HILA is pleased to announce our first hands-on course of 2023, Irrigation Design and Principles! The class will include instruction on hydraulics and design, water pressure and elevation changes, elements of an irrigation plan, point of connection, backflow prevention devices, mainline, quick couplers, valve types, laterals, flow rates, friction loss, precipitation rates, selection of sprinkler …
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Sep 19
HILA President Letter August 2022
Hawaii Island Landscape Association PO Box 1594 Kailua-Kona HI 96745 Phone: (808) 322-4884 August 24rd, 2022 Aloha HILA Green Industry Members! The Hawaii Island Landscape Association (HILA) would like to invite you as part of the green industry ohana to join us again in this new year by renewing your annual membership and involving yourself …
Jun 27
2022 Landscape Continuing Education Hands-On Training Program
On June 18th, 2022, at 8:30 am to 11:30 am, at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Mauna Kea Beach Drive, Kohala Coast, Instructor and HILA Board member Tony Savarese, taught 22 landscape technicians, four who were Certified Arborists, do a complete hands-on maintenance service on a chainsaw provided at the class. Some brought their own …
Jun 08
Equipment Operation and Maintenance
Back in the Saddle Again …. Again HILA re-convenes new Continuing Education classes Last fall, I reported on the attempted deployment of the Hawaii Island Landscape Association’s and University of Hawaii Kona Cooperative Extension’s new continuing education series of face-to-face workshops, despite the disruptions and uncertainty caused by you-know-what. As it turned out, after successfully …
Sep 03
Hands-On Class / Irrigation: Hydraulics and Design with Lynnett Tohara
At the height of the Hawaii County COVID-19 regulations requiring only 10 people meeting at a time, the Hands-On Irrigation class went from 21 landscapers signed up to just 9 students and Lynnett as the teacher making 10 people present for three hours of excellent teaching. Social distancing, masks worn, hand outs waiting on tables, …
