REVOLUTION ALOHA

Please see the pictures and summary below, a recap of summer 2013 at Ke‘anae, Maui.

I organized community activities to encourage neighborhood assembly and cohesion.

I focused on being a living example of the solution to ensuring organic food security,

and carrying out responsible waste management.

I spent this summer planting food, including taro, cane, bananas and mountain apple trees, sweet potatoes, garden greens, veggies and a variety of medicinal plants like turmeric and noni. I gathered, processed, consumed and shared food from our neighborhood with my neighborhood including taro, lu‘au leaf, ulu, pohole fern, kalua pig, lilikoi, guava, banana, coconut, papaya and mountain apple. A highlight was hosting monthly 'board meetings' in which neighbors gathered in my front yard to ku‘i (pound) taro into pa‘i‘ai or poi which is a traditional method of food processing. My neighbors joined the community co-ed softball team and we participated in the Hana summer league. I took our locally grown selection from Ke‘anae for broader distribution at the Upcountry Farmers Market and was delighted to share our homegrown food with a wider island audience.

A few of my neighbors and I made a trip to Mahele Farms in Hana to participate in their community work day and was completely inspired. We also volunteered with the Maui Invasive Species Committee and assisted in the removal of undesirable miconia foliage in the Ke‘anae region. I organized a neighborhood group to participate in the first and second March against Monsanto in the effort to bring awareness to fellow island residents about the concerns regarding genetically modified food being grown in open air fields here on Maui. All the while I maintained my recycling routines and wet food composting, ensuring proper waste management and ecological well being. It is my hope that the sustainable awareness I provided through exercising individual responsibility and the organization of sustainable community activities, has made substantial progress towards better neighborhood cohesion and overall environmental well-being for my community of Ke‘anae, Maui.

During the month of March, Revolution Aloha used a crowd-funding website to raise start-up means for the purpose of being able to initiate Phase I within the community of Ke‘anae. The primary intention of this step is to improve neighborhood cohesion as a prerequisite for raising consciousness about the subjects of food security and responsible waste management. I will spend the coming months of summer, preparing and executing an agenda of cultural and sustainable group activities to provide positive opportunities for community assembly. I look forward to sharing the findings of our project at the end of summer. Keep up with our progress through pictures and videos on instagram, facebook, or twitter.

Mahalo nui to all who are in support of this sustainable lifestyle movement.

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