April’s Last Saturday of the Month Workshop, Dinner…& this time a movie!
We will be hosting our earth day events a week late
9-12 intro to permaculture
7-9 potluck dinner & 350.org’s “DO THE MATH” climate change movie!
http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_film/4357
“Volcom Pipe Pro 2013: Sustainable By Design”
Not sure how to upload whole movie, check out
“Volcom Pipe Pro 2013: Sustainable By Design” Nathan Peracciny’s film featuring the farm as the compost site! Mahalo to Jen Homcy & Jim DiCarlo for pulling us in….we even hosted the premier! 
http://www.volcom.com/news/article.asp?articleID=6508
march in march to evict monsanto from haleiwa
will update with photos from the event, check out hawaii gmo justice coalition on facebook
carpool, meet at 711 in haleiwa at noon this saturday the 2nd, march to alii beach park
Bamboo building workshop
will update with picture and sharable file….for now…
Bamboo Building Workshop
Saturday March 30th, 9-11am @ Waihuena Farm
**next last saturday of the month workshop, April 27 Intro to Permaculture, then possibly rain barrels, then intro to solar? please tell us what you might want to learn about!**
59-414 Kamehameha Hwy, Haleiwa, Hawaii
Join us at Waihuena Farm on the North Shore with organic gardener, Tia Meer, to learn how to build with bamboo. Bamboo is a great building material because it is strong, lightweight, and grows abundantly in Hawaii. Learn techniques on how to grow, propagate, and harvest bamboo and get hands on experience using tools to cut and methods to join the bamboo together as we create a bamboo structure for the outdoor shower on the farm.
Fee: $25 per person, Advanced Registration Recommended!
To register email meleanasfarm@gmail.com
Or call Tia Meer at (808) 638-0570
Like us on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Waihuena-Farm-formerly-known-as-meleanas-farm/36010165
waihuena farm policies update
NEXT WORKSHOPS & (last saturday of the month)
FEB 23- composting
MARCH30- bamboo building
NEW POLICIES
ALOHA & MAHALO for your interest in WAIHUENA FARM Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), in helping keep the country country, in the movement to increase our island’s food security and in healthy food with less wasteful packaging!
Please like us on facebook & check out meleanasfarm.com (soon to bewaihuenafarm.com)
Our MISSION is to facilitate a flourishing community whose economy is nourished through ecological roots, grow food and a place that supports quality of life, health and well being:)… We aspire to evolve into a CO-OP and are interested in supporting other backyard farmers and helping distribute your abundance!
CSA PICK-UP is mandatory on MONDAYS NEW EARLIER LONGER TIME, between 2 and 7pm, you are also welcome to join us in the garden during these hours. Please bring your own bag to pack and look for the white board for details on what is in the week’s share and what is available for trade. For those who either don’t like certain things or have too much of their own homegrown, you can swap things out. We keep a general store style tab so you can easily pick up a couple bananas for the kids to snack on at pick-up. You are welcome to try a share anytime we can accommodate you, however request commitment and pre-payment by check at either a MONTHLY or an EVERY/OTHER WEEK level so we can plan accordingly. If you can not pick up on monday send a friend!
Please also let us know any DIETARY preferences/restrictions (vegan, gluten free, no nut… i wouldn’t want any bad surprises and we can be quite creative with our ingredients. for example, if we used mac nut oil in a baked good might that trigger a nut allergy?) We want your COMPOST! If you are not currently composting at home we want to help, we have 5 gallon buckets available for you to take home and fill up and return to the farm.
PLEASE BRING BAGS (clean plastic, and any shareable reusable) & JARS (clean glass) TO THE FARM. We want to thank our CO-OP member farms, Crave-Greens, Kamahiai Produce, Kawailoa Farm, Kolea Farm, Poamoho Organic Produce, Pupukea Gardens, Rainbow Trader, Uluwehi Farm, & Small Kine Farm for making the diversity available.
