History

• In the United States during WWI, food became more of a focus than education so gardens became important.

• Women during the war would work in the gardens.

• Schools took on gardening to feed people that went to war.

• In 1917, there was a total of more than 3 million war gardens in the U.S.

• After the war community gardens stayed around and became more popular.

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• Hawaiians for many years fed millions of people in sustainable way, understanding how important our watersheds and forests were.

• The Ahupua'a was the name of the Hawaiians watershed which gave them their food and helped the reef stay healthy.

• Native Hawaiian forests would take the rainwater and filter the water into fresh water. The plants inside stops erosion.

• Cows, pigs and goats have been destroying our forests, non-natives have been growing and spreading fast since the 1930s and cattle are one of the main reasons why watersheds are bad over the world.

• Non-natives also can eat away our native plants. Hawaiian forest are destroyed by fires that start, a lot of which are started by humans.

• Because of what the western settlers brought in to Hawaii, our way of having food and collecting has changed a lot from that sustainable way long ago.

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• Gardens provides food we need and in a healthy way to eat. 

• You don't have to be good at gardening to have a garden, all you need is the right supplies and a bit of creativity.