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Careers Event Calendar Buy Cooke Collection Art Book Contact Mānoa Heritage Center Mānoa Heritage Center Ka Hale Hō‘ike‘ike ‘O Mānoa Heritage Kipa Mai Visit Nā Kumu Educators Mo‘olelo Stories Kāko‘o Mai Support Donate Now About Careers Event Calendar Buy Cooke Collection Art Book Contact E Komo Mai Welcome to Mānoa Heritage Center – a 3.5 acre living classroom that promotes an understanding of Hawaiʻi’s cultural and natural heritage. Visit the Center Come and be inspired! A guided tour of Mānoa Heritage Center gardens and Kūkaʻōʻō Heiau introduces visitors to the beauty of Hawaiʻi’s unique cultural and natural heritage. MHC Public Programming Update Aloha mai kākou, We have returned our public tour capacity to 10 guests (max) on weekday afternoons and select Saturday mornings. Please see Event Calendar for specific dates and times and to register for a tour. In addition, we ask if you are not feeling well, to please consider staying home and rescheduling your visit. Thank you for helping us to keep our community safe. We hope to see you soon! We want to leave you with this quote shared by our friends at the Polynesian Voyaging Society: We are each made for goodness, love, and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.” – Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu PLAN A VISIT Enjoy this introduction to Mānoa Heritage Center created by recent Mid-Pacific graduate Garrison Lagapa (class of 2018). This short film was a senior project, and part of receiving his Hawaiian Studies certificate. Connect - Learn - Share We are committed to working with the community to nurture responsible stewardship practices and invite you to join our ʻohana as volunteers and partners. VOLUNTEER BECOME A PARTNER Saturday, May 11 Kokedama Workshop with Dianne Ige Join Oʻahu-based artist Dianne Ige and learn how to make a kokedama (moss balls with plants)—each participant can take up to two home with them. Saturday, May 11 Aloha Mama: Plant Make and Take for Mother’s Day Pot an orchid or put together some flowers and greens to give to mom for Mother’s Day. Saturday, May 25 ʻOhana Kāhuli Come learn about Hawaiʻi’s original super decomposer and why these tiny animals are so vital to the health of our watershed. @manoaheritagecenter on Instagram • Follow Lei Day at Mānoa Heritage Center was spent making lei with University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa staff and faculty, and our wonderful educators Keʻala and Jenny led a small group in making ti leaf lei. In 1929, Lei Day was officially recognized as a holiday in Hawaiʻi, however the first Lei Day was observed in 1927. A celebration of Hawaiʻi’s culture and the art of making lei, Lei Day stands as a symbol of aloha and is one of our island’s best smelling and most colorful holidays. 2 weeks ago View on Instagram | 1/9 To conclude this month of celebrating native plants, we set our sights on the wiliwili, also known as the Erithryina sandwicensis. Wiliwili, named for the way their seed pods twist and turn, is the only endemic Erythrina to Hawaiʻi, with many relatives spanning Africa, Asia and the Americas. Although their gorgeous blooms won’t be present until Oct—Nov, this dryland tree is currently entering the deciduous period of their seasonal cycle, where many of its leaves shed and is a marvel in itself! Dropping many, if not all, leaves helps the tree reduce the amount of water required to sustain itself through our hot, dry summers. The specimen on our campus has yet to flower since being planted in 2018, but the abundance of leaf litter these past few days is starting to get our hopes up—tune in later this year to see if our hunch is right! To conclude this month of celebrating native plants, we set our sights on the wiliwili, also known as the Erithryina sandwicensis. Wiliwili, named for the way their seed pods twist and turn, is the only endemic Erythrina to Hawaiʻi, with many relatives spanning Africa, Asia and the Americas. Although their gorgeous blooms won’t be present until Oct—Nov, this dryland tree is currently entering the deciduous period of their seasonal cycle, where many of its leaves shed and is a marvel in itself! Dropping many, if not all, leaves helps the tree reduce the amount of water required to sustain itself through our hot, dry summers. The specimen on our campus has yet to flower since being planted in 2018, but the abundance of leaf litter these past few days is starting to get our hopes up—tune in later this year to see if our hunch is right! To conclude this month of celebrating native plants, we set our sights on the wiliwili, also known as the Erithryina sandwicensis. Wiliwili, named for the way their seed pods twist and turn, is the only endemic Erythrina to Hawaiʻi, with many relatives spanning Africa, Asia and the Americas. Although their gorgeous blooms won’t be present until Oct—Nov, this dryland tree is currently entering the deciduous period of their seasonal cycle, where many of its leaves shed and is a marvel in itself! Dropping many, if not all, leaves helps the tree reduce the amount of water required to sustain itself through our hot, dry summers. The specimen on our campus has yet to flower since being planted in 2018, but the abundance of leaf litter these past few days is starting to get our hopes up—tune in later this year to see if our hunch is right! • Follow To conclude this month of celebrating native plants, we set our sights on the wiliwili, also known as the Erithryina sandwicensis. Wiliwili, named for the way their seed pods twist and turn, is the only endemic Erythrina to Hawaiʻi, with many relatives spanning Africa, Asia and the Americas. Although their gorgeous blooms won’t be present until Oct—Nov, this dryland tree is currently entering the deciduous period of their seasonal cycle, where many of its leaves shed and is a marvel in itself! Dropping many, if not all, leaves helps the tree reduce the amount of water required to sustain itself through our hot, dry summers. The specimen on our campus has yet to flower since being planted in 2018, but the abundance of leaf litter these past few days is starting to get our hopes up—tune in later this year to see if our hunch is right! 2 weeks ago View on Instagram | 2/9 • Follow Hōʻawa (Pittosporum hosmeri) is an endemic shrub/tree whose fruit was once a primary food source for the ‘alalā, the only remaining endemic corvid (crow) in Hawaiʻi—which is now extinct in the wild. The genus name, Pittosporum, derived from the Greek word for pitch-seed,” refers to its large sticky seeds, and the specific epithet hosmeri refers to Hawaiʻi’s first territorial forester, Ralph Sheldon Hosmer. Hosmer, acting on behalf of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association and the Territorial Government, guided forth Act 44 on April 25th, 1903, placing a quarter of Hawaiian lands, which consisted of government buildings and private holdings, into Hawaiʻi’s Forest Reserve System. This was to combat both the drought that threatened economic interests of plantation owners, as well as to aid against the timber shortage plaguing the U.S. at the time. Much like the symbiotic relationship between the hō’awa and ʻalalā, Hosmer realized that humans could not survive without a resilient watershed. Mānoa Heritage Center sends our mahalo to Hawaiian foresters of the past, present, and future, for planting trees whose shade they will never sit in. I ka wā ma mua, ka wā ma hope. 2 weeks ago View on Instagram | 3/9 • Follow Our latest quarterly conservation lecture—Kahaukani Conversations—featured Dr. Patrick Hart, a biologist and avian researcher working for the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. In an hour-long Zoom discussion, Dr. Hart gave an insightful explanation about the extensive repertoire of bird song that can be vocalized by Hawaiʻi’s native birds—as well as how that vocabulary is shrinking due to our feathered friends’ dwindling population. You can check out the full recording of Dr. Hart’s talk on our YouTube account by...