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The Latest Spin on Weaving: Exhibit Features Hawai'i Handweavers Hui's 2015 Award Winning Pieces                                                     Special to North Hawai'i News 9/22/15

9/23/2015

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Dancing fingers across the islands have created “Shear Delight: Weaving in the Year of the Sheep,” the Hawaii Handweavers Hui’s  (HHH) 30th biennial exhibition, is on display in Kahilu Theatre’s Kohala Gallery in Waimea Sept. 18 through Oct. 18. Hosted by the HHH Hawaii Island chapter, the show’s theme celebrates the Chinese astrological year and the fiber (wool) which many handweavers and spinners use for their craft.
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merging from the need for shelter and clothing, weaving is the oldest surviving art form and our island community will be given the chance to experience that art at its best. The exhibit features award-winning pieces that originated at the Honolulu Museum of Art School Gallery in Honolulu Aug. 25 through Sept. 13 and was transported to Hawaii Island last week.
   
The HHH began on Oahu in 1953 as Hui Mea Hana – meaning people working with their hands – with the mission “to encourage and promote excellence in hand weaving by bringing together weavers, spinners, dyers, fiber artists, and educators who share the joy and passion of the fiber arts.”


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Hawaii Island Group
The Hawaii Island HHH was the brainchild of Joan Namkoong, an accomplished weaver and longtime member on Oahu, who initiated it shortly after moving to this island in 2010.
Currently the group is led by Susan Mori and Gretchen Van der Hayden who coordinate monthly meetings.
“They set up a topic. It could be a show and tell, a hands on or a video,” Sherry Heins says, Hawaii Island HHH member. “You bring your weavings to show people what you've done and they all ooh and aah and ask 10,000 questions.”
       To take advantage of member expertise, meeting locations can vary. “We try to go around the island and have meetings in different venues and sometimes members’ homes,” Mori says. “Our main venue for our bigger workshops and our monthly casual gatherings is Island Yarn and Art Supplies in Kona and we have been very lucky that they have made a space available to us.”

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The Culture of Woven Arts
Whether practical or decorative, weaving stands as a metaphor for the transactions between humans and the natural world. “My father was a professor and my family took many trips to Guatemala. I got to see all forms of weaving starting from the spinning and dying,” Mori explains. “I was mesmerized by what the weavers were doing. The whole spirit of the people combined with the landscape went into the weaving there.”
   
Mori returned to Hawaii Island from Japan where she was able to study with a teacher. “I learned a lot from her about natural fibers and dyes. Weaving like any other art form is a reflection of the person who makes it and their culture,” she says. “It’s the connection you get with people through weaving. As much as I learned about weaving from my teacher in Japan, I probably learned more about the culture of the group of women.”
   
While it is math and pattern based, weaving is also creative meditation. “When I'm really focused on weaving, the rest of the world can kind of disappear for a while. And when I'm planning a project, sometimes when I wake up, I know I've either been thinking about or dreaming it; suddenly I'll see it,” Mori says. “To me every single weaving I do is like an exploration. It's a question of how you're going to put different textures, fibers and colors together,” she adds.  
   
The love of fiber arts drew Heins to weaving. A long time knitter, she discovered weaving on a trip to Las Vegas where she spotted a woven scarf in a yarn store that she really loved and hasn’t looked back since.
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I joined the HHH and totally enjoyed the ladies,” Heins recalls. “I'm inspired by them all the time. Everybody weaves something different.” Heins generally weaves wearable art. “I do scarves and give them away to friends and family on the mainland,” she says. “I also donate to the Daniel Sayer Foundation for the auction. For the show I did something that was completely impractical.”

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Weaving Experience
Weaving offers myriad educational benefits and along with adult workshops, the HHH offers community outreach in the schools that teach
consistency, awareness and balance, along with life lessons.
  “It's very tactile. They (youngsters) can use their hands and get great satisfaction out of creating something,” Mori says. “There's also a lot of math involved in weaving. It can be a really good math tool, visualizing shapes and patterns. The more complex the pattern, the more math.”
    In fact, the invention of the Jacquard loom in France, first demonstrated in 1801 with its automated punch card system, is considered to be the first computer. But while automation has changed hand weaving from an everyday activity producing functional cloth to a contemporary art form, the process of transforming raw fiber into thread and cloth remains essentially the same. Hand and floor looms, drop spindles and spinning wheels retain their original character and function and are used by HHH members today.  

