Protect Hawai`i and

Buy Local for the Holidays!

Join the movement and start thinking of how we can all support
Hawai`i growers during this holiday season!

WHEN: Sunday, November 14, 2010

9:00 a.m. to Noon
WHERE: Hawai`i Department of Agriculture
Plant Quarantine Branch
1849 Auiki Street (near Sand Island)
FREE PUBLIC EVENT!!!

♦ Floral designers will demonstrate and display beautiful holiday floral arrangements using only
locally grown flowers and foliage.
Featured Floral Designers:
Alan Tada, Flowers Forever - Kaua`i
Eileen Takayesu, Town and Country Designs - Maui
Jenny Vierra, Alluvion, Inc. - O`ahu
Kui Wong, Kui and I - Hawai`i Island
Flowers Donated by: Hawai`i Tropical Flower Council
♦ Make and take a small floral arrangement made of locally grown flowers and foliage.
(while supplies last)
♦ Learn about invasive species and how buying local produce and flowers helps protect Hawai`i
from hitchhiking pests and plant diseases.

Presented by: 4 Ag Hawai`i, Hawai`i Department of Agriculture,

UH Manoa - College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Hawai`i Farm
Bureau Federation, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Kanu Hawai`i,
4 Ag Hawai`i Contact: (808) 225-5777 Ben Franklin Stores, the Hawai`i Tropical Flower Council, The Nature Conservancy