May Workday 2015

 Summer has started! Our plants are thriving... hidden amongst the dried cover crop... our plumeria trees have flowers and our Kukui nut trees are growing taller!

We have been diligently weeding one side of the Mālaola... and today we could tell that our efforts are making a dent, there are barely any weeds on that side of the garden.

The other THREE sides, however, are a different story... this month we started to tackle the weeds on the back end of the Mālaola and with the same persistence, we hope that in the next few months will start to see fewer weeds. We know that we will never completely get rid of weeds, but we hope at least fewer!!

In addition to pulling TEN large bags of weeds, we started to mulch around the crown flower in the front of the garden. We will spend the summer adding in rock walls and mulching pathways into our Mālaola, and watch our garden come alive!

Mahalo to all of our hardworking ʻOhana that came out this month!

April Workday 2015

 

Watch our garden grow!

 

Spring showers help our Mālaola thrive! It is exciting to see our plants take root and grow bigger and stronger. The only problem is that the weeds also seem to be growing bigger and stronger... we spent the first half of our workday pulling and clearing weeds from the perimeter of the Mālaola. We cleared THIRTEEN large bags of weed, wow! In the second half of the workday, we planted our last batch of plants before the summer heat really starts, we planted 9 ti and 8 ilima!

Watch our garden grow... March 2015!

This month we added more that 100 new trees and plants to our Mālaola!! Although they look small now... they will fill in our garden beautifully! 

 Mahalo to ALL of the helping hands that came out to help make this possible!

March Workday 2015- Part Two

A BIG MAHALO to the Dupont Pioneer Employees and Halau ʻO Kaululauaʻe for coming to our second March Workday and for the huge effort getting ALL of these plants in the ground and giving them a new home!

March plantings:

5 Plumeria, 2 Hala Trees, 5 Banana Trees, 1 Kou Tree, 10 Ti plants, 24 Uki uki, 10 Aʻaliʻi, 

1 Ilima, 2 Pikake, 8 Maʻo, 20 Naupaka, 6 Ohai... 26 people, 2 hours!