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And the Winners Are    
The “Shear Delight: Weaving in the Year of the Sheep” show’s juror Deborah Jarchow is a nationally known fiber artist and weaving teacher. Of the 12 award winners, four are from Hawaii Island. Pieces include Debra Repasky’s Seismic Activity (Kona), Susan Mori’s It’s not Easy Bein’ Blue (Waimea), Joan Namkoong’s Two Shades of Gray (Waimea) and Jill Cohen’s Steph’s Scarf (Hilo).
   
Within the exhibit, the Hawaii Island HHH also display weaving tools and storyboards showing their craft. Handwoven items are also for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to Kahilu Theatre.
   
 “The art of weaving is disappearing as the world modernizes,” Mori concludes. “It's one of the big reasons for promoting the art and why we wanted to have an exhibit here, sharing with people what weavers do.”

An application to join HHH can be found at:  http://www.hawaiihandweavers.org/membership.htm

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Jill Cohen's Steph's Scarf
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Journey to Cigoc: The Enduring Tribe of Croatia

9/18/2015

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That Croatia is in the shape of a boomerang is testament to its history, with the Croatian culture alternately being winged away to neighboring powers only to return and eventually establish itself as a nation. No one is sure of the origins of the Croats, but it is thought that they began as a Slavic tribe living north of the Carpathian Mountains, eventually moving south into the regions that make up today’s Croatia. Theirs was not an aggressive military action, but a gentle drifting and settlement, like water seeking its own level. This can be seen in the quiet, gracious nature of the people. 
     The Balkan Peninsula has been a crossroads between Western, Northern and Eastern Europe.
At various times Croatia has been occupied by Romans, Ottomans, Hungarians and French with varying degrees of success.  Before his death in 1089 Zionimir, a Croatian king who bolstered his hold on the throne through an alliance with the papacy, cursed his fellow countrymen to never be ruled by a monarch that spoke their language. Shortly afterwards Croatia attached itself to Hungary and remained thus for eight centuries.

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     Approaching the seaport town of Split in the early morning from the east coast of Italy, the ferry travels through a series of islands, dotted with snug little communities and small fishing boats. These islands have a history of providing landings for Greek and Venetian forays and at times shelter from military clashes, creating settlements. In fact our hosts in Split met on one of these islands, her family having settled there generations ago and his family settled in Split for 500 years.
     Today as the result of being surrounded by avaricious forces and their attendant religions, who seemed to sweep in like high pressure areas, Croatia is staunchly Catholic. This is evidenced by the large crucifix on the wall of the ferry passport control office and the religious artwork displayed throughout our accommodations.

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The twists and turns of history are constructed of  irony however, as the center of Split’s brilliant waterfront is a palace built by the Roman emperor Dioclesian, who voluntarily relinquished the crown and returned to his home town in 305 A.D.  At one time before the Adriatic receded, his palace extended into the water so that he could walk off the deck of his ship and stroll through his front door. Jupiter was his guardian diety and he insisted on being known as the “Son of Jupiter”.  An avid anti-Christian he caused the death of quite a number of folks.

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However, that was so yesterday. The Dioclesian palace with all its winding streets and plazas is now home to many crafts vendors, restaurants and entertainment, the cellar and throne room being the set for the Game of Thrones Season 5.


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Split is an idyllic, well ordered town centered around the seaport. Swimming beaches are walking distance. We were fortunate to have gotten a waterfront apartment where we could sit on a little porch and watch all the activity. Aside from watersports and ferry comings and goings, there was also the intrigue of private yachts and their opulent passengers. Food for the imagination of a nosy writer.  

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The journey up the coast and inland to Plitvice National park is steeped in beauty and history.  The towns along the coast such as Biograd, Sibenik and Zadar were the first lines of defense from the Venetian fleet. This proved to be tragic for the residents. Although at first the Hungarians came to the rescue of the Dalmatian coast, there was little more support from that quarter and Zadar was completely sacked by the Venetians in a ten year siege beginning in 1173.  Biograd, former capitol was razed and occupied by the Venetians in 1126 and even after they were chased out by the Hungarians, the city was never the same. Now a quaint coastal village with narrow winding streets where we had a delicious lunch.

