Mahalo ke Akua!

...Aloha kakou!  Update on Hui Poni...This week we had the great privilege in working with the crew down in Kalaheo at the NTBG.  There we had the great privilege to see many our native plants.  We helped out by removing invasive plants, weeds as well as replanting native plants.  We have a new found love for weeds as we have seen the horrible outcome of its unmerciful wrath.  The weeds that some of us look at as beautiful Hawai`i is just that a weed...It is not just smothering our native plants but hindering our knowledge to which plants indeed belong and which once don't.  As a group we agree that it is wonderful that we can come to a place where they are preserving our native plants, but in the same breath, in the same feeling, in our same hearts, we are hurt because this is the only place we can find these plants.  We cannot just go outside our house or even drive down the road and have these plants growing, to see them, smell them, touch and use them.  This gave us a deeper yearning to learn how to grow these plants, how to take care of them and how to remove the ones that are destroying them.  Hui poni would like to thank the crew at NTBG for their kind words, gentle hands and warm hearts.  Mahalo...

Hui Poni...

...EO Kaua`i! Aloha kakou! Hui Poni is the new Kaua`i B HYCC team. We consist of 6 team members, Sanoe, Kiana, Ashlin, Amlan, Patrick and Ka`eo and 1 team leader Tita. Together we try to stay "tangled" like the maile lau li`ili`i in order to get our taks done. Everything we do and will do, we do whole heartedly....Hui Poni is ready to take on each challenge with everything we have.  No matter the task we want to kokua and make a difference in our Hawai`i. Hui Poni had the great opertunity to work with the Waipa foundation on our beautiful north shore on our mokupuni Kaua`i. Day in and day out our blood, sweat and tears went in to the land as we helped to restore an overflowed river, swamp lands and mala. We look foward to returning to Waipa and we thank the entire Waipa ohana for allowing us to be a part in the overall goal of the Waipa ohana in restoring their ahupua`a....