Māla Student Organic Garden
The Māla serves as a community space and living laboratory to provide experiential education opportunities, particularly for the Sustainable Community Food Systems (SCFS), Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing (HIHH) and other academic programs focused on connecting students to ‘āina. Faculty, staff and student workers provide support for Māla activities, including Harvest Days (weekly on Fridays when in session), Māla Workdays (one weekend each month while in session) and regularly scheduled workshops, see the UH West Oʻahu Calendar of Events.
A primary goal of the Māla is to support student experiential learning, and Māla staff and workers are able to collaborate with faculty to provide additional innovative learning engagements, such as Māla Overview Sessions, Service Learning work sessions and extended class activities through the semester. For faculty interested in incorporating Māla experiential education into their courses, please refer to complete the Faculty request form for Māla activities at least one month in advance or two months prior to the start of the semester for extended/repeated activities for a class.
Adjacent to Classroom (D) and Lab (E) Buildings
M-F, 8:00a - 5:00p
Tasia Yamamura, Garden Supervisor
tasiay@hawaii.edu
