At the end of each school year, Grow Some Good likes to have a fun event where kid get to eat lots of goodies from the garden. This year, every school is having some type of harvest day. Chef's, pizzas, lemonade or whatever the garden has to offer! Below are the...
Kihei Elementary School Articles
Gnocchi in the Garden
Chef Geno Sarmiento of Nick's Fishmarket recently visited the gardens to give students a hands-on cooking demonstration. Together they prepared gnocchi with an herb tomato sauce and pan-seared shrimp. Garden Coordinator Jadda Miller, along with Chef Geno, take...
Harvest Festival Fun for Keiki Farmers
Harvest Festival Fun Keiki farmers at Kamalii Elementary School and Kihei Elementary School enjoyed a fun Harvest Festival at each of their schools. These annual events are a highlight of the school garden program, as students make and enjoy healthy snacks with fresh...
Volunteers Get it Done!
Hundreds of Helpers We're thankful for the hundreds of volunteers that support our organization each year. Some come from thousands of miles away and dedicate part of their vacation to helping our community; others live just around the corner and volunteer every...
Juicing Kō for Lilikoi Lemonade!
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 -...
Chefs + Garden + Kids = Inspiring Maui School Garden Video!
This video by Emmy winning photographer Jess Craven tells the story of Grow Some Good and their work with a Maui school garden that has grown from 3 box beds to nearly a quarter acre edible schoolyard and learning lab in the heart of campus. This is an edited version...
Work & Learn Day This Sat. | Bokashi Compost Workshop
Join us this Saturday morning for "Second Saturday" at Kihei Elementary School Garden as we prepare for summertime cover cropping and soil building. Grow Some Good is pleased to host a special workshop with Jenna Leilani Tallman of Maui Bokashi. Jenna will teach...
World Class Chefs + 1,000 Students Celebrate School Garden Harvest Fest
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...
Math Matters in the Garden
Measuring Perimeter, Area & Volume / Inspiring Entrepreneurial Minds This week, third and fourth graders at Kihei Elementary School and Wailuku Elementary School practiced measuring perimeter, area and volume in the garden to determine quantities of soil and...