by Kirk Surry | Oct 17, 2013 | Culture, Food, Front Page Articles, Front Page Slider, Kihei Elementary School
Today we harvested two varieties of heirloom Kō sugar cane, talked story about canoe plants brought by the earliest Hawaiian settlers, and used a hand crank cane juicer to make lilikoi lemonade with K-5 grade students during Maui Family YMCA A+ after school program...
by Kirk Surry | May 22, 2013 | Culture, Food, Recipes, Wailuku Elementary School
Mas de 100 estudiantes participating in tutoring and enrichment programs at Wailuku Elementary School celebrated Cinco de Mayo by harvesting produce from their Salsa & Green Smoothie Gardens and sharing recipes during an after-school fiesta! Wailuku Elementary...
by Kirk Surry | May 11, 2013 | Culture, Education, Food, Growing, School Gardens
The harvest stage of a school garden provides an ideal setting to observe interdependence of producers and consumers: harvesting food in the garden vs. buying produce in a store or a restaurant. This is when Social Studies benchmarks can be supported in the garden...
by Kirk Surry | May 7, 2013 | Food, Front Page Articles, Front Page Slider, Growing, Kihei Elementary School
For three full days, April 24-26, world-class chefs led garden recipe workshops with more than 950 students in nearly a quarter-acre of garden space in the heart of the Kihei Elementary School campus. Kindergarten through 5th grade students and chefs prepared Asian...
by Kirk Surry | Apr 6, 2012 | Food, Kihei Elementary School, Volunteers
The Outrigger Pizza Company is a favorite lunch spot in Kihei, Maui (Azeka Shopping Center Mauka parking lot), so we were thrilled when co-founder and president Eric Mitchell agreed to spend three full days working with Wailea chefs preparing pizzas in his mobile wood...
by Kirk Surry | Nov 8, 2011 | Culture, Food, Front Page Articles, Front Page Slider, Kihei Elementary School, Volunteers
[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157627939259555″] In celebration of the opening of Makahiki season this month, students from Mr. Little’s fourth grade class harvested the remaining taro (called kalo in Hawaiian). The kalo patch was planted...
