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MA’O Organic Farms

By Dennis Oda

May 5, 2019

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Video by Dennis Oda and Andrew Gomes
Ma'o Organic Farms has helped produce leafy greens and college graduated for nearly two decades.
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Flame Porter, a farm apprentice who is pursuing his Bachelor of Applied Science in Sustainable Community Food Systems at UH West Oahu, shows handfuls of their salad mix called “Power House.” The greens have just been washed in a shed at MAO (Mala Ai Opio or Garden Food Youth) Organic Farms. MAO is a nonprofit company that helps train kids to be future farmers, is moving onto 236 acres in Waianae.
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These are many bunches of Hakurei turnips that were grown on MAO Organic Farms. MAO (Mala Ai Opio or Garden Food Youth) Organic Farms is a nonprofit company that helps train kids to be future farmers, is moving onto 236 acres in Waianae.
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Emilin David with the MA'O Youth Leadership training program and pursuing an associates degree at Leeward Community College, holds Swiss chard that she just washed in a shed at MA'O (Mala Ai Opio or Garden Food Youth) Organic Farms.
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Kamuela Enos, director of social enterprise with MA'O; Derrik Parker, farm co-manager at MA'O; and Clair Sullivan, director of development and impact at MA'O, stand in one of their fields that they produce their salad mix at MA'O Organic Farms in Waianae.
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Kaui Sana, farm manager at MA'O Organic Farms, shows some of their greens they produce in Waianae.
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Olivia Quismondo is with the MAO Youth Leadership training program and is pursuing an associates degree at Leeward Community College. She is displaying a tray of Tatsoi (a type of spinach) that she just washed in a shed at MA'O Organic Farms in Waianae.
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Derrik Parker, a farm co-manager at MA'O, walks through one of their fields of Tatsoi (a type of spinach).
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Nanea Kelii, a farm apprentice who is pursuing her Bachelor's of Applied Science in Sustainable Community Food Systems at UH West Oahu, weeds a field of chard at MAO Organic Farms in Waianae.
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