Community rallies to restore torched Ka’ala Farm
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It was muddy work cleaning up the taro field at the grounds of Ka'ala Farm's Cultural Learning Center Saturday after a brush fire devastated the area in early June. Kaley Kamaka handed off mud-caked weeds to Cane Ricardo. The Waianae High School students were among volunteers from several community groups and schools. See more photos of the cleanup effort at staradvertiser.com.
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20120825-0677 CTY VOLUNTEERS Volunteers from community groups including MAO Malama Learning Center, Leeward Community College, INPEACE and Nanakuli High School and Waianae High School had a workday to help restore the Cultural Learning Center grounds near Kaala Farm after the brush fire devastation in early June. Work included cleaning taro patches, clearing fire debris, preparing safe areas for upcoming visits by school children and insulating the water pipe that provides irrigation water. This is Lopaka Aiwohi clearing an area of burnt trees from the recent brush fires. He hopes this small area he's helping to clear will be planted with some trees to provide shade for rest. It is about half way up to the origin of the water pipe that provides irrigation water. He said the area that he's clearing was once used as a lohi (taro field). PHOTO BY DENNIS ODA. AUG. 25, 2012.
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Volunteers from community groups including MAO Malama Learning Center, Leeward Community College, INPEACE and Nanakuli High School and Waianae High School had a workday to help restore the Cultural Learning Center grounds near Kaala Farm after the brush fire devastation in early June. Work included cleaning taro patches, clearing fire debris, preparing safe areas for upcoming visits by school children and insulating the water pipe that provides irrigation water. This is (l-r) Jonathan Deenik (UH prof. in soil science), Joseph Smith (Waianae High School student) and Jesse Kauhola (LCC student) take a drink break. They were working on the irrigation pipes that runs through the burnt area from the recent brush fires.
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Volunteers from community groups including MAO Malama Learning Center, Leeward Community College, INPEACE and Nanakuli High School and Waianae High School had a workday to help restore the Cultural Learning Center grounds near Kaala Farm after the brush fire devastation in early June. Work included cleaning taro patches, clearing fire debris, preparing safe areas for upcoming visits by school children and insulating the water pipe that provides irrigation water. This is Sabastian Gaison (15, front) and Shaina Souza (16) both from Nanakuli High School, cover the irrigation pipes with plastic sheeting. The area around them was burnt by the recent brush fires.
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This is Jacob Aki (right, Kamehameha High School student) hauling a pile of rubbish weeds that he and other volunteers cleared from the lohi (taro fields). Volunteers from community groups including MAO Malama Learning Center, Leeward Community College, INPEACE and Nanakuli High School and Waianae High School had a workday to help restore the Cultural Learning Center grounds near Kaala Farm after the brush fire devastation in early June. Work included cleaning taro patches, clearing fire debris, preparing safe areas for upcoming visits by school children and insulating the water pipe that provides irrigation water.
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Volunteers from community groups including MAO Malama Learning Center, Leeward Community College, INPEACE and Nanakuli High School and Waianae High School had a workday to help restore the Cultural Learning Center grounds near Kaala Farm after the brush fire devastation in early June. Work included cleaning taro patches, clearing fire debris, preparing safe areas for upcoming visits by school children and insulating the water pipe that provides irrigation water. These volunteers are putting sheets of plastic over the water pipes to help insulate and protect them. The surrounding areas were burnt by the recent brush fires.
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Volunteers from community groups including MAO Malama Learning Center, Leeward Community College, INPEACE and Nanakuli High School and Waianae High School had a workday to help restore the Cultural Learning Center grounds near Kaala Farm after the brush fire devastation in early June. Work included cleaning taro patches, clearing fire debris, preparing safe areas for upcoming visits by school children and insulating the water pipe that provides irrigation water. This is (l-r) Danielle Torres (18, LCC student), Mahealani Deenik (9)and Geri Delacruz (LCC student) walk barefooted in the lohi (taro field) and smash the green weeds into the mud.
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