Pahoa Community Garden

[IKE]

Aloha,
Friendly reminder about the Pahoa Community Garden work PARTY this Saturday from 3 till pau. With your help we will rehabilitate this space into a beautiful edible oasis right in the middle of Pahoa Village, just across from Cash & Carry.

The site has been weedwhacked, mulch has been dropped off, plants have been donated, IMO's have been made, but we can still use more. If you have any plants you'd like to bring, cardboard, some soil, some tools (especially hand sickles, o'o bars, picks, machetes, shovels, etc), or some extra friends, then bring them on down to the garden anytime. You'll see a good place to drop off supplies right in front.

This garden PARTY is organized by the Pahoa Museum and East Hawaii Timebank. Volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions you might have about the timebank and to get you signed up. Annual dues just $5. If you become a member you get time dollars just for helping out at this garden party, then you can go out and get a massage, help in your yard or other service from another timebank member!

We encourage everyone to come out, whether you can help in the garden or not. You can bring some food to share, even help paint some signs or just hang out and talk story with your neighbor. Hope to see you all there!!!

The folks at East Hawaii Timebank
ps. we arranged to pickup some cardboard at Longs in Pahoa this evening (Thurs @ 6). Give us a call if you'd like to help with this. 982-8925

[IKE]

Aloha,

Saturday's Garden party at the Pahoa Village Community Garden was a
HUGE success. Despite the rainy day, over 30 people came out to
transform a slice of Pahoa into an edible paradise.

A lot of overgrown weeds were cut down and pulled out, a new taro
patch was created, many fruit trees were planted including breadfruit,
banana, coffee, papaya, surinam cherry and whole bunch of new
friendships were made.

Everyone was so excited to be part of this transformation that the
question was, "When will we do this again?" Well, Maura at T.H.I.S
organization (thisorganization@live.com) has recently created a
Community Garden Club. Send her an email to join the club and get on
the list for the NEXT Garden party. Hopefully every other month on
the second Saturday.

In the meantime, feel free to drop in and treat that garden as your
own. Do some weeding (the back of the lot needs some major clearing),
harvest some food (Ice Cream Bean is bearing nicely right now) and
even plant some plants. You can check in with Sarah at the Pahoa
Village Museum if you have something big that you'd like to put in the
ground.

If you have pics, please send them to me and we'll get them up on our
East Hawaii Timebank Facebook page
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/East-Hawai...1341221128)

Our next timebank gathering is gearing up for April at our favorite
place, the Nanawale Community Center. Stay tuned for more updates
regarding that.

Until then
A hui hou

IKE PAYNE