$25 weekly shares will include some of the following organically grown goodies…if you don’t know what it is EMAIL US! *goods are regularly featured
GREENS (roughly half the share value)
chard*, chaya- must be cooked, bok/pok choi, kale*, mizuna, mustard greens, tatsoi
salad* (from Pupukea Gardens & sometimes sprouts from Rainbow Trader), often embellished with our arugula* and edible flowers
FRUIT from our farm or our big sister farm in pupukea…and until our trees start producing we occasionally bring in seasonal treats
avocado, banana, lemon, lilikoi, lime*, orange, papaya* (each of our trees have been tested to be non-gmo)
HERBS, we try to offer something different each week
basils, chives, cilantro, curryleaf, dill, fennel, hot peppers, mint, olena, oreganos, parsley, rosemary
ROOTS
beets*, carrots, jicama, radishes, parsnips, turnips…
VEGGIES & BEANS
bush/pole beans, eggplant*, okra, wing bean*, pumpkin…
Sometimes we include a VALUE ADDED good such as- banana bread, basil pesto, beet chutney, eggplant babaganoush, parsley chimichuri. goodies such as home-made kombucha, other fermented & pickled products available upon request. Eventually we would like to include regular kalo, sweet potato, ulu…just give us a few more years;)
EXTRA goodies can be made available
organic/pasture raised eggs available for $3.50/half dozen
organic ‘Monster Mushrooms’ 2 sizes- small crimini and large portabello mushrooms for $12/lb
organic/pasture raised eggs available for $3.50/half dozen
organic ‘Monster Mushrooms’ 2 sizes- small crimini and large portabello mushrooms for $12/lb
DIRECTIONS
59-414 kamehameha hwy
closest dirt driveway on haleiwa side of sunset elementary school- across from pipeline
turn off hwy past first lot w big trucks, please drive SLOW!
we are the long skinny lot with the white fence, pick up is in the horse stalls just past the green big containers, enter through telephone pole gate
59-414 kamehameha hwy
closest dirt driveway on haleiwa side of sunset elementary school- across from pipeline
turn off hwy past first lot w big trucks, please drive SLOW!
we are the long skinny lot with the white fence, pick up is in the horse stalls just past the green big containers, enter through telephone pole gate
farm house FARM PHONE 6380570, MELE’s CELL 551.8132
OTHER INFORMATION
*Farm tours by appointment only
*Monday afternoons volunteer in the garden and CSA pick-up
*Sunday sunset yoga class with Eliza (donations to instructor)
*Last Friday of the month farm dinners
*Last Saturday of the month sustainability workshops
*Interested in getting YOUR HOME GARDEN going? We are available for permaculture consultation
*Seedlings/starts & other goodies to help get your garden going (and visit North Shore Organic Gardening in Waialua)
*Have family/friends visiting? Our vacation rentals (info on website) on farm and across street at beach fund the farm
FEEDBACK IS ENCOURAGED AND IMPORTANT TO OUR SUCCESS!
MAHALO NUI FOR THE SUPPORT!!
phew
Organic Gardening Workshop
Sat. January 26th Organic Gardening Workshop w/Tia Meer
Waihuena Farm
9:00-11:00am
59-414 Kamehameha Hwy, Haleiwa, Hawaii
Join us at Waihuena Farm on the North Shore of Oahu to learn basic gardening techniques such as garden bed preparation, seed starting, and plant propagation with gardening expert, Tia Meer. In this class we’ll make our own soil and do a hands-on demonstrations of how to plan, plant, and tend to your garden. We’ll work with all kinds of plants but focus on vegetables, edible perennial plants, and culinary herbs.
Fee: $25 per person, Advanced Registration Recommended!
To register email meleanasfarm@gmail.com
Or call Tia Meer at (321) 217-8492
Like us on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Waihuena-Farm-formerly-known-as-meleanas-farm/360101658786
Permaculture Design Course video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st2AcLVwZps
if that doesn’t work you can check out the HODGSON HAWAII channel “Permaculture Is” video:)
mahalo pete, hunter, matt & tia meer who helped make our summer 2012 PDC possible!
more good words
we were lucky to host kindred spirits John & Lisa this past summer, check out the awesome piece they wrote about us! if you are ever in wisconsin go check out their neat B&B www.innserendipity.com
http://www.hobbyfarms.com/hobby-farms-editorial-blogs/ivanko-kivirist/localizing-hawaii-food-system.aspx
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Localizing Hawaii’s Food System
John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist
Hobby Farms Contributors
We arrived to the Pipeline Lodge in Haleiwa, Hawaii, after nightfall, greeted by cool tropical breezes and the sounds of waves caressing the shore. Waihuena Farm, operated by Meleana Judd and a team of people dedicated to sustainable agriculture on the North Shore of Oahu, runs the bed-and-breakfast that would be our short-term home away from home. Despite the 365-day growing season, the islands that compose Hawaii import more than 85-percent of all their food (and ironically, even more of their energy). Judd is out to change that, starting with 18 community-supported-agriculture shareholders who savor her fresh, local fruits, vegetables and herbs.
