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Uluniu Project: UH West Oʻahu & Kaulunani Community Coconut Program
February 22 @ 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
The event below is from a partner in the Year of Our Community Forests:
NiU NOW! is a community cultural agroforestry movement emerging to affirm the importance of niu, coconut and uluniu, coconut groves. At the center of our movement is the re-establishment of a loving relationship with niu and the ancient knowledge practices of Hawai‘i’s coconut heritage as a “tree of life,” a complete food system.
Led by Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer and Indrajit Gunasekara, NiU NOW! has three priorities to re-establish the coconut back into ka pae ʻāina o Hawaiʻi, into the Hawaiian islands:
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Hawaiian cultural revitalization
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Ecological conservation
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Food security/healing
We begin first with land-based practices that honor our coconut heritage. This movement was founded in our backyards and in the hearts and cultural practices of community. Our growth has continued more five years and has amplified with community support to reinvision and reconstruct a living economy. NiU NOW! is not large-scale uluniu for economic gain, but rather groves for a healthy society and the well-being of people.