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Heading east and north from Zadar you cross some narrow farmland plains that produce the beautiful fruits and vegetables that can be seen in roadside stands. Soon you begin to climb into the Velebit Mountains, which are mostly exposed granite covered with low vegetation and punctuated with the occasional fir tree. We’re heading to Plitvice National Park, which is a series of pristine lakes laying like a sleepy serpent in a crevice between mountain ridges. Absolutely pristine water with trout as long as your forearm. But also crowds and crowds of tourists, so unless you seek out the trail less traveled, you will find yourself marching shoulder to shoulder with a column of picture taking strangers through a pristine forest. A very unsettling sensation.

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To journey to Cigoc, a small village in southeastern Croatia on the edge of Lonjsko Polje National Park, is like traveling in a time machine.  The roads are narrow and wind through small villages whose houses bare the marks of time but still stand strong despite historically recent conflicts to attain nationhood in 1995.  We stopped at a roadside café where I was served a hamburger the size of a dinner plate and perusing local newspapers, discovered the imminent celebration of 20 years of nationhood. 

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The Sava River is a wide slow moving river whose headwaters lay in the mountainous northwest region of Slovenia, flowing southeast through Zagreb and forming the border between Croatia and Bosnia Hersogovinia. In the past a critical hot zone region, it is now a  pastoral waterway lined on both sides with cattle. The road to Cigoc runs along the river, which continues southeast, merging with the Danube.

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Hawai`i has humpbacks; Cigoc (cheegosh) has storks. On almost every roof is a resident stork, usually standing in a seven foot diameter nest, that they will return to from Africa every spring.  The gigantic rooftop homesteads and pteranodonic look of the storks’ flight are positively Jurassic and add another sense of timelessness. There is much mythology connected to the stork. They are harbingers of good luck, fidelity, family harmony and fertility and to have a stork nesting on one’s roof means the blessing of unending love. To the Egyptians they represented the soul or ba and according to some legends, storks don’t die of old age but fly to an island and take on the form of a human.

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We stayed at the edge of the park with the Baric family who created Tradiciye-Cigoc, a restaurant and tourist accommodations. The main building, which was rescued from a neighboring village, was brought to the site and rebuilt using traditional methods and provides various rooms upstairs with a large restaurant downstairs. There is also a separate little cottage, which is where we stayed and camping out back with a constant flow of bikers, bicyclists and car campers.

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The Lonjsko Polje National Park is home to many bird species and is a conservation area, but it is also integrated with the agricultural livelihood of the villages that border it and its traditionally built houses and agrarian lifestyle create the feeling of timelessness and harmony.  The park is a series of wetlands that at times are impassible due to flooding, but August was definitely not one of those times. The pastoral quiet only broken by bird call and the sound of a swan’s wings, which was oddly metallic as if they were attached with hinges. There are various flocks of sheep that are followed by a few storks who are eating the frogs and other creatures unearthed by plodding hooves.

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While we were in Cigoc we attended a festival in the neighboring village of Gusce to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Croatian nationhood. There is a feeling of gratitude for the survival of their culture and nation, but there is also  raw anger. On the banks of the Sava, along with cattle and sheep, are memorials, crosses that are testament to lives just begun, lost to war.  At a traditional folk music performance, where a line of traditionally dressed women, arms locked together, sang in multipart harmony, two men sat at a nearby table in heated discussion, their voices almost at the volume of the singing, oblivious to the beauty and harmony taking place on stage. As if in a parallel universe, they continued on with their discussion, unaware of the end of the singing or the exit of the musicians.
   
Here, the love of place is bittersweet, but must be very strong for the culture of a small Slavic tribe to endure the many centuries of incursions that has been Croatia’s history.  Aloha, European style.


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Michelle Kaulu Amaral: Thirty Years Dancing from the Heart   Special to North Hawaii News  9/15/15

9/15/2015

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Twilight at the Mauna Lani’s Kalahuipua`a, a shoreline gathering to talk story and play music, has been a full moon Saturday tradition for the last 18 years. But the August 29 gathering was “unprecedented” according to Kahu Kaniela Akaka, who hosts the event along with his wife Anna. Dancers and musicians gathered under a hoku (full) moon to celebrate Michelle Kaulu Amaral’s 30 years of hula performances at the Mauna Lani’s Atrium. 
     
