Daily Blog Q's 
Save seeds?
It's important to save seeds because they allow for the the growing of new plants (most likely edible or use able plants)
Watershed?
an area of land that encompasses a mountain or valley that collects water (mostly from rain to stream to lakes to ocean)
Covercrops?
short term crops that cover the soil (after harvests) and keep it from washing into the ocean. Also replenishes nitrogen (buckweed, sunn hemp, oats, rye, perennial peanut, and black eyed peas)
Native hot / dry?
-Aweoweo
-Uki Uki
-pohinahina
-hibiscus
-Pau ki'i aka
Day time line 
Learning about plants with Mrs. Emma 
Propogate: to grow a plant from the parts of another plant
Node: part of plant in which leaves, vines, and branches outcrop
Succor: a "baby plant" growing off of a larger "mother plant"
Purple pole bean seeds with Jason 
Business meeting? 
Stephanie: conservation planner
She works w/ farmers
She uses practices to manipulate water by changing the land (to slow down/speed up runoff)
This can be utilized by farmers to irrigate crops
Ways to do this:
-diversions (trenches)
-tree/shrub establishment
-fences
Cover crops: short term crops that cover the soil (after harvests) and keep it from washing into the ocean. Also replenishes nitrogen (buckweed, sun hemp, oats, rye, perennial peanut, and black eyed peas
Helps farmers increase profits, protects the ocean, and increases crop goodness
Island making/study of water flow 
Watershed: an area of land that encompasses a mountain or valley that collects water (mostly from rain to stream to lakes to ocean)
Confluence: when two rivers join (def: when water flows together)
Tributary: where water meets before going to the ocean
Lunch 
Circle time 
No notes, only a game
Planting a native plants garden with Leilani   
Really cool plants that survive in Hawaii's environment  without too much  water
Indigenous: Found around the world naturally without human disturbance
Endemic: Only found naturally within one location in the world naturally
-aweoweo
-Uki Uki
-pohinahina
-hibiscus
-Pau ki'i aka 
Field planted 2 years ago that has survived without water


Welcome to team STRAWBERRY! 
Our first day was so fun. We learned a lot about plants  they are  amazing . Here are some things to help you  know more.

Why is it important  to save seeds? - Seed banks allow the preserving of plants that may go extinct for some reason. We also have food security  with these banks.

What is a watershed? - An area of land that encompasses  mountains/valleys that collects water.Why do farmers use cover crops?Cover crops preserve  the top soil and allow nitrogen to be added. Nitrogen is needed for plants to grow nice and tall. Also it prevents run off.

What are some native plants that can tolerate  hot/dry climates? - Aweoweo Uki Uki Pohinahina Hibiscus Pau ki'i aka These plants are native to Hawaii. They do not require  watering after they have settled in. We planted a few new native plants. There was quite a few bugs, I was told this means that the soil is healthy.

In this picture, we are in coffee plants and we are harvesting coffee seeds. ​

​This is Nick smashing the mango.

Q1. As hermaphrodite  is a plant that is both male and female. It reproduces asexual so the plant pollinates itself and makes its own  babies.
Q2. The 3 ways plants get pollinated are by people, animals or by the plants themselves. People do it manually , animals like bees and other things do Pollination and plants that are hermaphrodite pollinate themselves.
Q3. DNA technology has influenced the process of improving crops because now we know what we are dealing with and owner we can improve the things we are making so that we can make the things live longer and how we can protect them.

​A hermaphrodite is a flower that has both male and female parts for pollonation.

A few ways plants can get pollinated are by insects, such as bees. Another way plants can get polinated is by hand, using special techniques. Plants can also be pollinated naturally, from elements such as wind. A final way that plants can become polinated is actually if they are hermaphrodites, meaning that they are able to self polinate.
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DNA technology has influenced the way that we breed crops, because we are able to breed plants to be able to form a resistance to certain diseases. ​

​Questions:
1. Hermaphrodite is a organism like a papaya that has a female and male part for reproduction for plants only.
2. Three ways to pollinate is bees or animals, humans, and self pollinate.
3. DNA technology influenced the process of improving crops by making them disease and pest proof.

In this picture, the farm manger, Taylor explains on how we identify male and female papayas and how they can reproduce. ​

​Here are the coffee trees and still reproducing which is why the color is green. When the color is red it means it's ready to harvest and to make a coffee.

Questions: 
1) Beneficial insects in agriculture  are important  because with out them we would have to resort to dangerous pesticides  or our crop would die. Also, the insects help pollinate the plant, they collect pollen and bring it to other plants and it pollinates.
2) Insects can be beneficial in different systems because they can function as pollinaters, predators or decomposers. Each insect has their own process on how they support the plants.
3) Yield Potential  is to choice which plants is better and which plants can benefit you more. Yield Potential is to give all the nutrients that plants needed to grow and produce better seeds

Here is a picture of a white cabbage moth that was caught and had to handle it very careful cause the wings are very delicate.
This is a grasshopper that was caught. Too big for any of the vials but it was interesting. Shout out to group 3  who caught it.

​This is a grasshopper that was caught. Too big for any of the vials but it was interesting. Shout out to group 3  who caught it.

Having fun during lunch. Smile Tisha.
Team Tribal will reign victorious.

​This is Adam he talked to us about bees and how the queen acts and what are some dangers to the honeybees and how to determine if they are male or female by looking at the comb size.

Questions:
1. Beneficial insects are important to agriculture cause there are different types of beneficial insects like pollinators, and predators. Pollinators are like bees or butterflies who fly from flower to flower sipping nectar and collecting pollen. Predators are insects like ladybugs and wasps and stink bugs that hunt and eat insects that damage and harm plants. For example ladybugs and aphids, the aphid damages the plant by sucking the water out of it and the ladybugs eat the aphids.
2. Bees are not only for pollinating flowers people use the bees honey for food and the beeswax for wax candles and it smells good.
3. Yield potential is like the basic needs of a plant so if you give more carbon dioxide to a plant then it will give you more oxygen maybe. Well YOLO.

First Taylor came over and we played a game where the group leaders wrote names of fruits and vegetables on tape and stuck them on our foreheads and we had to guess them. Tisha had pear, Kaliko had the broccoli, Pam had plum, and I had the bean.
After Taylor's story we went to the garden then told all the unexperienced  students about papayas and there genders which one is a male, which one is a female, and which one is a hermaphodite. Also why the agriculture markets like the hermaphodite papayas then the fertilized female papayas

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Then we went to the garden there was a lot of plants and insects. I took a picture of this beautiful sunflower. Nice job Ben that garden is like a dream garden. Also nice job Brandon at taking the picture.#propicturetakingskillsThen we went to the rain garden and got to tell what the rain garden does and how it helps.

​Then we went to the coffee plants or trees we wanted to go into the maze and we're allowed it was huge this picture is the top canopy of the coffee. Me and Kaliko were able to get out but someone named Nathan had a death wish cause he didn't how far he was in the coffee maze.

​This is a picture of the two bees that Kaliko sucked  it up. If you have a siphon and are scared of bugs then suck it up.