Crop Swap & Honeybees

[Catrinka Holland]

 WAIMEA’S NEW SATURDAY ‘CROP SWAP’: Come share the harvest. 12:30-3 p.m., Saturdays, Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 12, 20, 27 and Dec. 4 & 11, 2010.  At Mala’ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School. Trade your surplus produce for foods grown by your neighbors. Open to everyone. If you don’t have produce to share, just lend a hand.  Excess food donated to Waimea food pantries. For info call Nicole Milne (987-9210).

 HONEYBEE MOVIE: The movie, “Queen of the Sun: What are the bees telling us?” is playing November 9th to November 11th at Honoka'a People's Theatre.  Queen of the Sun is a profound, alternative look at the global honeybee crisis from Taggart Siegel, award-winning director of The Real Dirt on Farmer John. Film.com calls Queen of the Sun, "stunning... as soulful as it is scientific, as uplifting as it is alarming." Wednesday, November 10th will feature local beekeepers. On November 9th & 11th there will be a Double Feature of Queen of the Sun and Taggart Siegel's previous film, The Real Dirt on Farmer John.  WWW.QUEENOFTHESUN.COM