Blessing for youth garden today

Advertiser Staff

Fifth- and sixth-grade Waimanalo youths, the University of Hawai'i and an organic farmer have joined to cultivate a Hawaiian garden where the children will plant native species and learn how to prevent pollution runoff.

The garden is a project of Hui Malama o ke Kai and Kimberly Clark, an organic farmer.

The project is financed by the first pollution grant awarded by the Kailua Bay Advisory Council, which was formed from a lawsuit brought against the city for thousands of wastewater violations at its Kailua and Kane'ohe treatment plants.

The garden, on 1 1/2 acres of land on the University of Hawai'i Experimental Station in Waimanalo, 41-698 Ahiki St., will be blessed at 3:30 p.m. today.