Aloha Dinner
and special evening talk
Sunday, February 10

The conference will close with a social hour, aloha dinner, and after-dinner special talk. All attendees and their guests are encouraged to attend. As reservations must be made in advance, payment for this event is required in advance. The social hour is a no-host open bar but the dinner must be prepaid. Prepayment is made on registration page

6:00 Social hour at the Plantation
7:00 Aloha dinner and special talk
9:00 Conference adjourns

http://mauitropicalplantation.com/

Fun Facts from the Plantation:

Sugarcane takes two years to mature. One ton of water is needed to produce a single pound of sugar.

Heliconia range from 3' to 20' and come in nearly every color of the rainbow.

Versatile green ti leaf is a good luck symbol believed to keep evil spirits away and is often found planted by the entrances to homes in Hawaii.

The Malaysian starfruit tree is actually a native of China and India.

Hawaii produces the only commercial coffee crop in the United States.

Kamiya Papaya is a self-pollinating hermaphrodite with both male and female flowers.

Each trunk of our dwarf Brazilian apple bananas bears only one stalk in its lifetime.

Taro (kalo) is valued by Polynesian people as a rich source of carbohydrate and for its medicinal and supernatural powers.

Mango trees take five years to bear fruit but will produce for 100 years.

Guava juice has five times more vitamin C than orange juice.

It takes 300 pounds of pressure per square inch to crack the ¼"-thick shell of the Macadamia nut.

No machine has yet been invented that can husk a coconut, but take our tour and see your driver do it by hand in under 60 seconds!