Volunteer Opportunities

Mahalo for your interest and for taking the time to volunteer with us. Your help is always appreciated! Please see the description for each workday below. If you have any other questions, email [email protected]. Mahalo!

Loi Workdays – Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays

Our loi workdays occur every Monday, Tuesday and Friday and run from 9:00 am -12:30pm. Tasks includes weeding, planting and harvesting. Please use the SignUp Genius link to sign up for a workday.

Please bring the following items with you on the workday:

Clothes you don’t mind getting dirty
Sun protection
Optional: Hat, Towel, Change of Clothes
Water

Parking

We are located at 46-406 Kamehameha Highway Kaneohe HI 96744. Please enter through the main gate and stay to your left and follow the road. You will see the loi on your right-hand side and a covered structure with tools and a seating area on your left. Please park after the covered structure on your left-hand side. 

Wetland Restoration Workday – Tuesdays

Wetland restoration workdays occur every Tuesday from 8:30 am – 12 pm. These workdays involve removal of invasive plants, out-planting native plant species, and clearing waterways. Please use the SignUp Genius link to sign up for a workday. 

Please bring the following items with you on the workday:

  • Long pants/leggings that you don’t mind getting dirty
  • Sun protection
  • Covered Shoes or Tabis (mandatory to participate)
  • Optional: Hat, Towel, Change of Clothes
  • Water

Parking

We are located at 46-406 Kamehameha Highway Kaneohe HI 96744 but please enter through the Kealohi gate. As you are driving towards Kahaluu on Kamehameha Hwy, drive over the Heeia bridge, you’ll see the Heeia fishpond on your right and the mountains on your left. Right after the bridge, you’ll see a gate on your left-hand side right before the bend turn left there for parking.

Saturday Community Workdays

Saturday community workdays occur in the loʻi on the first Saturday of each month from 8:30am – 12pm. Tasks includes weeding and maintenance of loi and auwai. Please use the SignUp Genius link to sign up for a workday.

Please bring the following items with you on the workday:

Clothes you don’t mind getting dirty
Sun protection
Optional: Hat, Towel, Change of Clothes
Water

Loʻi Workdays Waiver

Wetland Restoration Workday Waiver

Saturday Community Workdays Waiver

Puulani is Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi’s pilot agroforestry restoration site. The restoration efforts, conceived in a partnership between Kakoo Oiwi and the University of Hawaii, are ongoing. The dynamic system home to a range of native, indigenous, and introduced plants that are important to Hawaii culturally, spiritually, and medicinally.

The forest is open to the community. Join us for monthly workdays. The work usually consists of some combination of weed mitigation, pruning, watering, and planting. We recommend long pants, long sleeves, sun protection, insect repellent, and water.

For inquiries about coordinating small group workdays or visiting the Puulani contact Maile Wong.

Shop from our sustainably farmed fresh produce

“Mahalo nui for such an amazing experience. Being Native Hawaiian, it’s so great to see our traditional practices being conserved, while helping feed our people healthy organic food and be proper stewards of our land and birthright. Kupanaha!!!”