It is with great sadness and appreciation that we relay to you that our founder, Mary Moragne Cooke, passed away on Saturday, June 25th, 2022. Mary has passed along a baton of stewardship, giving back to the community with the utmost grace and humility that we can all carry forward. Memorial plans for her will be arranged later this year when, hopefully, COVID conditions subside. Mary M. Cooke dedicated her life to community service and to the Hawaiʻi that she loved so much. In addition to founding Mānoa Heritage Center with her late husband Sam Cooke, Mary founded Mālama Mānoa in the early 1990s. She served as a Trustee for Punahou School, the National Trust for Historical Preservation and as President of the Garden Club of Honolulu. We are so very grateful to you Mary and will miss you from the bottom of our hearts.

In our new beach garden area, the ʻāweoweo (Chenopodium oahuense) or Hawaiian Goosefoot is flourishing. Does the name of this endemic plant sound familiar? It may if you know your fish 🐟 ʻĀweoweo shares its name with the endemic Hawaiian Bigeye. This duality comes from the Kumulipo or Hawaiian creation chant where things are created in a dualistic manner meaning that when something is created in the ocean there is often a counterpart on land or in the air or even both! ʻĀweoweo stems can have red streaks and if you crush the leaves it has a fishy smell, both of these characteristics matching its marine counterpart. #NativeHawaiianPlants #NativeHawaiianBeachPlants #EndemicHawaiianPlants #Āweoweo #ChenopodiumOahuense #HawaiianGoosefoot #HawaiianBigeye #FridayFlower #Kumulipo #FloraFriday #FridayFlora

☀️ Happy Aloha Friday! 🌺 Don’t forget to sign up for our June Kahaukani Conversations with UHM English Professor Candace Fujikane! Ms. Fujikane will be discussing the moʻolelo of Keaomelemele and its relevance for our understanding of climate change events happening today. 🦎Register on our website or go to bit.ly/mooprotector #ManoaHeritageCenter #KahaukaniConversations #VirtualKahaukaniConversations #Keaomelemele #ClimateChange #MālamaĀina #MānoaValley

There are still spots available in our Introduction to Papermaking for High Schoolers. Students will learn about the history of papermaking and its contemporary uses while also making your own using moulds, deckles, and fibers pulped in a Hollander beater. Paper needs to dry overnight so you will need to return on Monday, June 27 between 9am and 4pm to get your dried paper. Limited to 6 students. 📜 Register on our website or go to bit.ly/intropaperhs #ManoaHeritageCenter #MHCPaperClub #IntroductionToPapermaking #HollanderBeater #Papermaking #ManoaValley

There’s still space in our upcoming Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke workshop with Moani Hibbard of @aoolaskin. In this botanical workshop participants will create their own good-for-the-body natural skincare with exfoliating salt body scrub and refreshing fruit or chocolate face mask. Participants will start the day giving back to the 'āina and being stewards of the land by doing some weeding in the garden. Then they will transition into the classroom and explore how some of the herbs they will be using can benefit the skin both inside and out before creating their products. 🌹Go to our website to register or visit bit.ly/bodyscrub625 #ManoaHeritageCenter #MaKaHanaKaIkeWorkshops #BotanicalSkinCare #AoOlaSkin #ExfoliatingSaltScrub #PowderFaceMask #ManoaValley

Weʻve got some fun things coming up in June! 🔖 Advanced Papermaking: Shape to Form to Art: Use adhesive-backed foam to create positive and negative shapes that will be connected to other materials such as wire and fabric as you create a work of art. Special hand-dyed tissue will be available to add color. 🎼 Bamboo Hand-Flute Making: Make a hand-flute out of locally harvested bamboo to take home along with an intro to basic flute techniques. 🔖 Intro to Papermaking for High School Students: Learn about the history of papermaking and its contemporary uses while also making your own using moulds, deckles, and fibers pulped in a Holland beater 🦎 Elemental Mapping of Abundance: Ms. Fujikane will be discussing the moʻolelo of Keaomelemele and its relevance for our understanding of climate change events happening today. 🌺 Botanical Body Scrub & Powder Face Mask: Create your own good-for-the-body natural skincare with Moani Hibbard of @aoolaskin. Participants will make an exfoliating salt body scrub and refreshing fruit or chocolate face mask. ✨✨ For more information and to register visit our website ✨✨ #ManoaHeritageCenter #ManoaValley #MaKaHanaKaIkeWorkshops #BambooHandFlute #JesseK#BotanicalBodyScrub #AoOlaSkin #BotanicalFaceMask #Papermaking #MHCPaperClub #PapermakingClasses #VitrtualKahaukaniConversations #ElementalMappingOfAbundance #CandaceFujikane #ClimateChange #KeaomelemeleMoolelo

Today is such a special day! Not only is it #EndangeredSpeciesDay, it’s also #WorldBeeDay! Here at MHC we have several endangered native plants in our gardens such as: Munroidendron, Koʻoloaʻula, ʻIhiʻihilauākea (the Hawaiian 4-leaf clover), Maʻo Hau Hele (Hawaiʻi’s state flower), ʻUhiʻuhi, and Bonamia. We also love bees 💛🐝 They’re great pollinators and help to keep our ʻāina healthy! Some bee favorites in our gardens are munroidendron, comfrey, ʻilima, and ʻōhiʻa mamo. #ManoaHeritageCenter #ManoaValley #EndemicEndangeredSpecies #EndemicHawaiianPlants #NativeHawaiianPlants #EndangeredSpeciesDay #Munroidendron #Kooloaula #Ihiihilauākea #MaoHauHele #Uhiuhi #Bonamia #BeeLover #Bees🐝 #Ilima #SidaFallax #Comfrey #OhiaMamo #OhiaLove

Happy Birthday to MHC’s badass Digital Content Specialist - the woman behind the posts. We love you @elfishangel83 ❤️!

Our winged beans in the Elpidio and Nobuko Acopan Filipino Garden are flourishing. Known in the Philippines as Pallang (Ilocano) or Sigarilyas (Tagalog), winged beans are used in traditional Filipino dishes such as pinakbet (vegetable stew usually with a protein such as seafood or pork) and dinengdeng (Filipino vegetable stew with fish) winged beans are a nutritious and delicious vegetable. With a flavor similar to asparagus they are high in protein, antioxidants, and many vitamins and minerals with the highest calcium content of all legumes. One fun fact about winged beans is that all parts of the plant are edible! 🌱 Flowers can be used as food color and edible decoration 🌱 Tubers are rich in protein with a nutty flavor 🌱 Dried seeds can be made into flour or roasted and used as a coffee substitute 🌱 Tender immature seed pods are most widely eaten 🌱 Leaves are prepared and eaten similar to spinach 🌱 Beans can be made into milk, much like soy #WingedBeans #Sigarilyas #Pallang #PsophocarpusTetragonolobus #ElpidioAndNobukoAcopanGarden #FilipinoGarden #FilipinoPlants #ManoaHeritageCenter #FridayFlower #FlowerFriday #AsianAmericanPacificIslanderMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth