Here are some tips to help you grow sunflowers. Water your sunflower seed start container every morning to keep the soil and sprouting seed moist. Once the sunflower sprout reaches a height of about 4 inches, transplant it directly into the soil. Sunflowers have long...
This morning I was out at the Kihei Elementary school garden. Since it was hot, I spent much time in my favorite (and shady) area...the composting area. Sadly our 6+ bins were all in pretty bad shape but I worked to turn our composting effort around! The bin in the...
See the School Garden at Lahaina Intermediate School Take a "virtual tour" of the Grow Some Good school garden at Lahaina Intermediate School, featured in the video below. This piece was created by students as part of the PBS Hawaii news show HIKI NŌ. “We Can All...
Over the past few months, we've seen news highlighting school gardens and their importance to supporting better nutrition and local agriculture. On July 7, 2015, Governor David Ige signed Farm to School bill SB 376, which aims to increase the amount of local produce...
Leah Belmonte, Governor's Representative, Maui at State of Hawaii joined Grow Some Good and MSGN at the Lipoa Farmer's Market today to offer this official proclamation. "... proclaim October 2015 as Farm to School Month in Hawai'i and ask all the citizens of the Aloha...
Grow Some Good and world-class chefs prepared gourmet cuisine from garden grown ingredients with more than 600 K-5 students and Kamali'i Elementary PTA parents and volunteers. Big MAHALO to our team of awesome volunteers and Eric Mitchell of The Outrigger Pizza...
A new edible classroom at Kahului Elementary School has sprouted from the passion, enthusiasm and collaboration of an awe-inspiring group of educators and volunteers. First grade teachers attended a recent school garden tour and turned their inspiration into action....
Here is great step by step guide to Seed Saving! If you find the site helpful, send a donation to them. Click on image to go to the site or http://howtosaveseeds.com/index.php.
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...