Maui-Haleakala Chapter Locavore Potluck

Aloha Kākou,

• 6:00pm: Circle and Blessing by Pat Simmons Jr.
• 6:50pm: Membership Announcements: open mic (sign up with Harriett)
• 7:00pm: New Members Showcase: who are you, what are you up to, and and how do you plan to contribute to the creation our vibrant and prosperous agriculture community?
• 7:10pm: President's Announcements
• 7:20pm: Chef Perry - Mama's Fish House
• 7:45pm: Jennifer Karaca - Common Ground Collective
• 8:00pm: Unraffle and prize giveaway
• 8:30pm: Pau and Cleanup

A little bit about our guest speakers:

Chef Perry Bateman is in constant contact with Maui’s fishers, farmers and ranchers to deliver what he calls “their pride and joy,” fresh procured to diners at Mama’s idyllic oceanside restaurant. “I work with a team who understands that it’s a gift to be able to prepare dishes with the freshest fish possible, straight from the ocean to our door every day,” Perry says. “We get to use ingredients like sweet Maui onions just picked from the high elevations of Haleakalä, and lü‘au leaf, watercress and kalo (taro) from the streams down by the ocean.” Chef Perry will share his insights into what it means to be a part of the Mama’s Fish House supply chain,and how our members can be a part of this locavore opportunity.

Jennifer Karaca is founder and executive director of the newly formed Common Ground Collective. We are proud to support this new nonprofit with some of our chapter leadership. Go CGC! Jennifer graduated with her BAS in Sustainable Science Management from the University of Hawaii. Jennifer is a teacher, gardener, permaculture designer and environmental activist.

CGC Vision: The Vision of the Common Ground Collective is to create a place where anyone with land, a farm or Agricultural related business or aspirations of farming can find the help and connections they need to be more successful. We are striving to fill in the gaps in Maui’s Agricultural sector to boost local food production, increase economic security, promote environmental education and increase the use of regenerative farming practices. Learn more

As always, this meeting is a locavore potluck, and we appreciate you bringing enough food for yourself and some to share, or making a generous contribution so your chapter can continue populating the amazing food table we are known for.

We want you to bring your farm fresh goodies, cuttings and seeds to swap at the produce swap table, the more we all bring, the more abundance there will be at our meetings, and the better our personal inventories of plant cultivars on our farms will be as well. Sharing is caring, let’s make it happen! The three top givers of the most abundant swap items will be given complimentary deserts with the tickets for the un-raffle.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Look for the suggestion box by the door when you enter the meeting and let us know what you'd like to see happening at our meetings. Please think about topics you'd like to explore in breakout sessions at future meetings, write them down and let us know.

Mahalo to all of you for supporting this organization, we are the change we are waiting for, let’s keep working together to make Maui the agriculture paradise it will be.

With aloha,

Simon Russell

HFUU-Haleakalā Chapter
President

Locavore Potluck: Empower this meeting with your special creative and nourishing dish (for 8 or more). Those who come without a dish will be asked for a suggested donation: $10: Members • $12: Non-Members

Produce and Seed Swap Table: Please bring produce for the ‘Produce Swap’ table. Farm Fresh Produce for swap and for those in need is a tradition at Farmers Union meetings. Please help to make our table overflow. See Swap Table changes above.

Clean Up Crew: We need volunteers for table & chair duty, sweeping, mopping, kitchen, and the other clean-up duties that make these meetings possible! Volunteers will receive benefits for helping.

Member Sign-up and Renewal: Please come early if you want to sign up as a member. Become a member at the meeting and dinner is on us.