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Anthony's story

Aloha, my name is Anthony Kawika Deluze. I'm a father of 3 boys 16, 8 and 3. I´m from the kaneohe area of ko'olaupoko and we also raised in kailua and waimanalo. Growing up I spent lots of time in the ocean and growing food. Those were and still are my passions. The ocean and mountains were my playground.

I now live in halawa, a once thriving area of cultural heritage and agricultural cultivation. Now a very much urban and industrial area. I am cut off from the mountains, because of all the development and cut off from the ocean and because the once rich and beautiful harbor that surrounds us is one of the most polluted in the world, deemed a federal super fund site. When I moved here, I felt so out of place and cut off from what I knew growing up.

When I was blessed with the area we are now cultivatIng and restoring, it has become my goal, dream, vision and kuleana (responsibility) to create a place not only for my self but for others who might have felt the same disconnect like me.

The goal is to find a way in the future to create an access up mauka (towards the mountains and valleys) of our ahupua'a (a traditional land division from mountain to sea) .

To find peace, to responsibly gather resources, to teach traditional knowledge, to heal...to restore identity.


This loan is special because:

It supports a farmer in Hawaii to grow his organic farm and restore a traditional agricultural space



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About Ho'aipono

Industry: Agriculture
Years in operation: New Business


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