Our mission is to increase local food production for residential and commercial markets throughout the islands. We aim to bolster Hawai’i’s food security by connecting farmers with eaters as collaborators and co-producers in decreasing our reliance on imports. We do this by installing and maintaining vertical farming systems in residential yards where the owners have direct access to locally grown produce and the surplus is sold to those who don’t have yards or lanais to grow in.
While farmers’ markets proliferate, there is little transparency with regard to how the produce is grown and sourced. Many markets have vendors who have been known to or suspected of reselling stolen produce from area farms or produce purchased from distributors.
And even though programs such as GoFarm Hawai’i graduate several dozen new farmers each year, land and water access has made small farming in Hawai’i cost prohibitive and unsustainable for both aspiring and established small farmers.
By partnering with homeowners, we are circumventing these and other challenges to building a strong local food economy. Growing outdoors in screenhouses in residential yards offsets the costs of managing these growing systems that would otherwise be grown in buildings while maintaining a semblance of the traditional growing environment.
Current Projects
We acknowledge that we live and work on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians). The islands of Hawaiʻi, including Oʻahu, have been stewarded by the Kānaka Maoli for generations through the traditional land systems of ahupuaʻa, honoring the interconnectedness of land, water, and community.
We recognize the enduring presence, cultural resilience, and inherent sovereignty of the Hawaiian people. As farmers on this land, we commit to practicing stewardship that aligns with indigenous principles of mālama ʻāina—caring for and respecting the land, water, and all living things.
With gratitude and humility, we honor the generations before us and strive to contribute to a future rooted in justice, sustainability, and aloha ʻāina.