Hawaii's Grow Your Own Cookbook
Creative and Simple Ways to Use Healthy Homegrown Produce with Aloha!
The Hawaiian word for food is kau kau [cow cow]. Once we started to grow a bounty of wonderful organic produce, we turned to discovering delicious and healthful ways to lovingly prepare it. These inspiring recipes come from individual garden member contributors. They reflect a passion, wisdom, fellowship, and joyful inspiration for our love of healthful kau kau. Enjoy!
The proceeds of this cookbook benefit Hāli’imaile Community Garden, a non-profit corporation.
$19.99
The Hawaiian word for food is kau kau [cow cow]. Once we started to grow a bounty of wonderful organic produce, we turned to discovering delicious and healthful ways to lovingly prepare it. These inspiring recipes come from individual garden member contributors. They reflect a passion, wisdom, fellowship, and joyful inspiration for our love of healthful kau kau. Enjoy!
The proceeds of this cookbook benefit Hāli’imaile Community Garden, a non-profit corporation.
$19.99
Aloha!
Hāli’imaile Community Garden was founded in 2006 to build community around food self-sufficiency. Through educational outreach and provision of organic garden space, Hāli’imaile Community Garden aims to foster awareness of sustainable organic environmental practices, increase access to fresh healthy produce, encourage food self-sufficiency and reduce hunger, and provide guided organic gardening and environmental educational opportunities for the greater community.
Worldwide Challenges
Complex environmental and social challenges are confronting the island of Maui, the State of Hawaii, and the world. We all face a critical dilemma with air and water pollution, landfill contamination, food and water insecurity, and rapidly depleting natural resources. Grassroots environmental education is needed to address the complicated problems that threaten the very survival of our present and future generations.
Every year over 3 million tons of toxic chemicals are released into our land, air, and water causing damage to crops, livestock, forests, and bodies of water. Statistics show that food waste accounts for roughly 11 percent of the garbage that enters the landfill. Food packaging alone generates up to 30 percent of our trash.
In additional to pollution, food insecurity is another growing issue around the world. Statistics show that one out of seven people in the world go to bed hungry. Here in Hawaii, almost 8% of households experience food insecurity and deprivation. During 2010, over 14% of our statewide population received emergency food assistance through the local Hawaii Foodbank network, including 18,600 Maui residents.
At Hali'imaile Community Garden we strive to address these critical environmental and social challenges by providing fundamental, lifelong tools to help overcome them through education and the provision of fertile, organic garden spaces.
How We Address These Challenges
The Hali’imaile Community Garden project ensures that community members are not only well-fed on healthy, organic, local produce, but can also make informed choices in the broader contexts of their lives to make certain that our natural resources continue to be safe as well as available to future generations.
We achieve these goals through community outreach, organic gardening and sustainability education, hands-on gardening experience, and community-wide events. We began our Goodwill Garden program in 2013, a set of 3 garden plots dedicated to growing food expressly for donation to Hale Kau Kau and the Maui Foodbank, organizations which distribute food and prepare meals to feed the hungry of Maui County.
Our project encourages the use of composting as a multifaceted method that uses our waste resources efficiently; reduces the need for water, fertilizers, and pesticides; creates a nutrient-rich and beneficial resource from organic waste; and reduces the flammable and toxic gases that land filled waste creates. We are also actively working toward cultivating both bees and worms and continue to broaden our reach not only to encourage more community members to take up organic gardening, but also to access the other sources of knowledge and expertise.
In Hawaiian, mahalo nui loa means "Thank you very much!" Our project was founded on the basis of volunteers who are a huge gift to the community! Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. charitably granted access to the 1.4 acre garden and educational site to commence the project in 2006. The garden space itself, located in the midst of sugar cane fields in Hāli’imaile, was once the site of a homeless encampment and dumping ground. Through the concerted efforts of the community, the ground has been reclaimed and converted to fertile farmland that has helped to reduce homelessness by feeding families. The garden is 100% organic and the absence of chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides has enriched the soil and contributed not only to the health of the local community, but also to Maui's overall sustainability. In Hawaii, an estimated 90% of our food is imported. Providing space and the opportunity for our local residents to grow much of their own produce helps to reduce the tremendous environmental and financial burdens of transporting food to the island from the continental United States.
