HONOLULU –Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, a Bishop Museum facility located in Kona, will offer visitors a free hour-and-a-half tour of its collection of native plants on Saturday, November 13, at 10 a.m.

The Garden displays and interprets plants of importance to traditional Hawaiian culture, including traditional crops. A truly local Thanksgiving would feature taro, sweet potatoes, and breadfruit, three of the crops the skilled farmers of Kona grew in the time before foreign contact. Visitors can see these crops and learn how Kona farmers chose their crops and varieties carefully, timed their plantings through a detailed knowledge of weather and the cycles of the seasons, and used water saving planting techniques and mulches.

The Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is a Bishop Museum facility, located in South Kona on the Māmalahoa Highway. Admission is a suggested donation of $4 per person and free for Bishop Museum Association members. For more information, visit www.bishopmuseum.org or call (808) 323-3318.

The Saturday tour is an initiative under the Office of Innovation and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education. Education through Cultural & Historical Organizations, also known as ECHO, provides educational enrichment to Native and non-Native children and lifelong learners. This program is funded by the U.S. Department of Education.