Malama Kauai

Founded in 2006, Malama Kauai is a community-based organization that focuses on increasing local food production and access for Kauaʻi through a lens of resilience and sustainability, leveraging workforce and economic development efforts, partnerships and innovative programs to grow community capacity. During the pandemic, Malama Kauai supported $1.1 million in local food purchases from over 126 Kauaʻi farmers and over 600 consumers.

Malama Kauai has begun development of the Moloaa AINA Center, a new food hub in partnership with the Moloaa Irrigation Cooperative, which comprises 70 small farms spanning more than 600 acres in rural Moloaʻa. The Center will expand capacity of all of Malama Kauai’s local food programs while also providing farmers access to processing and packing facilities, new sales channels, and technical assistance. As of August 2022, Malama Kauai has completed site preparation, excavation, finish grading, wastewater system installation, underground utilities installation, and concrete foundation and floors. Phase two of the project has begun, which includes construction of a two-story post-harvest processing facility and technical assistance hub. