Waipa's Homework Club Back for Winter Session
Posted by Lea
Well, its that time again- the keiki are back at Waipa twice a week for our after-school Homework Club's winter session. We pick the keiki up from school and bring them to Waipa, where they do various outdoor activities and games, eat snacks, do their homework, have a session of instructional reading, and then go swimming (if weather permits).
We try to find healthy snacks which the keiki will eat and enjoy. We are also trying to be more sustainable with our snacks by trying to grow more and use what we have.
This photo shows a recent day when we served only food grown at Waipa for the Homework Club snack (except for the ketchup). We had kale salad, 'uala fries, fried banana, boiled peanuts, and corn-on-the-cob. We eat a LOT of kale salad at Waipa. Other food we grow and serve often include lilikoi-banana smoothies, string beans, kalo pa'a, poi, soybeans, mamaki tea, and carrots.
Mahalo to Aunty Kari, our garden manager, and to Joseph, our agricultural consultant, for keeping the food in the ground so that we are able to feed our keiki such healthy snacks!
Farm to Table!
Entry posted on 01/18/2012
Clearing invasive weeds at Makaihuwa'a
Posted by Lea
While preparing for full moon camping up at Makaihuwa'a (one of the ridges outlining the Waipa ahupua'a), two members of the Waipa 'ohana were recently caught on camera while clearing invasive weeds.
But who is the mystery weed whacker with Lea?
HINT: The shorter one is Lea ;) and don't let the size of the mystery weed whacker's weed whacker fool you.
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Only guesses submitted via facebook count. We will acknowledge the winner here and on Facebook. Good luck!
UPDATE: It took only a few hours for one of our akamai 'ohana on Facebook to identify our garden manager, Kari. Lea flexed her photo editing skills by blending 2 different photo's taken that day.
Entry posted on 10/30/2011
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