MA‘O High School Programs
Wai‘anae High School
Natural Resource Academy - Agriculture
In collaboration with MA‘O, kumu Lei Aken’s agriculture class has created a half-acre on-campus organic garden.
Students participate in hands-on interactive labs, stimulating field trips and classroom activities. The students maintain an organic bounty of bananas, corn, tatsoi, mesclun, pak choy, red Russian kale, cilantro, corn and arugula.
Students developed creative entrepreneurial ways to share their veggies with teachers and families, helping to spread awareness and aloha for eating organic. Wai‘anae High School is the first Hawai‘i public school to have an organically certified garden.
The high school garden will be featured at the upcoming Wai‘anae farmer’s market—keep an eye out for their produce branded under Ka‘aihonua!
High School Internship
Each Spring MA‘O runs a High School Internship in Organic Agriculture and Food Systems. Working both at the school garden and at MA‘O, the internship places motivated students into real-world entrepreneurial situations, introduces college-level learning, and adds a dynamic component to a young person’s high school experience.
WHS students weed their organic garden.
Spring ‘08 WHS interns pose with Kumu Kamu Enos after successfully hosting 30 volunteers at our March GIVE Day.
See what WHS Interns have been doing! Photo Gallery 1 Photo Gallery 2
Spring ‘07 HS interns Cheryse, Paolo, Nicole and Josiah cook up a dish using MA`O’s produce!
Spring ‘07 HS interns Cheryse and Nicole at Hoea Ea Conference (June ‘06) in Hilo, HI.
Lei Aken - Wai‘anae High School Agriculture Teacher
