is one of the first three farms in Hawai'i to earn the Animal Welfare Approved seal. The Eden Earthworks Project Fresh: Mountain View Community Gardens, is an agricultural educational program designed to increase the number of food growers, food marketers and healthy food choices. The gardens are located in the heart of the highest food insecure region on Hawaii Island. The Mountain View Gardens is a drug-free and organic farm; a learning environment for families, children, youth and seniors. Mountain View Community Gardens, builds community, provides recreation and plant seeds of hope. Hawaiian squash, Okinawa potatoes, soy bean, spinach, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, celery, kale, green onions, broccoli, taro, yam, eggplants and corn grow like crazy in the community gardens. Visit EdenEarthWorks. [Hawaii Lowline Cattle Company (Honoka'a) and Kauai Kunana Dairy are the other two Animal Welfare approved farms.] 

in tropical agroforestry and permaculture by the people who bring you this Hawaii Homegrown Food Network newsletter. The internship is a period of practical, supervised, real-life experience establishing an agroforestry and permaculture food self-reliance project in Holualoa, North Kona. Visit the website

The Little Fire Ant has been discovered in Kailua-Kona at a private home site (where they are being "treated") and at a landscaping-business property. A handful of other locations are strongly suspected of infestation.

  For more information see:
Emergency Response Plan for Invasive Ants in the Pacific and
Know Your Farmer's Alliance - Little Fire Ant

The Lotus Café, located in Kaloko New Industrial mauka of Costco, Kailua-Kona, will be offering a series of Thai cooking classesevery month. The series consists of three classes, held each Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, from 2 pm to 5 pm. Each class will have a maximum of five students, and students can register for just one, or for all three classes. Chef Ladda Simon from Chiang Dao, Northern Thailand teaches the classes using her many years of experience and family recipes.

Saturdays, 8 am to 12 Noon. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4 - 6 pm. Location: 73-1202 Ahikawa Street, Mamalahoa Hwy, one street north of Ka'iminani, turn makai.

Organic lettuce, greens, herbs & flowers. We are a neighborhood farm in the Kona Coastview subdivision (near Kona Palisades). We grow our completely organic produce in an aquaponics system.  Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics.  The fish provide the fertilizer for the plants and the plants clean the water for the fish. We want to give our community a local alternative to the poor quality, overpriced, imported produce that is sold in the stores. After several months of construction our second and much larger aquaponics system is now up and running.  We are very excited to have this completed and look forward to being able to offer a wide variety of produce on a more consistent basis.

We invite you to come by every Saturday morning and see what we are doing new.  For more information contact Chris & Alexis Smith, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

http://www.coastviewaquaponics.com

Every Sunday, 10am to 6 pm: Catered Hawaiian BBQ w/ smoked grass-fed beef, pork, vegetarian luau, taro fries, other dishes, & KAVA. Also Open Daily with Taro and Taro leaf for sale until supplies last. Location: between mile markers 39 and 40, makai side, south of Honoka', Hamakua. Look for the sign. All farm grown and local. We sell Taro, Noni Juice, Taro Hulis, Taro Leaf, Fruit by season (Starfruit, grapefruit, soursop, lemons, limes, mango), vegetables by season. We also have a nursery full of plants for sale: coconut trees, ti, neem trees, flowers, etc. The farm is run entirely by volunteers. For more information call manager Zach Gibson, 937-4687, or farm at 776-1100.