Come to a coffee hour to wish Cheryl Ernst (OCS) the best for her retirement! The party will take place 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. in Gilmore 212 on Friday, August 31. 

Graduate Assistant Russell Galanti spent the summer at the foot of Tanzania’s Mount Meru as a Trellis Fund fellow, working to improve child malnutrition through increased vegetable production with the use of sustainable agriculture.

Scott Nikaido and Ethel Villalobos (both PEPS) were featured in a Ka Leo article on the class on beekeeping that they teach, Beekeeping in the Tropics: Introduction to Honeybee Health and Management. It is offered through the UH Manoa Outreach College, though Scott hopes to offer classes for credit at UH in the future.

Responding to popular demand, the Kona Extension Office offered two hands-on coffee grafting workshops for coffee producers last week. Alyssa Cho, Stuart T. Nakamoto, and Andrea Kawabata provided participants with an overview on the coffee root-knot nematode project and the important points of how and why to graft coffee plants.

For those applying for the Maui County FY 2019 grant competition, proposals are due directly to Maui County administrator Cindy Reeves at reevesc@hawaii.edu before 4 p.m. on June 14. Projects are expected to be completed within the calendar year, no extensions, and the budget needs to be firm.