Set right on the shoreline, Twilight at Kalahuipua`a takes place on the porch and front “lawn” of Eva Parker Woods Cottage. This evening, whispers of approaching hurricanes fussed the trees as surfers paddled out to catch the last of the waves; close in wavelets swirled and surged up the lava wall. It was easy to imagine boats of old anchored off shore and visitors being greeted with the aloha of music and dance.
    
That aloha was vibrantly alive on Saturday, with three of the Lim family, Lorna, Nani and Sonny, providing the music. Both Amaral and the Lims have Kohala origins, making Kalahuipua`a, which faces Kohala, the perfect place for this celebration, inspiring the Lims to begin with Maika`i Kohala.  “Lele o Kohala me he lupe la (Kohala soars like a kite)”, Sonny Lim says when the song finishes.
      
The evening that follows is filled with memories, family and old friendships. The next number is Heiau, which speaks of the sacred place of ancestors and origins and Amaral invites kumu hula (hula teacher) Tumu Naleialoha Napaepae-Kunewa to join her. 

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     When the Lims begin a medley of mele lei (lei songs), Amaral emerges with an arm draped in lei, riding an invisible cloud of aloha and floating down the steps. Her graceful arms, and love-light eyes are like a lunar tidal pull, gathering in the audience, one by one. 
   
As she dances her way through the large crowd on the grass, the wind and waves seem to rise and fall with her movements in conversation with the elements. Amaral makes her way back to the front row, presenting lei as she moves down the line of honored guests and kumu hula, a stroll down memory lane for her.
    
The evening continued with mele and hula such as Pua Ahihi, which Amaral danced for mentor Aunty Sally Alohikea at her daughter’s wedding; and Lovely Hula Girl, a favorite of Elmer Lim Sr who always sang it for Amaral when she danced in the Atrium.
   
The younger generation added their tribute with Amaral’s daughter Misti Ka`uilani Manasas and Lorna Lim’s two daughters taking the stage. And of course the evening couldn’t be complete without an appearance by Lim matriarch, Maryann, whose wide ranging voice starts in the belly and soars up to a high sweet falsetto.
    
There is beauty in a single blossom placed carefully behind the ear, but when added to a lei of many different blossoms, its beauty is enhanced as it enhances the beauty of the others. This is Michelle Kaulu Amaral’s gift to all whose lives her blossom of aloha has touched.


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Wild About Wiliwili      Special to North Hawai'i News 9/8/15

9/8/2015

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The Waikoloa Wiliwili festival, which takes place on Sat. Sept. 8, will be a celebration of conservation, wellness and native wisdom. That there are Waikoloa wiliwili trees to be celebrated is mostly due to the event’s sponsor, the Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative (WDFI) and its director Jen Lawson.
    
The wiliwili is one of the last upper story trees still standing in an area once blanketed in dryland forest. It is said that at one time the forest made it possible for a person to travel the west side of the island without touching the ground. Now only a few sentinels of a time past dot the Waikoloa landscape, the boldly orange wiliwili with its delicate leaves and flowers, prominent among them. 

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History
The wake-up call came about when “10 or 12 years ago contractors were coming up to Waikoloa Village area and removing wiliwili trees and taking them down to properties at the resort,” said Lawson. This inspired members of Waikoloa Outdoor Circle (WOC) to seek a way to prevent any more transplanting, which eventually led to the formation of WDFI. “Everyone was pretty much in agreement that they would never allow that to happen again on this property,” said Lawson.
      
A testament to the can-do spirit of aloha, “People in the community saw something that needed protecting and they figured out how to get a lease, find the money and the right people to write the plans and manage the projects,” observed Lawson, who became one of those “right people”. An environmental biologist working at the Pohakuloa Training Area, Lawson arrived on the scene as a volunteer and when the organization was formed became its project manager.

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A Growing Community
From the beginning WDFI has been a collaborative effort. “You have people, maybe their family are lineal descendants on this land forever, cultural practitioners or scientists and when you bring those people together it’s the most productive way,” said Lawson.
    
Like tree roots that create a network of support, the preserve community is expanding.  Last year, with regular Saturday workdays, the preserve drew over 1500 volunteers. “We clear the grass and do some of the hard stuff and then we bring in the community to plant the trees. Volunteers do a great job. We've had survival rates as high as 90%,” said Lawson. 
     
