Aloha Aina is a tropical permaculture farm and learning center in Maui, Hawai`i.
Our mission is to create a more sustainable future through education, entrepreneurship
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Permaculture is a synthesis of ecology and geography, observation and design. It encompasses all aspects of human environments and culture, urban and rural, and their local and global impact. It involves
TEACHERS & Staff

Jenny Pell
Jenny Pell is a full-time permaculture designer, consultant and educator based on Maui, with ongoing work overseas. She has an extensive portfolio of projects large and small that span the Pacific NW, Central America, and the Hawai`ian Islands. She was the lead designer for the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle, co-author of the Future of Maui Regenerative Agriculture Report, and has been teaching permaculture for 15 years.
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Evan Ryan
Evan Ryan is an agricultural landscape consultant, designer, farmer, project manager, author, and educator. His focus
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Spencer Oneal
Spencer Oneal is a northwest
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Rosa Maicas
Rosa
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NATE Summers
Nate Summers, M.Ac., has been a survival skills instructor for over 20 years with a background in anthropology, Asian studies, and natural medicine. He taught and directed at the Wilderness Awareness School for over 15 years where he started both the Anake Outdoor School and the Anake Leadership Program. Nate’s passions include ethnobotany, natural mentoring, hunter-gatherer childhoods, natural movement, herbal medicine, internal martial arts, mentoring, and leadership.
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KAREN Fletcher
Karen Joy Fletcher, MPH, writer, qigong teacher, and Earthgym sensei loves sharing her passions of qigong, earth-based play and nature connection with people around the world. She is a personal student of ZY Qigong Grandmaster Xu Mingtang, has trained and traveled with him at Shaolin Monastery in China and worldwide. She also speaks Mandarin Chinese, is a student of Master Chinese Medicine doctor, Dr. Zhao Fuxue, and serves as his interpreter when in the U.S.
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Permaculture is a conscious process involving the placement and planning of elements, things and processes in relationship to each other. As such, it is a way of thinking, and it is our thought patterns that determine our actions, so permaculture becomes a way of living.
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Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
The HAPI
Integrating principles and wisdom of native Hawaiian spiritual culture, we are aspiring to create a model of soil renewal, reforestation, and human interaction with nature in a paradigm of respect, harmony, and adherence to the natural law.
In the Hawaiian Language, which is filled with mysteries and hidden meanings, “HA” represents the Breath of Life – The Spirit, “I” represents The Self, and “KU” means “rising upright” it is the name also given to the Rising Sun. So Hai’ku, the name of the place where our project is located can be said to represent The True Self Standing Upright in Spirit.
Pono Grown
Pono
We provide a farm center that offers our community the opportunity to come and connect with a landscape that is a model for living in peace by providing for the basic needs of food, water, shelter, and energy in a regenerative way. Through demonstration, experiential and classroom education, individuals have the ability to discover their conscious selves in connection with the greater world we are all a part of.
Hale Akua
At Hale Akua our certified organic farm and eco-retreat center. Farm interns study organic gardening and farming every morning between Monday and Friday. They also learn how to market and sell the farm products we grow. They also are offered free instruction in Compassionate Communication, which is profoundly helpful in effective farm management and life management in general.
We consider physical and psychological well-being an essential aspect of successful farming. In addition these students also get exposed to farm product marketing by selling our produce at the Hale Akua booth at the local farmer’s market and by joining our farm managers in marketing to restaurants.
Ola Honua
Ola Honua can mean “life giving earth” and is a place, a project and a community whose purpose is to cultivate a deep respect and commitment to the care and regeneration of the land. Grown from the seed of an individual and sustained by the commitment of an entire community, Ola Honua started as a restoration effort and has evolved into a broader, more sustainable project.
We are a sustainable forestry project that is planting, harvesting and selling bamboo and high-quality hardwoods. We respect long-held traditions and incorporate new approaches into a local business compatible with Kipahulu’s rural lifestyle. We work in partnership with the community to help sustain their needs and aspirations. All of our actions are done with respect for the people and lifestyle of the community.
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