
Aloha Everyone!
This Saturday, November 2, we will celebrate Arbor Day by giving away free Kukui Nut trees, from 9am to 3pm. Come and get and plant your Kukui Nut tree to celebrate in Arbor Day.
The Kukui Nut tree is rooted in Hawaiian culture and medicine. Known also as the Candlenut Tree, the Kukui purifies the water system with its strong oils, such that when you look up the mountain and see where the Kukui Nut grows, you will also see where the water flows. The nuts flow down the gulches and root, continuing to purify the water from mauka to makai.
Many of you have Kukui Nut leis, with polished shells in black, brown and black and white. The nut inside is edible, but medicinal in strength. A roasted nut can be eaten, chopped fine, on fish, in poke, or in salads. Uncle Abel used to scrape the innards of the rotting nuts and he had different medicinal uses for the tan, grey and black rotted nut. A Hawaiian knows the benefit of no waste. In Hawaiian times, the nut was lit in the opened shell and it would burn all night, such are the oils. In the moonlight, the Kukui Nut tree looms large; its leaves reflect light for all to see.

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