Go Native!
The Go Native project was founded by Grow Good Hawaii Executive Director Paul Arinaga. It aims to mobilize Hawaii’s residents, businesses, schools, and other institutions to grow more native Hawaiian and Polynesian-introduced plants. Our long-term goal is to restore nature from mauka to makai by creating a series of kīpuka within inhabited areas. This “Urban…
Trees for People: Growing an Urban Community Food and Native Forest Project
The Trees for People: Growing an Urban Community Food & Native Forest project seeks to increase the food security of underserved communities in Wai‘anae and Waimānalo. It accomplishes this by teaching community members how to produce a portion of their own food using agroforestry techniques. The project is funded by a $5 million, 5-year grant…
Mea‘ai Trading Platform
The Mea‘ai Trading Platform is a key component of the Trees for People Project. The productivity of the ahupua‘a of pre-western contact Hawaii was based not only on the careful stewardship of productive resources, but also on relationships between members of the community within and between ahupua‘a (ahupua‘a were part of larger land divisions called…