WDFI is also enhancing the future for Waikoloa Village. “We're really creating a community here. We're bringing conservation to the forefront in Waikoloa and we're involving our community. Every 3rd grader comes out here and gets to learn about the dry forest in their own back yard,” said Lawson.
      
Coming up on its fifth year WDFI continues to expand its educational offering with programs for Hawai`i Island school groups as well as mainland colleges. One such program Future Foresters, dreamt up by WDFI board president Beverly Brand, is a Saturday program for 4th and 5th graders that brings students out to the forest. “They learn about Hawaiian culture and do traditional crafts, along with natural history and the plant species we have here and just be out here and explore. Go see what it’s like to be in a cave,” said Lawson. 

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The Preserve
The WDFI currently holds a 75 year lease on 275 acres just S.W. of Waikoloa Village, zoned as a protected preserve.  Lawson met me at the Quarry road turn off. Bumping down the rugged road and through the entrance gate, I’m introduced to Hi`ialo (beloved), a welcoming burst of color and the apparent Waikoloa wiliwili matriarch.
    
Now completely fenced to exclude ungulates, oases of plant communities colonize the jagged rubble strewn landscape. Uhiuhi growing companionably with keawe, sheltering volunteer ilima, while solitary wiliwili, each with their unique tangle of limbs preside over ridgelines.  

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The Plants
Wiliwili was an important plant due to its low density and was used to make surfboards, fishing floats and ama (outrigger arm). “Wiliwili is testament to how tough Native Hawaiian species can be. These trees have maybe been here since it was a forest. We grow hundreds of wiliwili trees every year from Waikoloa seeds. Students came out here, collected seeds, learned about how seeds germinate, germinated the seeds and then they came back and planted,” said Lawson.  
     While wiliwili was the catalyst for creating the preserve, initial inventories revealed some surprises, such as the discovery of an almost extinct plant species, the uhiuhi. One of the reasons the wiliwili needs protection is that it’s not listed as endangered, but the native uhiuhi is. It’s estimated that there are only 75 uhiuhi trees on Hawai`i Island and 13 of those reside in the WDFI preserve.
     At one time the uhiuhi was an important source of material for traditional crafts. The wood of this native is so dense that it sinks in water and so strong that it was used to make tools such as the o`o (digging pole) and weapons. “Part of the festival is recreating some of these really valuable things to show people how they are made and share some background,” said Lawson. 
     Other plants include koai`a, a dry forest cousin of koa; ko`oloa`ula, a rare shrub whose beautiful red blossom was used for lei; and halapepe, which was once one of the most common trees between Kohala and Kona. “They’re delicious. I’ve heard of paniolo breaking them off and feeding them to their horses,” said Lawson. 
     Some of the preserve plants, such as naupaka, koa, koai`a and wiliwili, grown in the small on-site nursery, will be going home with festival participants. “Part of the festival is so people can grow natives in their own neighborhoods. You got to grow it to know it,” said Lawson. 
     The Wiliwili festival will celebrate the dry forest and “…get people together to talk about the unique environment in Waikoloa. We bring people from all over the island who are doing similar work and are contributing to the health and wellness of the ecosystem,” said Lawson. 


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Beefing up Hawai'i's Cattle Industry: Lowline Cattle Does it Sustainably       Special to North Hawai'i News 6/23/15

9/2/2015

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       It’s a sunny Saturday morning and Rick Sakata, one of the owners of Hawai`i Lowline Cattle Company greets me at the gate of a verdant Hāmākua pasture of upward rolling hills dotted with tall ohia. A colorful herd of cows grazes happily while calves frolic. Sakata whistling, we make our way into the pasture. With the original bull Conquistador at the lead, we soon find ourselves surrounded by curious bright-eyed creatures that settle down comfortably as if waiting to be told a story.  
       This is the main herd of the Hawai`i Lowline Cattle Company (HLCC) a small, unique Hāmākua ranching operation that produces high quality, 100% grass fed beef. Owners Rick (marketing) and Haleakala (accounting) Sakata and Dwayne (herd manager) and Tammie (herd records) Cypriano wanted to support food security and self-sufficiency on Hawai`i Island and to create a business that is in alignment with their lifestyle and belief systems. “We wanted to keep the cattle here in Hawaii`i and be sustainable. We're as natural as you can get and that's what we wanted. These cattle are born and raised in this pasture,” said Sakata.
       The herd began in 2008 when HLCC flew in one Lowline bull and five half-blood cows. In September of that year, one of those cows, already impregnated when she arrived, gave birth to the first of their Hawai`i born herd. Their second pureblood bull was flown in from Iowa and their third bull, first to be born in Hawaii came in 2013; the herd has also been augmented by Red Angus cows from Hawai`i Island.
       One of the short wide Lowline bulls trundles over to us and acts more like a friendly puppy than a bull. The two couples decided on the Lowline cattle breed, developed in Australia because it is compact (the bulls are about four feet at shoulder height), is particularly adapted to grazing and produces tender, flavorful meat.

