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August 2015 Newsletter View this email in your browser Our mission is to build community around food self-sufficiency. Contents Extend the Life of Your Kale -Enjoy Weekly Harvests for Up to a Year! Get Involved: Paint A Banner! - Your Creation Displayed at Foodland This September Mahalo Nui Loa for Recognizing HCG - In Hawaiian, Mahalo Nui Loa means, "Thank you very much!" Native Plants - Po Garden Humor: Real Life at HCG - Weeding Made Easy Photo of the Month - Herb Garden Makeover Announcements Contents Extend the Life of Your Kale -Enjoy Weekly Harvests for Up to a Year! Get Involved: Paint A Banner! - Your Creation Displayed at Foodland This September Mahalo Nui Loa for Recognizing HCG - In Hawaiian, Mahalo Nui Loa means, "Thank you very much!" Native Plants - Hibiscus Arnottianus Garden Humor: Real Life at HCG - Weeding Made Easy Photo of the Month - Herb Garden Makeover Announcements Extend the Life of Your Kale Enjoy weekly harvests for up to a year! Kale can produce edible greens for a year or longer, depending on the variety.  Just snip the outer leaves off and leave the center 3 leaves to continue growing and the plant will produce a harvest of greens once a week.  Discard any bad leaves that began wilting or yellowing into your compost pile and eat the good ones.  You'll get a nice harvest every week for up to a year from a kale crop. Kale comes in many varieties.  The most popular varieties that grow well here are flat leaf (sometimes called Russian kale), curly, and dinosaur kale.  The flat leaf variety has a shorter lifespan than it's dinosaur and curly counterparts.  Extending the life of your kale plants means more fresh, organic food on your table and less work to till and replant in between crops. Kale is full of nutrition and delicious is salads, soups, and lightly steamed.  For a real treat, try homemade kale chips.  Just trim the stems and cut up the leaves into squares.  Rub a drop of olive oil on your hand and pat the leaves to transfer a light coating of oil to them.  Add Parmesan cheese and a very light sprinkle of salt.  Too much salt with become salty during baking.  Bake at 350 until the chips are crisp.  Be careful not to burn them.  They cook fast! You’ll have a continuous supply of nutritious kale and never have to buy it at the store again! Get Involved:  Paint A Banner! Your Creation Displayed at Foodland This September Would you like to use your creativity to help the garden?  We're seeking a volunteer to hand paint a banner for HCG's upcoming Foodland Give Aloha fundraiser in September.  It can be a simple or detailed as you like. There are pictures attached of two banners painted by members Courtney Turner and Leah Berry for past fundraisers. Banner Information Organizations are invited to create a banner to be hung at a Foodland or Sack N Save store to encourage customers to "Give Aloha" to their organization. Banners will be displayed at stores throughout September. Procedures: Banners must be delivered to our designated store between August 24-29. Banners must be retrieved at the store between October 5-11, 2015. Unclaimed banners will be discarded. Banner Requirements: Material: All materials accepted including paper, felt, vinyl and fabric. Size: Must be 5 feet wide x 2 feet high, one size only. Banners will be hung horizontally. Code Number: We recommend that your organization's code number be at least 6" high for better visibility. Elements: Must include the following 3 elements:      Organization Name      Organization Code Number      Give Aloha Logo - at least 12" wide (see Resource Materials) Banners that do not follow the above requirements will not be accepted. If you want to keep your creation, it is yours after the event.  Otherwise, we'd be happy to find a permanent home to display it at the garden and reuse it year after year to hang at Foodland during the annual Give Aloha fundraiser.   Please respond if you are interested.   Mahalo Nui! Mahalo Nui Loa for Recognizing HCG In Hawaiian, Mahalo Nui Loa means, "Thank you very much!" It's very nice to be recognized for helping others!  A big mahalo nui loa goes out to the Maui Food Bank as well for all they do to keep our hungry community members well fed! Native Plants Hibiscus Arnottianus Photo courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr   Hawaiian Name:  Koki`o kea, Hau hele, Koki`o ke`oke`o Common Name: White Hibiscus Botanical Name: Hibiscus arnottianus Family: Malvaceae Status: Endemic Where Found: O`ahu and Moloka`i   This species has 3 uniquely different subspecies.  