MALP Educational Meeting—Free to the public

Topic: Low Impact Methods for controlling Invasive Insects and Weed Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 Place: Maui Community Service Bldg next to CTHAR Extension Services (Map) on the UH Maui campus. Time: 6:30 pm

Our speaker for the evening is Erin Arnott of Valent Corporation. Valent is the manufacturers of products such as, Safari, Distance and Di Pel. She will discuss the global spread of invasive insects and weeds. Her talk will cover low environmental impact methods of invasive pest control. Erin has spent over 20 years in the Turf and Ornamental Industry. She has extensive knowledge of pest problems both in nursery and landscape situations. Also, during the evening Terry Nutt will give a talk on the Apocynaceae family of plants. This plant family includes familiar plants such as the plumeria, allamanda, oleander, and Be-Still. Plants from this family will be brought as examples and then given away during a raffle at the end of the meeting. The raffle is always fun .

MALP Educational Meeting—Free to the public

Date:		Tuesday March 20, 2012
Place:		Maui Community Service Bldg next to CTHAR Extension Services (Map) on the UH Maui campus.
Time:		Pupus will be served at 6:30 pm and the talk will begin at 7:00.

Please come with your current small equipment questions and problems and get ready to see what the future will bring to our power tools. Our speakers for the evening are Brian Bress and Bruce Rauch from Golden Eagle Distribution. Combined they have over 30 years in the Landscape Power Tool Industry. Golden Eagle Distribution handles distribution in the United States for Echo and Shindaiwa landscape power tools. They also handle the Bear Cat line of chippers. They will discuss the care and maintenance of Shindaiwa and Echo power tools to get the most life out of your power equipment purchase. They will also discuss the new technology being developed to increase efficiency, power, reliability, and government standards in emissions. Please join us for a very informative and special evening.

MALP Educational Meeting—Free to the public

Date:		Tuesday January 24, 2012
Place:		Maui Community Service Bldg next to CTHAR Extension Services (Map) on the UH Maui campus.
Time:		Pupus will be served at 6:30 pm and the talk will begin at 7:00.

On January 24th we are proud to host guest speakers: William Merwin and Leland Miyano as they share with us their vast combined knowledge about palms. Their talk will include information on Hawaii's palms, palm growth habits and conservation efforts. William Merwin, who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and is the recent US Poet Laureate, has lived and gardened on Maui for over 30 years. Most of his focus has been on cultivating palms from around the world. He has gathered approximately 800 different species of palms, creating a truly unique palm jungle within the rainforest of Maui's north shore. His enduring gardening passion along with his legacy of being a successful poet will be preserved with the recently created "The Merwin Conservancy". Leland Miyano, a good friend of Merwin, is an artist, landscape designer and author from Oahu. Leland has years of experience working with native palms throughout Hawaii and has worked extensively with many highly respected people in the field of horticulture and design. Leland's numerous books include: Hawaii's Beautiful Tree's and Hawaii, A Floral Paradise. Leland's own 1-acre garden in Kahalu'u is renown for its design and features numerous palms. Please join us for a very informative and special evening.