Hawaii Health Guide is pleased to announce the 2007 Hawaii Health Guide Health & Wellness scholarship award recipients:

The Hawaii Health Guide Health & Wellness Education Scholarship award fund is available to all Hawaii students regardless of age. High school students and people pursuing a mid life change of career are equally welcome to apply. Funds are directly applicable to tuition costs at an established school or CEU accredited workshop, or cultural practice through the lineage of a recognized kumu/apprentice healing tradition.

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The light poured through her, yet she was dark, cranky, addictive at 38. Through the trauma in her eyes there also sparked a light, an unmistakable beacon of spirit I have seen often, especially in th

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Top Prize is $100.
Second and third place winners receive gift certificates to restaurants, and other prizes.

All leis become the property of Hawaii Health Guide and will be sold at a silent auction on Nov 3 at the Amy Greenwell Botanical Garden as a fundraiser for the Health & Wellness Scholarship Fund.

The four categories are
1. Edible Lei
2. Medicinal Lei,
3. Aromatherapy Lei
4. Recycled materials Lei

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A statewide celebration of multi-cultural medicinal and nutritional plants of Hawaii. Polynesian, Hawaiian, Ayurvedic, Chinese, Filipino, cultural practitioners and ethno-botanists, will share their knowledge of Hawaii’s rich botanical treasures. Featuring lectures, tours, workshops, adult and children’s programs, a Healing Arts Fair and cultural entertainment.

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Maui Healing Garden
Booth Information

PLEASE NOTE MAUI FESTIVAL DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO DECEMBER 1st.
The booth discount has been extended to October 15th.

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Hawaii Healing Garden
Big Island Festival

Friday Nov 2, 2007
• Botanical Symposium & Health Expo!
• Outrigger Keauhou, Kona (maplink)
Saturday Nov 3, 2007
• Festival & Arbor Day Celebration!

- Big Island - Booth-Vendor Info

The Hawaii Healing Garden and Ethnobotanical Festival is coming to the Big Island Nov 2 & 3 in the third leg of a statewide festival that celebrates Hawaii’s heritage of traditional healing and medicinal plants.

The Healing Garden Festival starts at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort on Friday Nov 2 from 9-5 with a full day of lectures, hands-on presentations, cooking demonstrations, children’s programs, and Hawaii Health Guide’s sponsored Health Expo featuring botanical products and local health pracittioners.

Speakers from across the state will gather at the Outrigger Keauhou to share information about Ayurvedic healing practices, Traditional Chinese herbal medicine and cooking demonstration, Hawaiian La’au lapa’au and Polynesian traditional healing, and an introduction on the uses of FIlipino medicinal plants that grow in Hawaii.

The Festival and Health Expo are open to the general public and a small fee covers all speakers and events. A special evening performance of " Laka is the Forest" includes hula and chants and illustrates the profound and sacred relationship to Hawaii’s upland native forest.

A special healthy lei -making contest with Medicinal, Edible, Recycled and Aromatherapy leis features a $100 first prize. Leis will be sold at a silent auction to benefit the Hawaii Health Guide Health & Wellness Scholarship Fund and benefits students studying Health & Wellness professions in Hawaii.

Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort is a Sponsor and host of the Hawaii Healing Garden Festival is offering excellent Kama’aina rates or visitors and vendors who may require accommodations.

 
$119    Kama’aina Special (MODERATE category)
$129    Kama’aina Breakfast Special (PARTIAL OCEAN VIEW category; $139 in OCEAN VIEW)

The Kama’aina Breakfast Special includes a full Breakfast Buffet in our Kama’aina Terrace restaurant.
Call 808-322-3441 or visit www.outrigger.com

The Healing Garden Festival continues on Saturday November 3 in collaboration with the Amy Greenwell Botanical Garden Arbor Day Celebration and annual Tree Giveaway. The Healing Garden Festival starts at 8:30 am. and features organic gardening tips, native plant sale, feng shui for the garden, botanical tour, traditional uses of Hawaiian Bamboo such as nose flutes, awa (kava) and taro poi pounding and community information booths and family activities.

More info on lei contest, and expo booth registration and speaker bios can go on-line to www.HawaiiHealthGuide.com or call (808) 638-0888.

The Hawaii Healing Garden Festival will conclude its State-wide tour on Maui on Dec 1 at the Maui Community College

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You can view any portion of the Hawai’i Island Food Summit which is “webcast” on www.kohalacenter.org/foodmedia

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Biologists are seeking the public’s help in protecting two types of seabirds that leave their nests at night during October and November.

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The Little Fire Ant (LFA) was one of the pests discussed among farmers at the recent Hawaii Food Summit. The Fire Ant may be small, but it packs a big punch, and infestations are disrupting harvests and agriculural practices on Hawaii’s West side.

The insects cause harm to animals, pets and livestock with a strong sting and can cause blindness.

Some orchard workers in East Hawaii have refused to work in areas of infestation as the ants climb up plants and trees, and drop off when disturbed by pruning, picking flowers, or harvesting fruit.

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Mayor Mufi Hannemann and the City’s Storm Water Quality Branch, Department of Environmental Services, announce two city contests to spotlight the importance of protecting and improving Honolulu’s water resources.

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