2016 Agricultural Festival @ Maui Tropical Plantation
Our Mission
The mission of Hāli‘imaile Community Garden is to build community around food self-sufficiency.
Through collective effort in our beautiful, harmonious setting, gardeners reconnect with the land, their neighbors and the pleasures of home-grown bounty.
Our Vision
Through educational outreach and provision of garden space, Hāli’imaile Community Garden aims to:
The mission of Hāli‘imaile Community Garden is to build community around food self-sufficiency.
Through collective effort in our beautiful, harmonious setting, gardeners reconnect with the land, their neighbors and the pleasures of home-grown bounty.
Our Vision
Through educational outreach and provision of garden space, Hāli’imaile Community Garden aims to:
- Increase access to fresh and healthy produce,
- Encourage food self-sufficiency and reduce hunger,
- Improve understanding of where food comes from,
- Foster awareness of sustainable and organic environmental practices,
- Connect families through healthy gardening activities,
- Provide garden & environmental educational opportunities, and
- Offer opportunities to socialize and partake in volunteerism.
Our Hawaiian Values
Hāli'imaile Community Garden's values are a set of consistent ethical beliefs that provide integrity in the way we live, garden, and work together.
Our value system determines our priorities, guides our interactions with others, establishes behaviors that are kapu, and is centered around our Hawaiian culture and tradition.
We have selected these values to provide a framework for how gardeners treat one another, facilitate our decisions, and create stability through changes.
As a large group of gardeners of varying ages and ethnicity from many different demographic backgrounds, these common core values are essential to the ongoing success of our garden community.
E hana me ka ha`aha`a
"Let us work with humbleness"
Come Grow With Us!
Hāli’imaile Community Garden opened in 2006 and is still growing.
Plot space is available in the Allotment Garden Program for new gardeners interested in producing their own organic food and joining a community keen on working together to make the garden a beautiful, productive place.
Volunteer positions are available in the Laulima Volunteer Program for individuals and groups interested in sharing their time to help with general garden maintenance and repair, and the Goodwill Garden Program has volunteer positions for individuals and groups interested in share their time to help with weekly weeding, harvesting, and delivering produce in our donation garden to food pantries.
Experience or a "green thumb" not required; just a desire to be more self-sufficient, work collectively with other gardeners and an appreciation for the pleasures of turning hands to the soil.
Hāli’imaile Community Garden is recognized as a tax exempt public charity under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).