Thanksgiving Harvest on the Farm

In the spirit of the first Thanksgiving, when the pilgrims celebrated their harvest, Waikiki School students and families gathered for an afternoon of harvesting and enjoying a lovely meal together. On our gathering walk we found ripe mulberries, lemons, limes, tangerines, nasturtiums, chocolate bell peppers, mint, eggplant, kale, basil, and grapefruit. Our families turned the fresh harvest into a meal: green salad with tomatoes, nasturtiums, peppers, mulberries and lime vinagrette, kale smoothies, basil pesto pasta, wok-fried eggplant followed by fresh grapefruit and mulberries for dessert. Mahalo to all for a delicious meal!! Everyone went home with a basket of fresh fruits and veggies too!






Our dishwashing friends:

Make a Difference Day

Thank you to Hope Chapels for making a difference at our school! Over 200 volunteer church-goers and high school students from MidPac's Christian Club came out to our school to spruce up our campus. Volunteers weedwacked, trimmed, weeded, raked and hauled off an incredible amount of green waste, mostly from our fruit tree orchard. It was the hardest working crew seen on campus!

CFL exchange a success!!

Project Green and Waikiki School exchanged 3000 CFL's for inefficient bulbs during the month of October. For our energy consciousness, families not only will save on their electrical bill but our school earned $1200! Thank you to Blue Planet Foundation for providing the CFL's.

Students fight over kale snack

Waikiki students harvested kale and eggplant from the school garden. Then they cooked it using the power of the sun! When it was time to eat, they couldn't get enough.

3rd graders make bokashi

what's bokashi you ask? It's a mix of good bacteria and yeast that can be used in composting all kinds of food waste. this stuff works on meats, dairy, pasta, eggs-you name it! we used it, of course, for dealing with our school lunch waste. which brings up another question- why is their lunch waste at school's? we will have to get back to that.

anyway, the process is as follows:

day 1: prepare bokashi by mixing together mill run, molasses, and effective microorganisms (EM)-store in airtight containers
day 14: spread bokashi to dry in the sun for long term storage
day 15: use your bokashi to mix with food waste....

Hula Grill working in the garden

On May 20 and 21st, volunteers from Hula Grill joined Waikiki students to tend the gardens and fruit trees!

Waikiki Food Farm partners with Hula Grill

Hula Grill restaurant of Waikiki has partnered with Waikiki School to support the Food Farm and lunch salad bar program. For their spring menu special they generously donated $1 from each meal resulting in a $3000 donation! In addition, employees joined Waikiki students for 2 days of gardening and hard work.

thank you Hula Grill for supporting school gardens!