Sustainable Foods- School Gardening

 Discription of Mililani

• elevation of 627 ft

• Total land area of 6.6 sq mi

• 0.0 sq mi of water

• located near the center of the island of O’ahu, between two volcanic mountains

Climate

• 24 in. of rain per year

• 0 in. of snow

• on average of about 269 sunny days in a year

• the highs (july) is 84 degrees, the lows (jan) are 64 degrees

• uv index is 9.3

Environment/physical context

• Crop needs a good amount of water

• Lots of sunlight

• Keep crops in natural environment

• some plants such as lettuce needs to be elevated to keep away from slugs and snails