Program
Pono Outdoor Program runs Monday-Thursday, 9am-2pm and Friday 9am-1pm
Locations include:
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Beaches (swimming day) – learning ocean safety, foraging, and water distillation.
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'Īao Valley heritage gardens (swimming day) – learning natural first aid, foraging, bookwork, and water filtration and building.
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Makawao Forest Reserve – learning shelters, foraging, meditation, and bookwork, First Aid.
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Olinda Forest – learning foraging, bookwork, meditation, first aid, fire building, and shelters.
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Farms around Maui – learning land rejuvenation, farming skills, invasive species, and feeding cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, and much more.
Curriculum
Most students use The Good and Beautiful Curriculum; however, many families have their own books, and assignments and even choose no curriculum. It is the families choice and their free right to give their children what they would like.
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Life Skills
Life skills taught at Pono Outdoor Program include regenerative farming, fire building (without store-bought tools), water filtration, shelter building, wild food foraging, medicinal plant identification, wound healing in the wilderness, and much more.
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