About Us.

We’re a family-run business who has been living and growing food for the North Shore community on Oahu for the past 15 years. We’ve learned a lot from our friends operating local farms, running edible landscaping businesses and nurseries, creating value-added products, starting up food hubs, creating direct-to-consumer services, running farmers markets, farm-to-table pop-ups, restaurants, gardens in school programs, leading community compost and stewardship programs, and health and wellness practices. We even have friends who have started the first regenerative marketplace in Hawaii.

We started the Hawai’i Regenerative Food Co-op to bring all of our friends together around a movement to grow and support the use of regenerative farming practices. The co-op also aims to help grow each-others businesses and support a circular economy.

However, our personal passion towards healthy living led us to discover why using regenerative and organic practices is not enough to support optimized health. We’ve learned that many of the nutrients needed to preform key biological functions, to stabilize our moods and stress responses, and to provide energy and mental clarity are not in our soil and not in the foods we are consuming. If these minerals do not exist on the land that grows our food, than building soil and using onsite inputs will create a greater lack of these essential minerals until they are added to the system. Carbon and nitrogen also have to be added in the right ratios to support nutrient cycling and soil moisture and compaction must be addressed.

Many people we work with start with fallow land that has not been in production or was last farmed in a moncrop system, such as cane or pineapple. The land is often compacted, exposed to prevailing and variable winds, and Which practices to use, where to source inputs, the best order of operation, We’ve also been actively leading soil health workshops, grafting workshops, and learning about ways to grow nutrient-dense food. A lot of the practices

This led us to develop growing standards for our own farm that challenge us to grow food in a way that both regenerate that we set to challenge ourselves to produce food on our own farm that uses both regenerative

After studying and applying the principles and practices of growing nutrient-dense food on our own farm, we’ve develop growing standards that we’re holding ourselves too. It has taken us time to figure out how to apply these in our own operation and we’re excited to help others do this on their farms and backyards.