FoodCorps Hawaii

Program Type: 
School Cafeterias, Garden Classrooms, Support Organization, Kitchen Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
High School, Middle School, Upper Elementary, Lower Elementary, Kindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
2,000
Year Founded: 
2013
About the Program: 

The Kohala Center is an independent, not-for-profit, community-based center for research, conservation, and education. By focusing on the needs of island residents and the research interests of our university and agency partners, three core areas of work have emerged: energy self-reliance, food self-reliance, and ecosystem health. Through these partnerships and by recognizing that we work in a model environment, we help communities on the island, in the Pacific, and around the world thrive—ecologically, economically, culturally, and socially. Our mission: to respectfully engage the Island of Hawaiʻi as a living model for humanity. Our vision: a state of pono, in which individuals realize their potential, contributing their very best to one another, to the community, and to the ʻāina (the land) itself, in exchange for a meaningful and happy life.

Service sites:

Malaʻai: The Culinary Garden at Waimea Middle School
SustʻAinable Moloka‘i
WCRC MAʻO Organic Farms
Honaunau Elementary
Na'alehu Elementary
Kua O Ka La PCS
Kohala Elementary