Maui-Haleakala Locavore Potluc

Aloha Kākou,

REMINDER!

Our next chapter meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23^rd, at the Hã‘iku Community Center. Doors open at 5:30. We will be starting promptly at 6pm. This month’s focus is on mushrooms. Our guest chef this month is Chef Rishi from Cassanova in Makawao. He will be creating Mushroom Alfredo and a Caesar salad for your dining pleasure.

Our first guest speaker will be Loxley Clovis, who will speak on fungi from a permaculture perspective. Loxley is a permaculture instructor and farmhand at Ola Mau Farms, growing heirloom kalo. He is also a co-founder of The Story Connective, a multimedia platform covering the Maui’s agricultural transition through a podcast series called RE-Envision Maui. In his free time he likes to volunteer with ‘auwai maintenance and reforestation efforts. Loxley is passionate about both education and mycology.

Our second speaker is Curt Banzinger, owner of Kokuakats Farm. He will speak about growing and marketing oyster mushrooms.

I will have an update on the Hukilike No Maui proposal for 5,000 acres of the fallow A& B sugar lands.

Once again, we will be interspersing our unraffle throughout the evening in order to allow everybody a chance to participate more fully.

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.

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.

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.