2023-2024 Classes
Tropical Subsistence Gardening
How to Grow a Complete Diet
with Permaculture in Hawaii.
25 Class Course
Live In Person
Saturdays 2pm-4pm
Dates to be announced
in Kapoho, Big Island Hi
OR
Online On Demand
(Classes become available one week after live version)
Course Description
Learn how to efficiently grow your own food at home in Hawaii to provide a fresh organic balanced diet. From yard or field to table all the crops necessary will be covered including their: identification, propagation, cultivation, harvest, preservation, and use. Permaculture tools and techniques focus on easy and practical ways to create food abundance at home!
Our focus is on plants that thrive in Hawaii, both traditional Poylnesian crops and horticultural practices, as well as more recently introduced edible plants and growing methods from similar climates across the globe. Learn to prepare and cook these locally adapted foods with detailed instructions, recipe ideas, and storage solutions, to help you seamlessly integrate these easy to grow, nutritious, and delicious foods into your daily diet!
Classes cover best practices, theory, plants, & more, and are a blend of engaging lectures, colorful photo rich slideshows, short videos, hands on demos and tours(for in person classes), and informative easy to reference written handouts. All course participants will have access to video recordings of the classes.
Benefits
Gain increased food security and resiliency to natural disasters by re-localizing and diversifying your food supply.
Improve your health with fresh, organic, pesticide free food, and increased physical activity from gardening.
Save money by growing your own.
Help fight climate change by eating food grown just steps from your doorstep instead of food shipped thousands of miles.
Learn how to efficiently grow your own food at home in Hawaii to provide a fresh organic balanced diet. From yard or field to table all the crops necessary will be covered including their: identification, propagation, cultivation, harvest, preservation, and use. Permaculture tools and techniques focus on easy and practical ways to create food abundance at home!
Our focus is on plants that thrive in Hawaii, both traditional Poylnesian crops and horticultural practices, as well as more recently introduced edible plants and growing methods from similar climates across the globe. Learn to prepare and cook these locally adapted foods with detailed instructions, recipe ideas, and storage solutions, to help you seamlessly integrate these easy to grow, nutritious, and delicious foods into your daily diet!
Classes cover best practices, theory, plants, & more, and are a blend of engaging lectures, colorful photo rich slideshows, short videos, hands on demos and tours(for in person classes), and informative easy to reference written handouts. All course participants will have access to video recordings of the classes.
Benefits
Gain increased food security and resiliency to natural disasters by re-localizing and diversifying your food supply.
Improve your health with fresh, organic, pesticide free food, and increased physical activity from gardening.
Save money by growing your own.
Help fight climate change by eating food grown just steps from your doorstep instead of food shipped thousands of miles.
Teacher Bio:
Wade Bauer has practiced Permaculture in Hawaii for 15+ years, with 10+ years teaching. He has a B.S. in Environmental Biology/Zoology, is Permaculture Design Certified. Wade has worked, volunteered, and studied on many organic farms and permaculture sites in Hawaii. His company Malama Aina Permaculture has helped design, install, and manage, thriving gardens and orchards in a variety of microclimates and scales, from suburban residential lots, to acreage, to a subdivision. Wade's 3 acre farm in Kapoho Hawaii strives to be a demonstration site modeling a locally appropriate sustainable homestead. This will be Wade's third time teaching this course in it's entirety, and many of the classes that make up the course he has taught over a half dozen times.
Wade Bauer has practiced Permaculture in Hawaii for 15+ years, with 10+ years teaching. He has a B.S. in Environmental Biology/Zoology, is Permaculture Design Certified. Wade has worked, volunteered, and studied on many organic farms and permaculture sites in Hawaii. His company Malama Aina Permaculture has helped design, install, and manage, thriving gardens and orchards in a variety of microclimates and scales, from suburban residential lots, to acreage, to a subdivision. Wade's 3 acre farm in Kapoho Hawaii strives to be a demonstration site modeling a locally appropriate sustainable homestead. This will be Wade's third time teaching this course in it's entirety, and many of the classes that make up the course he has taught over a half dozen times.