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     The Lowline traits make it possible to raise and sell the beef in Hawai`i. While other breeds need to be sent to feedlots and finished off with grains to get the marbling, the HLCC herd feeds exclusively on kikuyu and pangola grasses and a leguminous clover called trefoil. This makes it possible to raise the cattle with a rotation system between three paddocks on 205 acres. “We’re the only certified grass fed ranch in Hawai`i,” said Sakata. Also, because of their size, two Lowline cattle can graze on about the same amount of pasture as one regular cow and produce more meat. 
       “Happy cattle makes good meat,” said Sakata and this approach has determined how HLCC does business. Along with American Grassfed Association (AGA) certification, HLCC operation is also Animal Welfare Approved by the Animal Welfare Association (AWA). This means there are yearly audits to insure that every aspect of the treatment of the animals creates the minimum of stress and promotes a state of general good health.
        The calves are weaned slowly and stay with the herd for a minimum of six months and natural conditions are allowed to prevail. “These animals get no medications and the bull stays in the pasture with the cows at all times,” said Sakata.  When the cattle need to be moved, it’s done with whistles and hand signals, which is what Sakata used to call the herd over to us.

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Why 100% grass-fed?

        There is now much evidence that consuming sustainably produced meats provides higher levels of omega-3s and other vital nutrients as well as benefitting the environment. However, buyer beware, as the grass-fed label has different definitions depending on who’s using it.
       According to the AWA many grass-fed labels allow for cattle to be confined to feedlots for some percentage of their lives. This means that while cattle can spend the majority of their life in the pasture, it is contrasted with as much as a third of their lives being spent in barren confinement, possibly having a negative impact on the animal’s health and the quality of the meat. Also according to the AWA, the USDA’s voluntary grass-fed standards only stipulate that animals have access to the outdoors, which  can render the grass-fed label meaningless.  
       Foraging animals also have a positive impact on the environment. Properly rotated herds actually stimulate the growth of grass and prevent degradation of the environment through carbon sequestration, a process where, “As cattle and other ruminants graze pasture they stimulate the growth of grass, which absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere through its leaves and stores it in a mass of roots under the ground in a far more stable form of carbon.” (http://animalwelfareapproved.org)

The proof is in the flavor
       HLCC beef is sold directly to the restaurant as a whole cow, which is slaughtered at the Hawai`i Beef Producers operation in Paauilo, also AWA approved. The purchaser, usually a chef, can then determine how the carcass is processed. This makes for less waste since all of the animal is used.
      HLCC beef is quickly gaining a reputation for providing delectable, tender meat at the center of gourmet meals. Having to use the entire carcass has also inspired creative new dishes. “Two of the chefs on O`ahu, Ed Kenney, Town Restaurant and Andrew Le, The Pig and the Lady, who use our beef were nominated for the James Beard Award,” said Sakata.
       If you have dinner at Merriman’s in Waimea, you will probably have the opportunity to try one of a variety of HLCC beef dishes.  But if you’re in the mood for a gyro, you can get one stuffed with shaved slices of HLCC beef at Dano’s Doner in Waimea or if you want to cook in, try George’s meat market in Hilo. Any way you slice it, HLCC is doing it Hawaiian style, sustainably producing nutritional food that stays in the islands to feed our bodies, our environment and our spirits.

