1. Growing Heirloom Squash For Hawaii’s Families By HPSI’s Ceres Trust Mini Grant Program recipient Anna Peach of Squash and Awe Farm

2. Project Concept: Identify and breed a strong local landrace Hand pollinate for seed purity

3. Visit the most interested communities

4. Goals : Share and inspire heirloom crop research. Encourage local food production by providing seed

5. Na’alehu Public Library

6. Pahala Public Library

7. Advise from soil to seed to stomach

8. Seed breeding and distribution

9. Providing research ideas

10. And pest control methods

11. Invite librarians to participate in agriculture education

12. As well as cooking Seeds from gifted pumpkin were saved, and shared with the community while the pumpkins fed the library staff in the week following the workshop Seeds from gifted pumpkin were saved, and shared with the community while the pumpkins fed the library staff in the week following the workshop

13. School visit

14. Connect the farm to the classroom

15. Farmer to Farmer Visits

17. Reach Three workshop locations, three farm visits, and two classrooms within the underserved Ka’u district. Over 55 people received seeds from 10 hand pollinated pumpkins from my farm in Waimea. These individuals also received troubleshooting advice either online or in person. 4 people were responsible for seed drying and distribution of over 200 seeds from the 4 additional hand pollinated pumpkins that were left as gifts to the community. Over 40 people and library employees were able to attend either a workshop, or benefit from a “farmer to farmer” field visit.

18. Result Because of this program approximately 445 beautiful Black Kabocha plants will be feeding the people of Ka’u and beyond…120 days from now

19. Mahalo to HPSI’s Ceres Trust Mini Grant for helping me to help others

21. Pau