Mālama ʻĀina

To mālama or care for a place is to take up a kūleana, a right and responsibility to a place.

At Waikāne, our organization is working on caring for a culturaly and ecologically critcal wetland and watershed ecology that afffects our aquifer recharge, our wetland and nearshore marine area ecology, but also our communities’ disaster and climate change resilency, including flood mitigation and food security.

Increase agro-ecologically managed acres: more food grown and increased native habitat.

OUR GOAL WITH MĀLAMA ‘ĀINA

We started at 3 acres, our goals is to cultivate 10 acres in 2024.

HOW ITʻS GOING…

We continue to maintain 3 acres.

Kaiāulu

To mālama or care for a place is to take up a kūleana, a right and responsibility to a place.

At Waikāne, our organization is working to ensure that the people’s connection to ‘āina remains. This means providing cultural access to the Pu’uhonua ‘o Waikāne, perpetuating the indigenous identity and intelligence on which the mutual well-being and health of community and our environment rely. Our vision is not that land needs to be conserved without people, but rather that the bio-cultural restoration of people on land is what rehabilitation of our communities, land, and earth requires.