Food forest tours & keiki giveaways - Pahoa

[norrist]

This month: Nature fills unplanted niches in our gardens and food forests. For every crop plant, it seems there are hundreds of unwanted volunteers ("weeds.") Join us to discuss filling and holding space in perennial polycultures, to minimize weeding while maximizing resilience and yields for humans and non-humans. We'll talk about ground covers, edible weeds, short-term crops, feed trees & soil builders, and food & shelter plants for birds & insects.

DAY: Sunday, July 14
CLASS: 11 AM til noon: Food forests: Filling and Holding Space
TOUR: noon til 1, with time to chat or wander more afterwards.
PLANT GIVEAWAY: 1 PM
WHERE: Pahoa Urban Food Forest (PUFF), between Habitat Tattoo and the County Council building. (The building doesn't have any identifying signs yet.)
ADDRESS: 15-2881 Pahoa Village Rd, Pahoa
PARK: Across the street in the parking lot next to NAPA Auto Parts.
COST: free

We hold regular work parties. If you'd like to learn hands-on, get in touch to find out our days and times!

We'll share seeds and starts of several species, including:

Ice cream bean - *Inga edulis* (probably) - great nitrogen-fixing chop and drop, and yummy fruit if it's allowed to become a large tree
Achira selected clone - *Canna edulis* - low maintenance herbaceous root crop, biomass, and ornamental
Jamaican cherry - *Muntingia calabura* - tree maybe 30' (can be kept smaller), small tasty fruit
Pigeon pea seed - *Cajanus cajan*
Crotalaria seed - unknown species
Air potato bulbils - *Dioscorea bulbifera*
Mint potato - *Plectranthus rotundifolius*
Vanilla
Pepper vine
Bele AKA edible hibiscus - *Abelmoschus manihot*
Chaya - *Cnidoscolus chayamansa*
Cassava - *Manihot esculenta*
Longevity spinach - *Gynura procumbens*
Katuk - *Sauropus androgynus*
Lemon balm - *Melissa officinalis*
...and more...

Hope you can join us for any or all of it!