 


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Think Tank: The Energy Lab at HPA                                          Special to North Hawai'i News 6/9/15

9/2/2015

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     The H.P.A. Energy Lab is a testament to what can be done when a synergy of people share a vision.  Located above the H.P.A. upper campus, the lab meets the requirements of both LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum and the Living Building Challenge. “The Living Building Challenge is LEED plus you have to be energy zero, water zero, waste zero. It was so hard that there were two successful buildings in the two years the program had run.  We decided to be number three and we were,” said lab director, Bill Wiecking.
     The building is an example of cutting edge technology, but it is also providing the opportunity for ongoing innovative educational practices that started with the building’s development. “The students were part of the design process and all the metrics and all the evaluation. They'd come to the architects meeting and say, 'Why'd you do that?'”said Wiecking. 
     The building’s design and construction was just the beginning of the real magic of the Energy Lab. The first year of operation, students were involved in conducting the required monitoring of the building. “We had a year where we had to measure everything, every five minutes. Water, air flow,” said Wiecking. This set the scene for the innovative educational approach that has developed over the last five years.

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When students find their way to the H.P.A. Energy Lab, it can be daunting at first. Rather than being told what to learn, they are asked. “The people who come into this lab don't know what they want to do and it can be intimidating. You ask a junior or senior questions and they are so articulate about every little detail, but when they started out they had no idea what they wanted to do,” said Wiecking. 
     Wiecking’s unflagging curiosity and energy sets the tone for this collegiate “Exploratorium”. You can walk in the door at any time during the day and find the hum of purposeful students engaged in active real world investigations. There is an air of hopeful possibility. 
     The main room has large monitors suspended from the ceiling and is bordered by classrooms set up like boardrooms and workrooms containing cutting edge equipment. “It's not just the building that is different but the space is different. The environment is different. They come back from college and say, 'We really had it good',” said Wiecking.

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In this think tank atmosphere, students find a focus and develop a project, which can often be a legacy from a previous student. The projects have continuity but also evolve based on the student’s interests and passions. “The really cool thing about handing down projects is that each person brings their own culture to it. Everyone who comes into the energy lab is completely different, except we're all passionate about something,” said senior, Jessie Ainslie.  

     This creates a collaborative spirit where students share research and ideas with each other. “People come in here who are in business and they'll say, 'That's exactly how my team works'. It's a group of people who collaborate and they all have their different strengths and they respect each other,” said Wiecking.
     Once students find their focus, how they go about exploring their questions is unique. The recently presented student projects were wide ranging and reflect personal passions and the desire to be of service. Here is a sampling of the projects that included: the study of neurological patterns, environmental monitoring, holograms, drone technology, green movement networking, an historical study and a search for exoplanets.

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To explore neurological patterns, students had three types of specialized brain monitoring headsets: Emotive, which has EEG capability; Muse and NeuroSky, streamlined versions that provide more generalized data. Using the Emotive and NeuroSky headsets, senior Erina Baudat measured the effects of music on the brain activity of dementia patients in her native Japan and at Ho`oNani Place Adult Daycare Center in Waimea. Through her data, she was able to show the dramatic difference in brain activity two hours of music a day can make. A simple thing as music can trigger memories and connect and create neuron pulses. My eventual goal is to bring back the studies to Japan because Japan has a really high frequency of aged patients and I wanted to do something for my community,” said Baudat. 
     Caylin Kojima’s project was very personal but with potential for broader applications. Diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, she used all three headsets to explore her own brain patterns and apply her findings to creating neuro feedback therapy, a technique that could help bipolar sufferers. “I wanted to know what was going on in my brain in a manic or depressed state. It is very debilitating and the more treatment options we have the better off we'll be,” said Kojima.
     Technology is a big presence at the Energy Lab, but students are allowed to explore in any direction using whatever tools are appropriate. One such project was senior Ariana Datta’s Parker Ranch climate study. Using diaries dating back to 1902, Datta studied the relationship between Parker Ranch and the ranch culture in Waimea, focusing on the grass-fed beef program to. “This project is intended to preserve Waimea’s past and conceptualize what Waimea’s future might hold,” said Datta. 
       Inspired by a visit from perspective scientists who would be residents of the NASA Mars habitat on Mauna Loa, juniors Alice Patig and Zen Simone set up a monitoring system to optimize learning conditions in classrooms. Using Netatmo sensors to “create an interface to show what all the classroom's profiles look like in order to change or alter them in certain ways that will optimize learning. It allows the students to better focus on what the teacher is saying and really listen and by lowering the CO2 with better ventilation, they feel less tired,” said Simone.  
     
These projects are a legacy from the students and an example of what can be done given the tools and the innovative environment of the H.P.A. Energy Lab.


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