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Hanauna Mau Vision
Hanauna Mau advances Hawaiʻi’s long-term food resilience by rebuilding the systems that once sustained our kūpuna at sea and at home. The program ensures that the ability to grow, preserve, and share food—an essential pillar of voyaging and community life—remains strong for generations to come.
By feeding the waʻa, we feed our communities. By preserving our food, we preserve our future.
“My passion is fueled by my commitment to do my very best in this generation of our voyaging culture to enhance our health, relationships and interdependence to each other, kanaka (man) and ʻāina (land), by re-connecting to our ancestral ways of growing and storing our own food for home and voyage and realizing our food sovereignty."
Keala Kahuanui
Workshops, Trainings, Programs
The Hanauna Mau Program is Nā Kālai Waʻa’s food preservation and canoe provisioning initiative, rooted in a challenge first posed in 2014. During a school farmers’ hui that year, master navigator Chadd Paishon asked a question that continues to guide our work today: “Can we provision a voyage from our own islands today?” This question ignited a movement connecting farmers, educators, cultural practitioners, and youth in rebuilding the knowledge and systems needed to feed Hawaiʻi’s voyaging canoes using food grown and preserved locally. The collective effort culminated in 2019, when Makaliʻi sailed to Mokumanamana provisioned entirely with foods grown, gathered, and prepared in Hawaiʻi. Hanauna Mau now serves as a sustainable, year-round program dedicated to strengthening community food systems, revitalizing ancestral preservation practices, and preparing the next generation to support the health and resilience of both waʻa and lāhui.