by Andrea Dean

Well…we did it! Planning for the first Community Harvest Hawaii was an exercise in trust–we were planning a large community food event where we didn’t know anything in advance. Important things such as how much food we would have to work with, what kind of food and how many people were coming to eat! But in true Kohala community fashion everyone pitched in, we had a LOT of food and everyone got to eat and enjoy. The community contributed:
-30 pounds of taro
-80 pounds of pumpkin
-4 pounds of green beans
-500 pounds of citrus (oranges, tangerines, pink grapefruit, lemons, limes)
-175 coconuts
-50 pounds of avocados
-47 pounds of vegetables and herbs (beets, chard, parsley, eggplan, dandelion greens, green onions, collards, kale, purslane, sweet marjoram, spearmint, lemon verbena, rosemary, thyme, basil, edible flowers)
-5 pounds of cassava
-53 pounds of bananas
-30 pounds of guava
-9 pounds of papaya
-4 pounds pineapple
-130 pounds of beef