Aloha Aina Health Center is a nonprofit native Hawaiian based organization located on two small farms inthe ahupua'a of Kaneohe and Kailua. The mission of the center is to build a healthy community through holistic nutrition and healthy lifestyle programs. By fostering community participation in traditional hawaiian sustainable farming and preparing foods one can all learn about the health of a Hawaiian diet in a place where people can gather to share the Hawaiian healing arts.

  
 
   

The vision is to re-establish "ahupua’’a as the means of identifying and connecting the community to the ‘‘aina" or land. In an area at the base of the Ko'olau mountain range in Maunawili Valley Mark and Kamakanoe Paikuli-Stride engage in native kalo or taro farming practices using tradtional methods. This model of small farm food production creates a learning centers for the community and expands a constituency to protect culturally and agriculturally important lands.
 
  Malama Lo'i Kalo Three 4th grade classrooms from Le Jardin Academy spent a day at the Aloha Aina Health Center to learn and experience traditional methods of kalo farming and food prepartion. Students learned about kalo cultivation from planting to maintenance and harvest. All of the students pitched in to help clear the kalo patches of weeds. They also learned how to cook the tubers and then pound them into poi!