{"id":23955,"date":"2014-04-11T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T00:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=23955"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:50:13","slug":"3rd-annual-hoolaulea-at-honolulu-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/11\/3rd-annual-hoolaulea-at-honolulu-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Annual Ho\u02bbolaule\u02bba<\/span> at Honolulu Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Ka māla o Niuhelewai at Honolulu CC<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been three years since the start of Honolulu Community College’s<\/a> Ka Māla o Niuhelewai (The garden of Niuhelewai) and the kalo (taro) is ready for harvest. Every April the campus celebrates the māla with the campus’ annual Hoʻolauleʻa<\/span>, Wednesday, April 16, 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Event participants will enjoy food prepared in an imu, poi pounding activities and live Hawaiian music.<\/p>\n

More about Ka Māla o Niuhelewai<\/h2>\n

Ka Māla o Niuhelewai has received the Scenic Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Betty Crocker Landscape Award for Xeriscape in 2012<\/a>, and most recently, the Honolulu Community College Sustainability Award<\/a> at the 2014 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Sustainability in Higher Education Summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since 2011, 20 Hawaiian varieties of kalo have been planted and the campus received a $25,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs<\/a> to plant Hawaiian varieties of kalo in a dry land māla.<\/p>\n

“Ka Māla o Niuhelewai, has been an instrumental hands-on venue for students, faculty, staff and the community in supporting the Hawaiian understanding of sustainable mālama ʻāina<\/span> application for producing food for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,” shares Mark Alapaki Luke<\/strong>, a Hawaiian studies<\/a> instructor.<\/p>\n

Read the Honolulu CC<\/abbr> news release<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honolulu Community College celebrates 2014 Ho\u02bbolaule\u02bba<\/span> — a day of fun, food and learning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-23955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-honolulu-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23955"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151117,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955\/revisions\/151117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}