Kahuku High and Intermediate School

Our goal is to expand our Hawaiian Medicinal Garden that will:
Help create awareness of traditional Hawaiian herbs used for medicinal purposes
Encourage students interested in becoming pharmacists to try Windward Community College and University of Hilo's 6-year pharmacist fast-track program (which saves 2 years of time and requires students to take some AP classes during high school and working in a medicinal garden).
Be a place to grow taro (Hawaiian staple food)
Preserve endangered Hawaiian plants
Help students identify Hawaiian plants (label plants with Hawaiian, Latin and English names)
Facilitate plans to make the school campus an edible schoolyard (with the support of school custodians). We will select drought tolerant plants since we can't expect the custodians to water the plants on a timely basis.
Provide students the opportunity to use their experiences in the school garden for science fair projects, community service hours, hours working on service projects (for letters of referral, scholarship application, college applications, etc)
Become a host of Kokua Hawaii's ̃