HIP Agriculture’s immersion courses provide dynamic opportunities to explore ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable agriculture, empowering individuals to create positive change as conscious community leaders.
HIP Agriculture integrates an island-wide network of agricultural experts, environmental activists and community leaders with hands-on field training, lectures, workshops and site visits.
What we bring to the table
Course curriculum includes:
- Organic farm management, production, and distribution
- Permaculture, agroforestry, natural farming
- Food as medicine, nutrition, and food preparation
- Sustainable green vocations
- Natural and bamboo building
- Traditional Hawaiian farming, Lo’i restoration, Polynesian plant propagation
- Animal husbandry, and home dairy
- Medicinal plant identification and preparation
- Mycology
- Community living and effective communication practices
Students will camp in a beautiful orchard with access to a community kitchen, bathroom, and hot shower. Eating from the land as much as possible we provide an abundance of farm fresh garden vegetables, our locally grown starch crops include taro, sweet potatoes, breadfruit, yams, cassava, and plantains. Varying by season we celebrate fresh fruits such as mango, papaya, banana, avocado, lemons, limes, oranges, tangerines, starfruit, lychee, soursop, jack fruit, rambutan, guava, passion fruit, dragon fruit and many other tropical delicacies. We provide milk, eggs, occasional meat and fish as well as organic bulk grains, legumes, oils, spices and teas.
Course Calendar
Summer Course, 2012
June 4th- June 29th (4 weeks)
Tuition: $1950
Apply Here—-> Summer Course Application
Thursday May 31st and Saturday June 2nd- Airport Pickups ($20.00 fee), Receiving of Students
Fall Course, 2012
October 1st- October 29th (4 weeks)
Tuition: $1950
Apply HereFall 2012 Course Application
Application Deadline*: September 10, 2012
