JOIN THE MOVEMENT
TO REGENERATE NORTH SHORE AGRICULTURE LANDS AND INCREASE LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION
Our mission is to increase local production and consumption of fruit tree and canoe crops in our North Shore community to reduce our reliance on imports. We advocate for farming in a way that honors the understanding and practices of stewards from the past, while cultivating the health and well-being of this generation and those to come.
We start all of our work with a 2 hour consultation, which includes an in-person site visit and a write-up of recommendations, along with a soil fertility test to identify any pH or nutrient imbalances. Start working with us by selecting the button below.
Regenerative Farm and Soil Health Plans
Planning & Forecasting: We use agroforestry design software to estimate crop yields based on various design scenarios for successions of mid-term crops and long-term crops. We can also explore input cost for phases of installation, maintenance, harvest and break-even points for the farm.
Regenerative Management Plans: A well-organized farm enables you to grow healthy crops in a way that is enjoyable. Farming involves a lot of tasks from prepping new growing areas and restoring soil health and nutrient cycling, to selecting main crops, planning crop rotations and inter-cropping, projecting sales, identifying opportunities to collaborate with other local growers, securing markets and buyers, setting-up irrigation and managing crop nutrients, pest & disease, water use, and drainage.
Orchard & Agroforestry Installations
Design and Installation Services: We install orchards using agroforestry principals. Our orchard designs typically focus on the main tree crops of avocado, mango, ʻulu and citrus. We use native plants and ʻfunctional plantsʻ as windbreaks and ground covers, which are ideal for our North Shore growing conditions and soils, attract pollinators and ‘beneficials’, serve as a living mulch and restore on-farm nutrient, water and ecosystem services. We also install irrigation, fertigation, soil moisture monitoring and water storage systems.
Demo Farm: Our demonstration farm displays agroforestry concepts, serves as a propagation and budwood bank, provides living examples of our hardscape products and soil-building systems, demonstrates the use of our functional plants for creating windbreaks and making fertilizers and is used to share the process for moving fallow land into a thriving, productive system. Our demo farm is open during our workshops and special events.
Nutrient Management & Soil-Building Systems
Crop Nutrient Management, Maintenance, and Monitoring: We build soil health and tilth by boosting the nutrient levels of your crops. Plants that are healthier produce more root exudates to feed soil biology and fuel nutrient cycling, have a more robust root system and rhizosphere, and produce secondary metabolites, triggering natural plant immune and defense systems. If you’re starting a farm, a good first step is a soil test.
Our annual soil and crop nutrient management plans and services help ensure the health and development of your crops and investment in your soil. We often start with a 3 month intensive treatment to address any current pest, disease or nutrient imbalances. Then we begin routine applications of macro and micro nutrients, microbial solutions and proactive natural treatments for pest and disease. We are able to reduce pest & disease pressure and improve the abundance and quality of your yields by improving the properties of your soil to cycle nutrients, achieving higher level crop nutrients, proper soil moisture and routine monitoring for pest & disease pressure.
Carbon & Soil-Building Systems: Soils that have low organic matter, poor air and water space, low biological activity or diversity and that are compacted will create the conditions for plant nutrient deficiencies and high pest and disease pressure. If you are just getting started or have been working on degraded or intensely used land, it is critical that you improve the health and function of your soil if you want to grow healthy crops. We take an active approach to improving your soil and crop health by helping you grow your own fertilizers, plant cover crops and set-up vermicast and other soil-building systems on your land.
Outdoor Spaces & Hardscape
The Farm Art Project
Working with the land creates beauty and provokes inspiration. We love sharing the creativity that people feel from being out on the land and working with their hands in our farm art studio and with elements from the land itself. Our Farm Art Project is an effort to bring local artist out to the farm to create ‘landscape art pieces’ and natural building projects. We demonstrate these projects through our farm design workshops. Check out our Farm Art Project and workshops to begin designing your own edible landscapes, living archways, arbors and outdoor living features.
Outdoor Spaces
Our plant packages, hardscape and natural building products can be used to create outdoor living spaces. We partner with natural builders and suppliers to design and install outdoor kitchens, farm-to-table and other outdoor spaces. Check out our plant design packages and workshops to start using natural elements on your farm to create outdoor living spaces and features. Learn with others in the community, about how to clear and re-purpose the use of invasive trees and waste streams, work with our local clay soils to form earthen plasters and structural components to build hardscape features on your farm such as pathways, accent walls and shade structures.
We work alongside families and community groups stewarding farmland by co-developing plans for regenerating soil; removing invasive vegetation; planting native windbreaks and ground covers; trenching and installing irrigation systems; growing custom orders for grafted fruit trees; and setting-up maintenance and monitoring services to maintain crop health and productivity. We aim to support new farmers and stewards on agriculture lands and prioritize working with those with family or multi-generational ties to āina in our community.
Working with North Shore farms and our partners, we aim to create a regional example for import substitution of avocados and mainland starches, by increasing the consistency of the local supply of avocado, citrus and ulu fruit and cultivating relationships with North Shore markets, buyers and community feeding programs.
How WE WORK
Fruit Production Goals
Help us reach our collective production goals to plant 1,950 ʻulu trees, 2,080 mango trees, 3,120 avocado trees and 3,120 citrus trees on North Shore agriculture land over the next ten years. These goals are based on planting out an estimated tenth of the agriculture land recently sold on the North Shore.
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Regenerating Lands & Starting Farms
We help design and manage projects for removing invasive vegetation, reducing compaction layers, and improving the cycling of nutrients, water and carbon through the use of cover cropping, perennial ground covers, mulch and soil amendments. These practices build soil organic matter and improve soil properties, leading to better soil moisture retention, less flooding and overall healthier and more productive crops.
Our farm-level plans help new farms actualize the vision for their land and communicate action plans with farm mangers and crews.
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Plants for Your Regenerative Project
We keep a large inventory of plants that control erosion, rapidly generate biomass, break-up compaction layers in the soil, provide a source of ‘living mulch’, add deep carbon and stable nitrogen to the system and serve as ‘in-field windbreaks’ to reduce evapotranspiration. Many of our plants are native and selected to be multi-purpose and ascetically appealing.
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Growing nutrient-dense & improving soil health
Our wholistic nutrient management plans and maintenance packages build soil health and boost plant immune responses to pest and disease. We also design systems to empower our clients to generate their own on-farm soil amendments and fertilizers using natural farming and other methods.
Make a donation.
Please consider donating to support our mission to set and track food production goals for our community, regenerate former cane and pineapple land, and contribute towards our ‘Farmscaping’ Apprentice program.