Become a Clone Ranger today: Feed the community by helping create food trees

Village Harvest doesn’t just glean, or gather, from trees — it makes them, and you can help with their creation, too.

Become a Clone Ranger and volunteer for the Village Harvest air layering and propagating program.

Various food trees are created and distributed to nonprofit agriculture sites, low-income housing complexes, community gardens, food pantries and others.

Three community based greenhouses also are almost up; keep an eye out for more work days to finish the third one at Olohena ‘ĀINA Center, an 87-acre agricultural park, of which the first 25 acres are now under development.

The first phase of development at Olohena ‘ĀINA Center includes 20 acres of sublicensed farm plots, 4 acres of agroforestry as well as an acre of shared facilities for farmers such as a washing and packing area, greenhouse, walk-in cold storage and meeting and business space.

Air layering events are happening islandwide. Come learn — or practice — to create new food trees for community food access efforts.

Submit your information online to participate.

Have great fruit trees from which Clone Rangers can propagate? Call or message Village Harvest at 808-828-0685.

This initiative is funded by Kaulunani Urban and Community Forestry Program, Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources and its Division of Forestry and Wildlife.

Village Harvest is a volunteer-based Kaua’i gleaning program, harvesting and donating produce to those in need.

The organization strives to bridge the gap between food waste and need by using food left over from harvests on personal properties and farms.

Learn more about Village Harvest and its programs, services and resources at the organization website.