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Webinar ‘Cultivating Conservation: Reef-Friendly Landscaping at Maui Gold’ to be hosted by Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
The Maui Nui Marine Resource Council will host the November edition of its “Know Your Ocean Speaker Series” on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Guest speakers from Maui Gold Pineapple and SoilThrive Hawaiʻi LLC will share insights into the Reef-Friendly Landscaping process and early observations from Maui Gold’s first test plot.
New Reef-Friendly Landscaping test plots launch at Waiehu Golf Course, Ichiro ‘Iron’ Maehara Stadium
The County of Maui is working with the Maui Nui Marine Resource Council and SoilThrive Hawaiʻi LLC to pilot Reef-Friendly Landscaping practices at Waiehu Golf Course and Ichiro “Iron” Maehara Stadium in Kahului, according to a Maui Nui Marine Resource Council.
Grants awarded for community-based programs to fight Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles and for green waste management
The Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) has awarded grants for community-based management of coconut rhinoceros beetles (CRB) on O‘ahu, and to support green waste management on the islands of Kaua‘i, Maui, and O‘ahu. Awards for the two grant programs totaled about $293,000.
Maui Gold Pineapple leads the way: Transforming agriculture with soil innovation and reef-safe practices
An acre of Maui Gold Pineapple’s farm is the location of a new test plot for biological soil amendment, organic liquid filled with nutrients and microbes created by SoilThrive by Environmental Solutions Maui.
