Agricultural production and technical resources
University of Hawai‘i College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Cooperative Extension Service:
Hawaiian Native Plant Propagation Database
Gallery of Plant Diseases & Pests
Sustainable Organic Agriculture Program
Moloka‘i Native Hawaiian Beginning Farmer Program Newsletter by Glenn I. Teves
Hawai‘i ‘Ulu Cooperative:
Indigenous Polynesian Agriculture in Hawaiʻi
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln and Peter Vitousek, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science, March 2017
Food-Producing Agroforestry Landscapes of the Pacific: Grower’s Guide to Pacific Agroforestry
Craig Elevitch, Garien Behling, Michael Constantinides, and James B. Friday, November 2014
Loan and grant funding
Kahiau Rural Business Development Microloan Program
Kiva Microloan matched by Hawai‘i Food Producers Fund
First Nations Development Institute
Native American Agricultural Fund
Kamehameha Schools Mahi‘ai A Ola Program
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
Hawaii Department of Agriculture Micro-Grants for Food Security
»For additional information, visit the Grant Writing and Capitalization section of our Resource Library
Mahi ‘ai in the media
Ka Wai Ola Magazine: ‘Aina, Land, and Water stories
“Buy local, revive ancient Hawaiian farming” (University of Hawai‘i News, November 4, 2020)
How Landscape Legacies Enhance Hawaii Agriculture (Seth Quintus and Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Honolulu Civil Beat, July 2, 2020)
The Benefits Of Ancestral Hawaiian Foods Go Far Beyond Health (Lia “Bear” Kim, Honolulu Civil Beat, March 12, 2020)
To fight health disparities, Native Hawaiians return to their agriculture, wellness roots (Eleni Gill, USA Today, February 13, 2020)
Indigenous Agriculture (Insights on PBS, July 12, 2019)