Building Abundance + Community

We’ve collaborated with Rotary Clubs of Maui and some really wonderful people in the Maui community like Uncle George Kahumoku and Uncle Kimo Keo, from the Canoe Club, who donated 1000s of trees and plants.

We’ve done a gifting tree project called the Laha’auhawe, which we really want to create a whole new culture around planting trees. If we could get everybody at the holiday times, whatever your holidays are, to give trees and bushes, berry bushes as gifts and help people plant them, you know, imagine how many trees will be planted, if every time a baby was born, or somebody died, you planted a tree, right? Then we’d be well on our way. Why give people things they don’t need or want when you can do something really meaningful like that. That is what builds community and creates abundance.

Recently we collaborated with a local Maui non-profit called Food Security Hawaii and launched Ohana Gardens. This program adapted a permaculture strategy called tree guilds.

We framed the program to be taught with a permaculture workshop at your home. We brought the trees, all the plants, and all the know-how. All you had to bring was at least five people to attend the workshop and a few other things like cardboard and wood chips.