LIHUE — Malama Kauai, the National Tropical Botanical Garden and the Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers will host Ken Love, executive director of the HTFG Association, to deliver two propagation workshops Saturday and Sunday. Love is known by many as a
LIHUE — Malama Kauai, the National Tropical Botanical Garden and the Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers will host Ken Love, executive director of the HTFG Association, to deliver two propagation workshops Saturday and Sunday.
Love is known by many as a “fruit hunter,” having searched over 50 countries to discover and preserve rare and exotic fruit, spending significant time in South India.
Participants will learn the art of grafting, air layering and propagation from cuttings in this three-hour, hands-on workshop. Participants will be provided a grafting knife to practice grafts under Ken’s direction and discuss the grafting of citrus, avocado, mango and starfruit.
“The art of grafting is a great skill to know,” said Scott Sloan, assistant director of NTBG’s Allerton Garden. “I encourage everyone to participate — experts and novices alike. This event is also a fundraiser for us and the majority of a standard ticket includes a year’s membership to the Kauai Chapter of Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers.”
The Saturday workshop will be held at the Kalihiwai Community Garden in Kilauea and the Sunday workshop will be at NTBG’s Education Center in Kalaheo. While walk-ins are allowed, pre-purchase of tickets in encouraged as grafting supplies are limited to the first 40 paid registrants.
Tickets are $45. Info: www.malamakauai.org or by phone at (808) 828-0685.
