Alternate Root

Alternate Root members, in coordination with local nonprofits, organize biannual coastal cleanups along protected heritage lands about a mile away.

Panax is an easy-to-propagate vertically-oriented tree, great to use as a palisade plant, vine trellis, and biomass producer.

Alternate Root has established a Willing Workers on Organic Farms host account as one path towards finding prospective community members. Starting in 2025 WWOOFers will help implement the permaculture design at Iolani.

With the official Food Security Microgrant period being over, we take the time to evaluate all of our projects and reassess our priorities going forward.

Halfway through the grant period is a good time to provide you with an update on how our projects are going. Read about progress on beekeeping, food dehydration, and crucial passive water flow infrastructure work–from graywater taro patches to an integrated duck/tilapia/greens aquaponics system.

Jasmine just finished a 6 week online building-with-bamboo course through Bamboo U in Bali. The Green School is an elementary campus built completely of bamboo, showcasing new techniques. Here Jasmine walks you through what she learned.

We’ve been awarded $5000 to add and improve food systems at Iolani, including projects in passive food dehydration, beekeeping, water storage/irrigation, and aquaculture.  Read the full grant proposal here.

This month, a family member helped out by bringing his drone and expertise to take a high resolution orthomosaic image of the land, vastly improving our ability to visualize existing and planned land resources.

For the first year of our permaculture design process, we are making observations of the land, but no large or permanent changes. We are also inventorying the land’s and community’s resources.

From February to April, 2022, we hosted Rachel Pompe as our first intern at Iolani. Here Jasmine goes into detail about what it takes to adjust from mainland to island living, and what specific farm and food projects Rachel helped with.