09/16/2012NTBG’s Southshore Visitors Center presents
”Tahitian Sounds and Rhythms”
with Heifara and Tish
Sunday, September 16
10 a.m. -2 p.m.
Tahitian-born artist and craftsman Heifara Aiamu will demonstrate the craft of making traditional instruments, using plants and other natural materials.
`Ohana Day Events are held every third Sunday of the month, to coincide with one of the weekly `Ohana Day tour offerings.
The Southshore Visitors Center, which serves as the gateway to the McBryde Garden and the Allerton Garden in the Lāwa`i Valley, is located at:
4425 Lāwa`i Road (across from Spouting Horn)
Po`ipū
For driving directions, see:
Map or
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For more information on this and other offerings, such as the December holiday craft fair, call 742-2433. 09/26/2012From Seed to Salad
Workshop on small-scale sustainable gardening
Wed., September 26, 5-6 p.m.
Harrison Chandler Education Center
NTBG Headquarters in Kalāheo
Learn how to get the most out of your vegetable garden, start and save seeds, and receive vegetable starts plus a small bag of organic fertilizer ($5 fee payable at door).
Instructor: Ashly Trask, NTBG Nursery Manager
To sign up or for more information call (808) 651-5907 or email
propagate@ntbg.org
Driving directions to the Headquarters campus can be found on the NTBG website at
Our Locations
09/29/2012Sponsored by the Breadfruit Institute of the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawai`i Homegrown Food Network, and the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
at the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
Captain Cook, Hawai`i (mile marker 110)
Music and Storytelling
Learn to cook breadfruit with internationally known chef Sam Choy
Cooking Contest
Workshops: Breadfruit and Banana by Dr. Diane Ragone and Dr. Angela Kay Kepler
Cultural activities; local food; keiki crafts; youth art contest; tree sales
This event is part of the Ho`okulu ka `Ulu project, revitalizing breadfruit as an attractive, delicious, nutritious, abundant, affordable, and culturally appropriate food.
For events schedule, pre-orders of trees, contest entry forms, and more information, visit:
www.breadfruit.info