This is the fourth of six Saturday workshops in 2nd annual "It Takes a Garden to Grow a Community" series.

By garden teacher, Amanda Rieux and Dr.Norman Arancon from UH Hilo. Dr. Arancon, is a Professor of Organic Agriculture University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Dr. Arancon will share his secrets about how to create fertility in your soil and health in your plants through worm farming on a small or large scale.

Please join us for a fun afternoon with the "Worm Expert" of Hawai'i Island and return home with everything you know to set up a worm box and begin building abundant, healthy, and beautiful gardens!  (No potluck lunch, we will have snacks though.)

This six-Saturday program covers a range of topics to help Waimea Middle School students and their families and community friends to start or expand on home food gardens. Gloves and garden tools will be provided for the workshops and participants are urged to bring appropriate weather protection and drinking water.  The organic Mala’ai school garden includes both traditional Hawaiian food crops such as kalo, mamake and sugarcane, and many other food and flowering crops and trees.