Nā lāʻau olakino, nā keiki olakino!

Ma ʻOkakopa 6, 2012, ʻo Canopy, kahi hui kūʻokoʻa kūloko, a me California ReLeaf Network lālā, i hoʻolaʻa ʻia no ke kanu ʻana i nā kumulāʻau no nā kaiāulu olakino, e hui pū i nā hui hui a me nā hui manawaleʻa kaiāulu e kanu i 120 malu a me nā kumulāʻau hua. Ma ka hui pū ʻana me Microsoft Corp., Odwalla Plant-A-Tree, Cal Fire's Urban and Community Forestry Program, a me kekahi mau kumu, e kōkua ʻo Canopy i ka hana ʻana i nā pā kula olakino, ʻōmaʻomaʻo, a ʻoi aku hoʻi i kono ʻia no nā keiki ʻoi aku ma mua o 500 ma Brentwood Academy a me 350 ma Ronald McNair Academy ma East Palo Alto.

 

Manaʻo ʻia ʻoi aku ma mua o 100 mau limahana hui a me nā kaiāulu e hāʻawi i ka lima ma ke kanu lāʻau kaiaulu āpau. E kōkua kēia kanu ʻana i ka pahuhopu o Canopy's "Healthy Trees, Healthy Kids!" hoʻolālā.

 

"ʻO ka pahuhopu o ka hoʻolālā e kanu i nā kumulāʻau 1,000 no nā keiki i ka makahiki 2015 a hoʻomaka i ka pani ʻana i ka 'āpau ʻōmaʻomaʻo' ma waena o nā kaiāulu waiwai a me nā mea ʻilihune," wahi a Catherine Martineau, ka luna hoʻokele o Canopy.

 

Ma muli o ka hoʻoikaika ʻana o Canopy, 850 mau haumāna kula haʻahaʻa a me waena ma Brentwood Academy a me Ronald McNair Academy e pōmaikaʻi mai nā pono pololei a pololei ʻole i hāʻawi ʻia e nā kumulāʻau. Loaʻa nā pōmaikaʻi pololei i ka ea maʻemaʻe a me ka wai, ka pale ʻana mai nā kukuna UV ʻino a me nā hopena noʻonoʻo maikaʻi e pili ana i kahi kokoke o nā wahi kūlohelohe. Loaʻa i nā pōmaikaʻi kūʻokoʻa ke ʻano ola ʻoi aku ka ʻoi aku o ka hoʻoikaika ʻana i ka hoʻonui ʻana i ka hana waho, e kōkua ana i ka pale ʻana i ka momona o nā kamaliʻi a me ka maʻi diabetes kamaliʻi.

 

ʻO nā ʻano lāʻau malu e kanu ʻia, ʻo ia ka Forest Green Oak, Cork Oak, Valley Oak, Southern Live Oak, Bosque Elm, a me Silver Linden, ʻo ia hoʻi nā mea a pau e hoʻomanawanui i ka maloʻo a kūpono i ke aniau o kēia ʻāina. Loaʻa nā ʻano lāʻau hua i ka avocado, sapote, a me nā ʻano citrus.

 

E kanu ʻia ka Bosque Elms me ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka 'DriWater' kahi manawa hou i hoʻokuʻu ʻia i ka wai irrigation solution hiki ke hoʻohana ʻia ma kahi o ka wai maʻamau e mālama i ka wai a mālama i nā kumukūʻai hoʻokomo.

 

Ma ke awakea, ma waena o ke kakahiaka a me ke ahiahi, e ʻākoakoa nā mea manawaleʻa ma ke alo o ke kula ʻo Brentwood no ke kanu lāʻau ʻahaʻaina a me kahi kiʻi pūʻulu me nā luna i koho ʻia, nā mea kākoʻo kanu a me nā ʻelele o ka Apana Kula ʻo Ravenswood.

 

Papa inoa piha o nā mea kākoʻo o Canopy's Healthy Trees, Healthy Kids! kumu: Cal Fire Urban and Community Forestry, Microsoft, Odwalla Plant-A-Tree, Morgan Family Foundation, Sand Hill Foundation, The Dean Witter Foundation, Peery Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Patagonia, Palo Alto Community Foundation, ka David & ʻO Lucile Packard Foundation, Alliance for Community Trees, Change Happens Foundation, Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, California ReLeaf, National NeighborWoods Month.