At HGFA, we are rebuilding thriving community food systems, with community. We invite you to follow along.

The journey of ʻAha ʻAi Pono was inspired by both Native Hawaiian and Native American gatherings. As we immersed ourselves in spaces where indigeneity was the lens for understanding food and health systems, we felt called to create that space here in Hawaiʻi, rooted in our own practices.

Each ʻAha built upon the last—beginning with the birth of the ʻAha ʻAi Pono in Pālehua, exploring collaboration in Waiʻanae, moving into application and action in Waimānalo, and embracing education and perpetuation at Hoʻoulu ʻĀina in Kalihi Valley.