Course Dates & Class Titles
Class dates to be announced (Dates TBA)
Please Note:
Classes are only offered as part of the entire course at this time, not individually.
This enables students enrolled in the course to attend every class due to limited seating.
Thanks for your understanding.
Classes included in the Course
Class dates TBA
Permaculture Homestead & Orchard Design
Guilds, Companion Planting & Polycultures
Essential Tools: Use, Techniques & Maintenance
Organic Integrated Pest Management & Pig Fencing Options
no class
Soil Health: Mulching, Composting, Organic Amendments and Fertilizers
Plant Propagation & the Home Nursery
Planting Practices for Fruit Trees & Vegetables
Pruning & Training Fruit Trees
no class
Creating Kitchen & Root Crop Gardens
Mulch Plants, N-Fixers, & Support Plants
Perennial Greens & Perennial Vegetables
no class
no class
Locally Adapted Annual Vegetables
Staple Root Crops (Starchy roots, carbs)
Bananas & Plantains (Staple Tree Crops, carbs, #1)
Breadfruit (Staple Tree Crops, carbs, # 2)
no class
Peach Palm, Breadnut, Jackfruit (carb/protein mix tree crops):
Protein Crops (Legumes, Nuts, Seeds & Greens.)
Small Livestock & Game: (Animal Proteins)
Avocado, Mac Nut & Pili Nut (Oil Tree Crops # 1)
no class
Coconut (Oil Tree Crops #2)
Key Easy Sweet Tropical Fruits (vitamins/mineral crops)
More Sweet Tropical fruits (vitamins/mineral crops)
no class
Perennial Spices, & Medicinals
Perennial Culinary Herbs & Teas/Beverages
Cooking & Preserving Locally Grown Food
Please Note:
Classes are only offered as part of the entire course at this time, not individually.
This enables students enrolled in the course to attend every class due to limited seating.
Thanks for your understanding.
Classes included in the Course
Class dates TBA
Permaculture Homestead & Orchard Design
Guilds, Companion Planting & Polycultures
Essential Tools: Use, Techniques & Maintenance
Organic Integrated Pest Management & Pig Fencing Options
no class
Soil Health: Mulching, Composting, Organic Amendments and Fertilizers
Plant Propagation & the Home Nursery
Planting Practices for Fruit Trees & Vegetables
Pruning & Training Fruit Trees
no class
Creating Kitchen & Root Crop Gardens
Mulch Plants, N-Fixers, & Support Plants
Perennial Greens & Perennial Vegetables
no class
no class
Locally Adapted Annual Vegetables
Staple Root Crops (Starchy roots, carbs)
Bananas & Plantains (Staple Tree Crops, carbs, #1)
Breadfruit (Staple Tree Crops, carbs, # 2)
no class
Peach Palm, Breadnut, Jackfruit (carb/protein mix tree crops):
Protein Crops (Legumes, Nuts, Seeds & Greens.)
Small Livestock & Game: (Animal Proteins)
Avocado, Mac Nut & Pili Nut (Oil Tree Crops # 1)
no class
Coconut (Oil Tree Crops #2)
Key Easy Sweet Tropical Fruits (vitamins/mineral crops)
More Sweet Tropical fruits (vitamins/mineral crops)
no class
Perennial Spices, & Medicinals
Perennial Culinary Herbs & Teas/Beverages
Cooking & Preserving Locally Grown Food
Course Dates & Class Titles with Descriptions & Photos
date TBA Permaculture Homestead & Orchard Design
Acquire the permaculture design tools of observation, zones, sectors, site assessment, and more, and use them to start designing a diverse, productive and low maintenance home orchard. Laying out all the elements for an on or off grid homestead. Find out how a site can virtually “design itself”! |
date TBA Organic Integrated Pest Management & Pig Fencing Options
How to deal with the worst broad spectrum pests in Hawaii, such as slugs/rat lungworm, feral pigs, little fire ants, root knot nematode, Chinese and rose beetles, queensland longhorn beetle, & more. (plant specific diseases will be covered in the class on that plant.)
