03-02-2026, 02:38 AM
This month: Learn why "I found an air potato!" is a catchphrase wherever it's grown! One of the easiest staple foods, this prolific perennial carbohydrate is used like potatoes, but without needing digging to harvest and replant. A deciduous vine, air potatoes can grow on feed trees, on trellises, or amongst and on shrub and tree crops. This is a must-have for food gardens and homesteads. (Read more at https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/~-bulbifera.html )
We'll talk about domesticated air potatoes (Dioscorea bulbifera) and how amazing they are, see some specimens, and taste cooked samples. We'll have lots of the common "Hawai'i" variety to take home for planting and eating. We'll also have a mini-celebration of uhi / Hawaiian yam, a related vine & staple root.
DAY: Sunday, March 8
DISCUSSION: 11 AM til noon: Celebration of air potatoes
TOUR: noon til 1, with time to chat or wander more afterwards.
PLANT GIVEAWAY: 1 PM
WHERE: Pahoa Urban Food Forest (PUFF), at Living Planet Learning Center between Habitat Tattoo and the County Council building. (The building doesn't have any identifying signs yet.) Walk through the side gate to find us.
ADDRESS: 15-2881 Pahoa Village Rd, Pahoa
PARK: Across the street in the parking lot next to the former NAPA Auto Parts.
COST: Suggested $10 donation in time/cash/materials/LFA-free plant keiki
ABOUT LPLC: https://livingplanetalliance.org
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Next month, April 12 - Adaptive gardening & seed saving
We hold regular work parties. If you'd like to learn hands-on, get in touch to find out our days and times
Along with air potatoes, we'll share free seeds and cuttings and starts of many other species.
Please share this event with others who might be interested. Hope you can join us for any or all of it!
We'll talk about domesticated air potatoes (Dioscorea bulbifera) and how amazing they are, see some specimens, and taste cooked samples. We'll have lots of the common "Hawai'i" variety to take home for planting and eating. We'll also have a mini-celebration of uhi / Hawaiian yam, a related vine & staple root.
DAY: Sunday, March 8
DISCUSSION: 11 AM til noon: Celebration of air potatoes
TOUR: noon til 1, with time to chat or wander more afterwards.
PLANT GIVEAWAY: 1 PM
WHERE: Pahoa Urban Food Forest (PUFF), at Living Planet Learning Center between Habitat Tattoo and the County Council building. (The building doesn't have any identifying signs yet.) Walk through the side gate to find us.
ADDRESS: 15-2881 Pahoa Village Rd, Pahoa
PARK: Across the street in the parking lot next to the former NAPA Auto Parts.
COST: Suggested $10 donation in time/cash/materials/LFA-free plant keiki
ABOUT LPLC: https://livingplanetalliance.org
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Next month, April 12 - Adaptive gardening & seed saving
We hold regular work parties. If you'd like to learn hands-on, get in touch to find out our days and times
Along with air potatoes, we'll share free seeds and cuttings and starts of many other species.
Please share this event with others who might be interested. Hope you can join us for any or all of it!