07-07-2026, 07:19 AM
Cut your grocery bills and eat tastier & more nutritious food! Growing your own can be easy with permaculture design and perennial polycultures. Join us at Pahoa Urban Food Forest (PUFF) on the second Sunday of each month to learn about the REAL Safeway, take a tour, and go home with free keiki of useful plants.
Backyard Grocery Store is a 12-part series:
- July 12: Integrating chickens in your foodscape
- August 9: Eat the weeds
- September 13: Trees with edible leaves
- October 11: Staple crops
- November 8: Beans & peas for the tropics
- December 13: Taro & other edible arum
- ...with more to come, through May 2027
This month: integrating chickens in your foodscape. Chickens can devour bags of expensive feed while wreaking devastation on your gardens...or they can forage to feed themselves while increasing crop resiliency and yields. The difference is in design: how we guide chicken-plant interactions. We'll talk about barrier options for runs and paddocks, how to encourage foraging while protecting against predators, and how to grow a calorie-dense self-serve buffet for your chickens. If you have experience with what works (or doesn't), we welcome your observations in the discussion!
DAY: Sunday, July 12
DISCUSSION: 11 AM til noon: Integrating chickens i nyour foodscape
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.)
ADDRESS: 15-2881 Pahoa Village Rd, Pahoa
PARKING is limited: 3 spots in our lot, and a few in the County lot next door. Bike or carpool if you can.
COST: Suggested $10 donation in time/cash/materials/LFA-free plant keiki
ABOUT LPLC: https://livingplanetalliance.org
Video tour of the site (thanks Peter!) - https://youtu.be/Dh1sA1KfjKM
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 many species.
Please share this event with others who might be interested. Hope you can join us for any or all of it!
Backyard Grocery Store is a 12-part series:
- July 12: Integrating chickens in your foodscape
- August 9: Eat the weeds
- September 13: Trees with edible leaves
- October 11: Staple crops
- November 8: Beans & peas for the tropics
- December 13: Taro & other edible arum
- ...with more to come, through May 2027
This month: integrating chickens in your foodscape. Chickens can devour bags of expensive feed while wreaking devastation on your gardens...or they can forage to feed themselves while increasing crop resiliency and yields. The difference is in design: how we guide chicken-plant interactions. We'll talk about barrier options for runs and paddocks, how to encourage foraging while protecting against predators, and how to grow a calorie-dense self-serve buffet for your chickens. If you have experience with what works (or doesn't), we welcome your observations in the discussion!
DAY: Sunday, July 12
DISCUSSION: 11 AM til noon: Integrating chickens i nyour foodscape
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.)
ADDRESS: 15-2881 Pahoa Village Rd, Pahoa
PARKING is limited: 3 spots in our lot, and a few in the County lot next door. Bike or carpool if you can.
COST: Suggested $10 donation in time/cash/materials/LFA-free plant keiki
ABOUT LPLC: https://livingplanetalliance.org
Video tour of the site (thanks Peter!) - https://youtu.be/Dh1sA1KfjKM
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 many species.
Please share this event with others who might be interested. Hope you can join us for any or all of it!