be able to identify significant plant resources famous to their community in the past and present.

 

In both programs, we were able to make connections with plant resouces famous to our community in the past and present. In the 9-12 Program we focused on Olonā, Kō, Maile, Loulu and ʻōhiʻa. We outplanted an olonā forest, made sugar cane juice, made maile lei, thatched hale with loulu, and made field collections of ʻōhiʻa on Na Pali Coast.

 

In the K-6 Plant Dye Workshop, students learned how to use a variety of native plants and polynesian cultivars for dyeing. They specifically worked more in depthly with ʻōlena, lauaʻe, palapalai, and ʻukiʻuki.

 

 

LO #2- Learners will be able to identify significant resources in their community in the past and present.

 

In the 9-12 Program, beyond their connections with plants, learners were able to work and learn about traditional hale making from Noah Kaaumoana and Moku Chandler, hīhīwai, how to gather and eat hīhīwai, lei traditions of Haleleʻa from Mehana Vaughn, native soap making with Brendan Stogner, and how to make jewelry with native plants with Ziko Quintana.

 

In the K-6 Program, learners also learned about lāʻau lapaʻau and traditional hale making.

 

 

LO #3- Learners will be able to identify key cultural practices that are significant to their communities and how to participate in the perpetuation of these cultural practices in the future.

 

In the 9-12 program, there was a strong focus on teaching horticultural techniques and skillsets. Land management and stewardship were key principles enforced in this program.

 

Students had small hōʻike to show their new knowledge acquired in the duration of the programs.

In the k-6 program students got to take home Habotai.