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01/10/2010 |
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01/03/2011 |
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07/10/2015 |
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PO Box 1715, Kaunakakai, Hawaii, US |
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(808) 336-0318 |
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sustainablemolokai.org |
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Wet/Dry Tropical |
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Back to Molokai Permaculture Education Initiative - PRI USA & Sust`aina ble Molokai Partnership
Project: Molokai Permaculture Education Initiative - PRI USA & Sust`aina ble Molokai Partnership
Posted by Malia Akutagawa over 13 years ago
The youtube video link below is of the Earthworks Course, the last class in our training series that took place in December 2010 with Geoff & Nadia Lawton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMNRsLqjtdM
Geoff and Nadia were very gracious in sharing their knowledge with us. We are so grateful to them and the work they do to bring light and inspiration to so many around the globe. What brought tears to my eyes and hope burning in my heart were the many examples around the world of lands so denuded and arid, extreme deserts made green and renewed by the steadfast dedication of those who care and live the ethics of aloha `aina and malama `aina, loving and caring for the land.
In the short week they were here, Geoff, Nadia, and baby Latifa trekked all over Molokai in the early hours of each morning before the start of class. They saw our fishponds, mountains, and lo`i kalo (taro patches). As they surveyed the island, they made recommendations along the way, revealing clues in the landscape from a permaculture perspective and bringing to us an even greater appreciation for the wisdom of our kupuna (ancestors) who managed the land by ahupua`a (valleys from mountain to sea) and moku (districts) designed at a massive scale to be sustainable and abundant with all the food and resources needed by all who dwelled there. Geoff told us that our ahupua`a system (referred to by Bill Mollison as the `ohana system) was one of the 6 known sustainable systems in the world and that its something that he teaches to hundreds of students each year. I am reminded of an `olelo no`eau (Hawaiian saying), "I ka wa ma mua, ka wa ma hope" -- our future can be found in the wisdom of the past. Throughout the permaculture trainings, I did feel my cells awakening with a certainty that I have always known this, that the knowledge is present in my DNA and ancestral memory. Geoff explained it is the same for all who learn permaculture, it is a remembering and an awakening to what we have always known.
Mahalo (thanks) to the Lawtons for their inspirational work. Mahalo to Andrew & Shenaqua Jones who planted the seed of this knowledge and made it pa`a (firm) within us. To perma-genius Hunter Heaivilin; Nichole Ross for working with us to bring the Molokai Permaculture Education Initiative to our island; Brian Splatt for his major skills in "splatt-benedicts", herb spirals, and berkeleys; and Jill "Polish Thunder" Ross for being our permasister and newest Molokaian keeping us motivated and organized. Mahalo also to DarLynne Ka`ahanui and her staff of counselors who hosted the training at their Alu Like Ho`ala Hou site in Mahana, Molokai. A very special thanks goes out to Maui Tauotaha and `Oiwi TV who filmed the course and put together this wonderful 14-minute film that will assist us in cultivating additional partnerships for the healing of our island.
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