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Posted on: Friday, April 11, 2008

Home & garden calendar

SPECIAL

APRIL 12 WORKSHOPS AT THE GREEN HOUSE

224 Pakohana St.; registration: 524-8427, thehawaiigreenhouse@hawaiiantel.net:

  • Backyard Composting Garbage into Gold, Evelyn Giddings will lead this hands-on workshop in how to build and harvest a compost pile; 10 a.m.-12 p.m.; $15.

  • Building a Solar Food Dehydrator, with Jeremy Cann; 1:30-3:30 p.m.; $15.

  • Flutterby Butterflies, Keiki Explorer Club workshop on the life cycle and importance of butterflies, for ages 4 and older; 1:30-3 p.m.; $12 per parent/child team.

    APRIL 12 GARDEN TOURS/WORKSHOPS AT AMY GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN, BIG ISLAND

    Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4. To register for classes, call 808-323-3318, agg@bishopmuseum.org.

  • Hawaiian Hardwood garden tour, learn te value of various native hardwoods from Noa Lincoln; 10-11:30 a.m., free.

  • Home Seed Harvesting Workshop, learn how to collect and store seeds from your home culinary garden; 9 a.m.-12 p.m. $20, $5 Bishop Museum Members.

  • Stone Shaping Workshop, learn the traditional Hawaiian art of stone working; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $55, $35 Bishop Museum Members.

    TI LEAF LEI MAKING

  • 9:30-11 a.m. Apr. 14; Foster Botanical Garden; supply fee $10 plus admision fee to the garden; reservations: 522-7064.

  • 9:30-11 a.m. Apr. 16; Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden; supply fee $10; reservations: 522-7064.

    LAUHALA WEAVING FOR BEGINNERS, learn how to select, remove thorns, clean, strip and weave lauhala projects; 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesdays until May 7; Foster Botanical Garden; Supply fee $5 plus $5 admission fee, $3 kama'aina; reservations: 522-7064.

    ONGOING

    SELF-GUIDED GARDEN WALKING TOUR, view more than 50 native Hawaiian and tropical plants and flowers surrounding The Royal Hawaiian hotel, tour pamphlet available at the concierge desk; daily; free; 923-7311.

    GARDEN TOUR, 1-mile (1.5-hour) "easy" guided walk to view the Kane'ohe garden's flowers, plants and trees; 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. daily (keiki-focused tour, 1 p.m. Sundays); Senator Fong's Plantation and Gardens, 47-285 Pulama Road; $14.50, discounts for kama'aina; 239-6775.

    NIAULANI NATURE WALK, guided tour through an old-growth Hawaiian forest; 9:30 a.m. Mondays; Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus, Volcano Village, Big Island; donations accepted; 808-967-8222, www.volcanoartcenter.org.

    GUIDED TOURS, view plants of the rainforest; 10-11:30 a.m. Mondays-Fridays; Lyon Arboretum, Manoa Valley; free; reservations: 988-0461.

    BOTANICAL GARDEN GUIDED TOURS; 1 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, with special topics on selected Saturdays; Foster Botanical Garden; included with admission of $5 general, $3 kama'aina, $1 ages 6-12; 522-7066.

    MANOA HERITAGE CENTER TOURS, visit a cultural and historical site in Manoa Valley, with guided tours of the native Hawaiian plant garden surrounding a traditional heiau (sacred site); 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; Manoa Heritage Center; $7 adults, $4 children and students; visits and tours by reservation only: 988-1287.

    FURNITURE WORKSHOP TOURS, learn about the history and craft of Hawaiian furniture; 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Wednesdays; Martin & MacArthur Workshop and Showroom, 1815 Kahai St.; free; reservations: 845-6688.

    GUIDED GARDEN TOUR, tour highlighting native Hawaiian medicinal plants; 1 p.m. Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Fridays, focusing on canoe plants (plants brought to the Islands during Polynesian migration); Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Kona, Big Island; $4 suggested donation; 808-323-3318.

    Send announcements, with contact name and phone number, to: Island Life, The Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; or islandlife@honoluluadvertiser.com, with "Home & Garden Cal" in the subject line.
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