How to deal with the worst broad spectrum pests in Hawaii, such as slugs/rat lungworm, feral pigs, little fire ants, root knot nematode, Chinese and rose beetles, queensland longhorn beetle, & more. (plant specific diseases will be covered in the class on that plant.)
date TBA no class (week off)
date TBA Soil Health: Mulching, Composting, Organic Amendments & Fertilizers
Recognize “yard waste” as a resource and use it as mulch to feed your plants. How to build & manage a worm bin and use vermicompost to make compost tea to boost plant health. Correct common local ph, mineral, and nutrient imbalances to enhance growth. Learn where to source local and organic amendments and how to get a soil test.
Recognize “yard waste” as a resource and use it as mulch to feed your plants. How to build & manage a worm bin and use vermicompost to make compost tea to boost plant health. Correct common local ph, mineral, and nutrient imbalances to enhance growth. Learn where to source local and organic amendments and how to get a soil test.
date TBA Managing Mulch Plants, N-Fixers, & Support Plants
Turn problem “weed trees” into “feed trees'' to nourish the plants you want to grow using coppicing and pollarding techniques aka“chop & drop”. Learn identification of the most common “weed trees” and tips and tricks to work with them. Discover nitrogen fixing pigeon pea, crotolaria, ice cream bean, gliricidia, and more.
Turn problem “weed trees” into “feed trees'' to nourish the plants you want to grow using coppicing and pollarding techniques aka“chop & drop”. Learn identification of the most common “weed trees” and tips and tricks to work with them. Discover nitrogen fixing pigeon pea, crotolaria, ice cream bean, gliricidia, and more.
date TBA Planting Practices for Fruit Trees & Vegetables
Making a crop inventory. Selecting planting sites. Prepping holes or mounds depending on soil type and terrain. Amending soil. Hardening off, transplanting, mulching, after planting care & fertilizing schedules. How to create a garden calendar to schedule fertilizer application and planting of short term crops. |
11-25-23 no class
date TBA no class
date TBA no class
date TBA Staple Root Crops (Starchy roots, carbs)
Learn everything you need to know to grow the “potatoes” that thrive in hawaii. Well known and loved taro and sweet potato. Unusual uhi, edible air potato, cassava & cocoyam are all delicious staples that are highly underutilized. Cassava is extremely easy to grow and drought resistant. |
date TBA Designing & Building Kitchen & Staple Root Crop Gardens
Learn how to site, design and build kitchen vegetable gardens and staple root crop gardens. hugelkultur, raised bed, etc. path and border management. Build kitchen gardens. Obtain and balance soil. Protect root crop gardens from pigs! |
date TBA Breadfruit (Staple Tree Crops, starchy carbs/“tree potatoes” )
Find out how to propagate, harvest, prune, and cook this amazingly productive Pacific island staple. Ulu is the new potato! Many have had bad first experiences with eating breadfruit picked too early, learn to identify mature and perfectly ripe fruit |
date TBA no class
date TBA no class
date TBA Small Livestock & Game: (Animal Proteins)
Chickens can recycle table scraps to eggs. Wild pigs are a destructive problem that can be turned into a tasty solution for the dinner table. Tilapia can eat pond plants, algae, and greens. Class will cover the basics of raising/feeding chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks, geese, tilapia, and hunting feral pigs. Animal manure is an excellent fertilizer. |
date TBA no class
date TBA Perennial Culinary Herbs & Teas/Beverages
Many annual herbs need frequent re-planting, perennial herbs with the same flavors can grow for many years with little care! Perennial basil, Cuban oregano, Vietnamese coriander, (perennial cilantro)and more… Tea plants such as mamake, cranberry hibiscus, blue butterfly pea, lemongrass, mint, etc. |
date TBA Cooking & Preserving Locally Grown Food
Adopting a local diet. Figuring out how to use new food plants can be more challenging than growing the plants! Many of your favorite dishes can be easily made by substituting homegrown ingredients for store bought ones. Bring your favorite local grown food recipes to share! Class followed by a local food potluck. |
Ticket pricing
Classes are only being offered as part of the entire course at this time.
