Hanauna Mau is a food sovereignty movement rooted in voyaging. It aims to help our communites thrive on our wa’a and our moku. Hanauna Ola, Hanauna Mau's goal is to restore and perpetuate real and native foods in our diet, aiming to heal and empower Native Hawaiians to feed themselves - physically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually and even economically.  Eating, preparing and cultivating a restored native food system aims to grow healthy families and communities with reduced dis-ease, expanded cultural practices and a strong connection to place.  We believe the voyaging canoe to be a symbol of our indigenous excellence, hope and possibilities of the positive outcomes reached when we pool our strengths together. ​

Hawaiʻi Land Trust is working with the Kohala community and Nā Kālai Waʻa, the current stewards of Koʻa Heiau Holomoana, to ensure this 642-acres of land remains undeveloped, available for public coastal trail access and education, and an active place of Hawaiian cultural practice. Hawaiʻi Land Trust and the current private landowner have signed an agreement for Hawaiʻi Land Trust to purchase the land and protect it perpetually

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The Mahukona Stewardship Project is a partnership between Hawaiʻi Land Trust and Nā Kālai Waʻa to mālama this wahi pana. 

In 2023, NKW launched our latest series of Crew Training called Huluʻena to develop our crew and community into Ocean Stewards. For us this means taking the crew training back to the basics, back to our foundations as voyagers and stewards for our places from the moku (land environments) to the waʻa (canoe environments).

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The name Huluʻena comes from the moʻolelo of Pupuhuluʻena. He established coastal resources through fisheries along West Hawaiʻi while sailing to retrieve food from the land of the gods in Kaʻū. Upon his return he shared the food he acquired on land in alignment with the same fishery resources he previously established.