Virtual HĀ Huakaʻi Videos
During these times of forced isolation, it is important for us all to return to the fundamental building blocks of aʻo (teaching and learning) - ʻohana - family values and traditions for life. Through virtual HĀ huakaʻi with ʻāina-based organizations promoting the sustainabilty of Hawaiʻi, learners and teachers alike will be able to to be encouraged and reminded to create similar spaces in and around their own homes and schools. Hawaiʻi community organizations make their living uplifting traditional Hawaiian practices and adapting to the ever changing conditions of the environments around them, including those of the current changing times. In sharing these huakaʻi, organizations will be able to plant seeds for the learning so that it may continue past isolation.
Featured Huakaʻi #8
The mission at Nohoʻana Farm is E ola mau ka mahi’ai kuʻuna – Perpetuating Traditional Hawaiian Agriculture. Nohoʻana Farm is a small family organic farm owned and managed by situated on 2 acres of kuleana land in Waikapū, Maui. The farm traditionally cultivates kalo through an ancient loʻi kalo agricultural system fed by the fresh waters of the Waikapū Stream as well as produces other Hawaiian food crops. Noho'ana Farm has developed a bilingual 'āina-based (place-based) education program designed to engage children to adults in the importance of traditional Hawaiian agriculture and food preparation, ethnobotanical uses of native plants and water resource management - all within a cultural landscape. Join the haumāna of Maui Huliau and the ʻohana of Nohoʻana Farm as they introduce us to their space and get us to reflect on how we might create more opportunities for the work to once again become work of the ʻohana - family work.
If you would like to explore more about their work as well as the education resources and opportunities for collaboration with Nohoʻana Farm, please visit their website at https://www.nohoanafarm.com or feel free to contact them at nohoanafarm@gmail.com.
This video was created in partnership with Maui Huliau Foundation, providing Hawaiʻi-based curriculum. Teachers and students in grades 8-12 can visit mauihuliaufoundation.org/classroom to register for free access to the Google Classrooms featuring huakaʻi across Maui and accompanying curriculum materials.
Bonus Featured Huakaʻi
As a bonus, we invite you to re-visit the ʻāina of our first Virtual HĀ huakaʻi and journey back to the land known as Kūkanono, to Ulupō heiau - the largest agricultural heiau on Oʻahu. Springs flow out of the base of the heiau and into loʻi kalo that have fed people for over 1000 years. Kauluakalana is a non-profit organization that aims to cultivate meaningful relationships between people and place through the sharing of cultural stories, eating food grown on the land, and turning our hands to the ground to work. The name Ulupō Nui is used to describe the land that encompasses Ulupō heiau and the surrounding loʻi kalo. Join Kamuela as he introduces us to the loʻi of this place and the methods they use to mālama Hāloa. How might you consider the conditions in your environments in order to allow for the best possible growth - of people, of places, and of knowledge?
Note: This feature includes both an ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi version and an English version.
If you would like to explore more of the wonderful possibilities for collaboration with Kauluakalana, please feel free to visit their website at www.kauluakalana.org or contact them at kaleo@kauluakalana.org.