Log of hours and activities for each learning goal: weekly digest of activities and hours worked, plus cumulative total hours worked.
Week | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
Week 1: Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative | Lecture | 15 | 15 |
Discussion, networking, community building | 17 | 17 | |
Hands-on projects: weeding and planting the chinampas, processing cassava maneoka, harvesting turmeric | 14 | 14 | |
Movie: Seeds of Permaculture and slideshows: Jenny Pell’s journey with permaculture, and What Is Permaculture? | 5 | 5 | |
Blogging | 6 | 6 | |
Poetry and watercolors | 1 | 1 | |
Reading: Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual | 1 | 1 | |
Cultural: yoga, open mic, community gathering | 6 | 6 | |
Weekly total | 65 | 65 | |
Week 2: Pono Grown Farm | Lecture | 17 | 32 |
Discussion, networking, community building: feedback circle, fire circle | 22 | 39 | |
Hands-on projects: digging garden beds, herbal medicine making and harvesting, planting and mulching avocado trees, turning cover crops, honey harvesting and beekeeping, sifting compost, golden milk demonstration, coconut opening demonstration | 20 | 34 | |
Blogging | 4 | 10 | |
Reading: Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual | 2 | 3 | |
Movie: Seed and slideshow: Anahata and Bloom’s Permaculture Action tour | 4 | 9 | |
Field Trips: PermaBlitz: J’anti’s orchards with a tour and weeding, and weeding hairy veg on Devon’s farm; Maui Bees; Pukalani farmer’s market; Makawao Street Fair | 15 | 15 | |
Weekly total | 84 | 149 | |
Week 3: Ahimsa Sanctuary Farm | Lecture | 14 | 46 |
Discussion, networking, community building: potluck, Farmer’s Union meeting | 22 | 61 | |
Hands-on: farm tour, weeding and prepping herb garden, distilling turmeric, moving chicken coop, propagating vetiver, turning worm bins, making salves | 16 | 50 | |
Slideshows: Jenny’s experience with permaculture part 2, coppicing | 3 | 12 | |
Plant Profile | 6 | 6 | |
Blogging | 4 | 14 | |
Maori water ceremony; Pre-ceremony preparations of cleaning kitchen and making bouquets | 10 | 10 | |
Weekly total | 75 | 224 | |
Week 4: Whispering Winds Bamboo Cooperative | Lecture | 15 | 61 |
Discussion, networking, community building | 18 | 79 | |
Hands-on: farm tour, pruning, grafting workshop, Korean natural farming, painted bamboo, local food processing workshop, mucked out the pond, garden design at Lokahi | 18 | 68 | |
Slideshows: Biodynamics, Natural building; Documentary | 5 | 17 | |
Blogging | 2 | 16 | |
Design group work | 6 | 6 | |
Field trips: Stefan’s property, Lokahi | 8 | 23 | |
Weekly total | 72 | 296 | |
Week 5: Hale Akua Garden Farm and Permaculture Center | Lecture | 8 | 69 |
Discussion, networking, community building | 11 | 90 | |
Hands on: farm tour | 1 | 69 | |
Design project and presentations | 33 | 39 | |
Talent show | 3 | 3 | |
Guest speaker: Gabriel from Seeds of Change | 1 | 1 | |
Next steps panel | 2 | 2 | |
Blogging | 1 | 17 | |
Graduation ceremony | 2 | 2 | |
Weekly total | 62 | 358 | |
Week 6: Internship at Whispering Winds Bamboo Cooperative | Monday 02.12.18: Blog work and midquarter evaluation | 3 | |
Tuesday: 02.13.18: Clean quonset and prepare for bike bamboo workshop, propagate mamace | 8 | ||
Wednesday: 02.14.18: propagate mamace, harvest and plant pigeon pea seeds, weed, fertilize and mulch bamboo plants | 9 | ||
Thursday: 02.15.18: plant pigeon pea seeds, weed nursery | 8 | ||
Friday: 02.16.18: Blog work | 3 | ||
Weekly total | 31 | 389 | |
Week 7: Internship at Whispering Winds Bamboo Cooperative | Monday: 02.19.18: Fix water line | 3 | |
Tuesday: 02.20.18: Gathered and prepared bamboo poles to fix tools | 9 | ||
Wednesday: 02.21.18: Planted papaya seeds, righted plants that were knocked over by wind, continued working on tools | 9 | ||
Thursday: 02.22.18: Harvested and processed turmeric | 9 | ||
Friday: 02.23.18: weeded and mulched papaya grove, weeded and mulched banana, avocado, and guava trees | 7 | ||
Saturday: 02.24.18: weeded and mulched banana and guava trees, edged and weeded garden, planted comfrey, cut back grass from pumpkins and vetiver | 8 | ||
Sunday 02.25.18: blog work | 3 | ||
Weekly total | 48 | 437 | |
Week 8: Whispering Winds Bamboo Cooperative | Tuesday: 02.27.18: Harvested bamboo | 8 | |
Wednesday: 02.28.18: Collected bamboo, processed pigeon pea seeds, moved horse fence | 8 | ||
Thursday: 03.01.18: Harvested and processed turmeric, harvested fruit | 8 | ||
Sunday: 03.04.18: Blog work | 2 | ||
Weekly total | 26 | 463 | |
Whispering Winds Bamboo Cooperative – Week 9 | Tuesday 03.06.18: Unloaded bamboo, painted Bali House stairs, moved cow fence, checked bamboo markings, propagated Hiruse | 8 | |
Wednesday: 03.07.18: Weeded and mended shade cloth, propagated Hiruse, made coconut mulch, moved and composted bamboo plants | 8 | ||
Thursday: 03.08.18: Prepared and planted turmeric bed | 8 | ||
Friday: 03.09.18: Weeded, mulched, and fertilized small trees, mulched and fertilized pineapples and verigated bananas | 7 | ||
Saturday: 03.10.18: Mulched ginger, planted vetiver | 6 | ||
Sunday: 03.11.18: Blog work | 1 | ||
Weekly total: | 38 | 501 | |
Cumulative | 501 |