Kona Brewers Festival’s Zero Waste strategy leads to fertile ground for Kona school garden

Bags of discards from the Kona Brewers Festival are loaded up for future composting. (Courtesy photo/Krista Donaldson)

Innovations Public Charter School garden teacher Krista Donaldson holds soil from a composting pen at the school that turns discards from the Kona Brewers Festival into soil for the school’s gardens. (Cameron Miculka/West Hawaii Today)

KAILUA-KONA — Digging her hands into a heap of soil inside a pen at Innovations Public Charter School, garden teacher Krista Donaldson revealed a city of millipedes, roly-polies and other insects bustling about just beneath the surface.