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...