Online ticketing only.
In Person Live Ticket
(online on demand access, video recordings of all classes, included in ticket price)
Limited seating
Only 50 tickets available!
Full 25 class course in Tropical Subsistence Gardening live in person in Kapoho Hi.
Includes guided tours, hands on demos, tastings, access to planting materials, and more, depending on the class.
This ticket includes access to online on demand videos of the classes so you can re-watch classes or view missed classes.
Class notes (50 pages), and 4 page data table of Top 100+ key food and mulch plants, are included as downloads.
Address and directions will be shared by email upon registration.
Presale Tickets (3 months in advance) $500
Early Bird Tickets (2 mo in advance) $575
Regular Price Tickets (within 1 month) $625
Scholarships may be available please contact for details.
Online On Demand Ticket
Full 25 class course in Tropical Subsistence Gardening.
Each class will be available within one week after each in-person class, classes can be re-watched.
Class notes (50 pages), and 4 page data table of Top 100+ key food and mulch plants, are included as downloads.
Emails will be sent with a link for viewing the videos and downloading class notes.
Presale Tickets (3 months in advance) $250
Early Bird Tickets (2 mo in advance) $275
Regular Price Tickets(within 1 month) $300
Scholarships may be available please contact for details.
Classes are only being offered as part of the entire course at this time.
Online ticketing only.
In Person Live Ticket
(online on demand access, video recordings of all classes, included in ticket price)
Limited seating
Only 50 tickets available!
Full 25 class course in Tropical Subsistence Gardening live in person in Kapoho Hi.
Includes guided tours, hands on demos, tastings, access to planting materials, and more, depending on the class.
This ticket includes access to online on demand videos of the classes so you can re-watch classes or view missed classes.
Class notes (50 pages), and 4 page data table of Top 100+ key food and mulch plants, are included as downloads.
Address and directions will be shared by email upon registration.
Presale Tickets (3 months in advance) $500
Early Bird Tickets (2 mo in advance) $575
Regular Price Tickets (within 1 month) $625
Scholarships may be available please contact for details.
Online On Demand Ticket
Full 25 class course in Tropical Subsistence Gardening.
Each class will be available within one week after each in-person class, classes can be re-watched.
Class notes (50 pages), and 4 page data table of Top 100+ key food and mulch plants, are included as downloads.
Emails will be sent with a link for viewing the videos and downloading class notes.
Presale Tickets (3 months in advance) $250
Early Bird Tickets (2 mo in advance) $275
Regular Price Tickets(within 1 month) $300
Scholarships may be available please contact for details.
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Still need more info?
Check out the promo videos from our 2019-2020 class series below.
Or check out our YouTube channel for even more educational videos.
Classes in the New 2023-2024 course have been slightly modified from the past class offerings belowwith additions, restructuring, some classes have been combined, etc. I am always working to improve the classes and this new course of classes is going to be far and away the best ever with addition of demo videos during class, and all new Online on Demand Options! You can watch and re-watch classes anytime you have internet access(after scheduled class dates). All of the information in the teaser videos below will be covered as well as new material on small livestock, more tropical fruit, my favorite tools and how to use them, and more!
The videos from past classes below will give you a good idea what to expect from the upcoming classes. The preview videos are shot at a different farm than where the new classes will be held.
2019-2020 Past Class Promo Videos:
Sample class handout, 2 pages per class, 50 pages total for the series.
2019 Flyer PDF for complete series with dates and info.
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