Our son won a National Geographic Explore Oahu essay and artwork contest, which instigated our rather unusual summer trip to the island, so we harvested our Inn Serendipity growing fields, dusted off our snorkel gear and prepared to savor papaya, mango and star fruit while staying in the cozy and spacious Pipeline Lodge overlooking both the farm and the Pacific Ocean.
Between passing rainbows, a blazing tropical sun and the occasional bursts of sheeting rain, Judd steadfastly endeavors to build up the soil and propagate perennial plants, the foundation for her permaculture-based production system. She’s still trying to figure out which systems will work on her 3 acre organic farm, a part of a larger sustainability vision for the 20-acre property owned by her family since 2007. Inspired by the deeper meanings of most Hawaiian words, Judd’s farm name, Waihuena, refers to the closest high point near the farm, reflecting her commitment to and respect for the land where she grew up.
“The whole property made my connection to the land manifest,” Meleana says. “It pulled me in. After I graduated from college in 2003 with a degree in environmental studies and started the farm in 2010, I realized that it’s not just organic farming, but a whole lifestyle that needs to be in harmony.”
Judd has received her Permaculture Design Certificate, and Waihuena Farm has already hosted its first intensive permaculture design course. She is on the front lines of Hawaii’s local-food revolution, both by keeping the country country and by restoring food security.
“If all the ocean barges stopped arriving, many of us would starve on the island,” Meleana says. Her farm’s $25-per-week CSA share is just the beginning.
Check out some of our photos capturing the beauty and productive abundance on this veritable paradise.
 This CSA share from Waihuena Farm includes papaya, kale, lemon, lime, eggplant, bananas and an avocado. |
 Lisa and our son, Liam, wave from the spacious deck of the Pipeline Lodge, where we spent a week in paradise preparing local, fresh meals. We could also bicycle to spectacular snorkeling spots with bikes provided by Judd. |
 Meleana Judd, owner of Waihuena Farm, is implementing permaculture principals on 3 acres of her farm in Hawaii. |
 Waihuena Farm’s small nursery grows non-GMO papaya. Most of the other papayas on Oahu are GMO, either by choice or as a result of pollination. |
 Waihuena Farm’s growing fields backup to the yellow farmhouse and Pipeline Lodge towers above. |
 We savored fresh papaya nearly every day from Waihuena Farm! |
 Farmer Mike harvests papayas by the wheelbarrow. |
 Farmer Mike gives the “shaka” sign, meaning “hang loose” on the Hawaiian islands. It seems like everyone surfs on the North Shore. |
 Malibar spinach is a key crop for a permaculture-designed tropical farm. “Malabar is great because it grows so well,” Judd says. “It’s yummy in raw green smoothies.” |
 Judd steps out of the “food forest” that lines the driveway up the side of her organic farm. ”It illustrates the permaculture stacking principle, using various levels,” Judd explains. “In this case, the roots are tapioca. The edible ground covers include New Zealand spinach and nitrogen-fixing ground covers, like perennial peanut, Sunn hemp and pigeon peas. The understory includes ava and ti. Then there are small temporary trees that eventually get culled out, plus papaya, banana, chaya (tree spinach), bele (edible hibiscus), and small, longer-term trees, like cacao, coffee, star fruit, citrus and curry leaf, plus vines, like Malabar spinach and lilikoi (passion fruit). And even larger trees like mac, avo, mango and michelia, which is the fragrant tree so that it entices the caregiver to visit the plants. Finally, there’s the overstory of coconuts.” |
 The grassy area of Waihuena Farm will one day become a fresh-water pond as a part of the permaculture design for the property. |
 Kale harvesters Blake and Ashley are part of a team of local-food enthusiasts Judd enlisted to help run the farm. |
Savoring the good life,