One is native to Moloka`i and is very rare in its native habitat. It features a white stamen and flower. The other 2 species found on O`ahu feature a red stamen and flower and are the only known species of hibiscuses in the world to have fragrant flowers! This is a beautiful native shrub to add to any landscape with it’s beautiful showy flowers.   Garden Humor:  Real Life at HCG Weeding Made Easy Satire:  You've just planted a whole bed of lettuce starts that you carefully nurtured in the green house from seed to sproutt  The next day you come to check on them and they ar all gone!  Where did they go?  Who would steal all your lettuce keiki?  Is there a thief among us?  Actually, yes, there is!  This snail, and probably his best buddies, are capable of eating two dozen 3 week old starts in a single night.  Research is now being done to determine how they might be genetically modified to prefer the taste of weeds over lettuce and kale. Scientists are excited about the possibilities as such alteration would make them efficient weeding machines.  The organic community has voiced strong objection to this research on the basis of cruelty to snails.  In other news... Photo of the Month Herb Garden Makeover!   Mahalo Nui Loa to garden volunteers Jim Porowski, Donna Ginoza, and Katheen Lee for taking on the herb garden last week after the eucalyptus tree shed all it's leaves into the bed.  The volunteers raked out the leaves, weeded, trimmed, removed old plants, and prepare the bed for new starts.  Fresh basil starts and more took root in the herb garden after a little tilling and amending.  Thank you so much for your contributions! Announcements Call for Volunteers Hali'imaile Community Garden Needs Your Help Are you interested in volunteering at Hāli’imaile Community Garden?  It is a beautiful place to be and a place where you can really make a difference.  Individuals and groups interested in becoming volunteers should complete a volunteer application and plan to attend an orientation session to receive a tour of the garden and learn about the various opportunities available to volunteers.  For more information and a volunteer application form: http://www.haliimailegarden.com/volunteer.html   Membership Has Its Benefits Come Grow With Us The benefits to gardening in a community setting are that it: Improves The Quality Of Life For People In The Garden, Stimulates Social Interaction, Encourages Self-Reliance, Beautifies Hali’imaile, Produces Nutritious Food, Reduces Family Food Budgets, Conserves Resources, Creates Opportunity For Recreation, Exercise, Therapy, Stewardship, and Education, Reduces Crime, Preserves Green Space, Provides Opportunities For Intergenerational And Cross-Cultural Connections, Increases Environmental Sustainability, and Provides Food For Food Pantries. Plots are now available for new members interested in gardening with us.  Plots are 10' x 20'.  Membership dues are an affordable $100 per year plus 1 service project per quarter.  For more information, see http://www.haliimailegarden.com/join.html.  To inquire about membership, call 415-480-GROW (4769) or submit a contact for at http://www.haliimailegarden.com/contact.html.    Talk To Us The Garden Council is Listening The garden council provides active management of the garden and is always available for your questions, concerns, ideas, visions for the garden, and suggestions at haliimailegarden@gmail.com.  Councilmembers Kevin, Lori, and Volkan all receive and read the incoming mails at this address.  We do our best to respond quickly.    Support Hali'imaile Community Garden Make a Tax Deductible Contribution Mahalo for supporting Hāli’imaile with a tax-deductible contribution,  Hāli’imaile Community Garden is recognized as a tax exempt public charity under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).   For donations options: http://www.haliimailegarden.com/donate.html Donate Now Facebook Twitter Website Google Plus YouTube Email Hali'imaile Community Garden is recognized as a tax exempt public charity under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3). 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