Overall, the project has provided growing space to nearly 500 individuals and families, offered public educational opportunities, served as a prototype for the development of a new Maui community garden, and supports ongoing networking with many organizations sharing similar goals to improve nutrition and physical well-being.
Taking It One Step Further
The Hawaiian word for food is kau kau [cow cow]. Once we started to grow this bounty of wonderful organic produce, we turned to discovering delicious and healthful ways to lovingly prepare it. These inspiring recipes come from individual garden member contributors. They reflect a passion, wisdom, fellowship, and joyful inspiration for our love of healthful kau kau. Enjoy!
Hāli’imaile Community Garden was founded in 2006 to build community around food self-sufficiency. Through educational outreach and provision of organic garden space, Hāli’imaile Community Garden aims to foster awareness of sustainable organic environmental practices, increase access to fresh healthy produce, encourage food self-sufficiency and reduce hunger, and provide guided organic gardening and environmental educational opportunities for the greater community.
Worldwide Challenges
Complex environmental and social challenges are confronting the island of Maui, the State of Hawaii, and the world. We all face a critical dilemma with air and water pollution, landfill contamination, food and water insecurity, and rapidly depleting natural resources. Grassroots environmental education is needed to address the complicated problems that threaten the very survival of our present and future generations.
Every year over 3 million tons of toxic chemicals are released into our land, air, and water causing damage to crops, livestock, forests, and bodies of water. Statistics show that food waste accounts for roughly 11 percent of the garbage that enters the landfill. Food packaging alone generates up to 30 percent of our trash.
In additional to pollution, food insecurity is another growing issue around the world. Statistics show that one out of seven people in the world go to bed hungry. Here in Hawaii, almost 8% of households experience food insecurity and deprivation. During 2010, over 14% of our statewide population received emergency food assistance through the local Hawaii Foodbank network, including 18,600 Maui residents.
At Hali'imaile Community Garden we strive to address these critical environmental and social challenges by providing fundamental, lifelong tools to help overcome them through education and the provision of fertile, organic garden spaces.
How We Address These Challenges
The Hali’imaile Community Garden project ensures that community members are not only well-fed on healthy, organic, local produce, but can also make informed choices in the broader contexts of their lives to make certain that our natural resources continue to be safe as well as available to future generations.
We achieve these goals through community outreach, organic gardening and sustainability education, hands-on gardening experience, and community-wide events. We began our Goodwill Garden program in 2013, a set of 3 garden plots dedicated to growing food expressly for donation to Hale Kau Kau and the Maui Foodbank, organizations which distribute food and prepare meals to feed the hungry of Maui County.
Our project encourages the use of composting as a multifaceted method that uses our waste resources efficiently; reduces the need for water, fertilizers, and pesticides; creates a nutrient-rich and beneficial resource from organic waste; and reduces the flammable and toxic gases that land filled waste creates. We are also actively working toward cultivating both bees and worms and continue to broaden our reach not only to encourage more community members to take up organic gardening, but also to access the other sources of knowledge and expertise.
In Hawaiian, mahalo nui loa means "Thank you very much!" Our project was founded on the basis of volunteers who are a huge gift to the community! Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. charitably granted access to the 1.4 acre garden and educational site to commence the project in 2006. The garden space itself, located in the midst of sugar cane fields in Hāli’imaile, was once the site of a homeless encampment and dumping ground. Through the concerted efforts of the community, the ground has been reclaimed and converted to fertile farmland that has helped to reduce homelessness by feeding families. The garden is 100% organic and the absence of chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides has enriched the soil and contributed not only to the health of the local community, but also to Maui's overall sustainability. In Hawaii, an estimated 90% of our food is imported. Providing space and the opportunity for our local residents to grow much of their own produce helps to reduce the tremendous environmental and financial burdens of transporting food to the island from the continental United States.
Overall, the project has provided growing space to nearly 500 individuals and families, offered public educational opportunities, served as a prototype for the development of a new Maui community garden, and supports ongoing networking with many organizations sharing similar goals to improve nutrition and physical well-being.
Taking It One Step Further
The Hawaiian word for food is kau kau [cow cow]. Once we started to grow this bounty of wonderful organic produce, we turned to discovering delicious and healthful ways to lovingly prepare it. These inspiring recipes come from individual garden member contributors. They reflect a passion, wisdom, fellowship, and joyful inspiration for our love of healthful kau kau. Enjoy!
Hāli’imaileCommunity Garden is recognized as a tax exempt public charity under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).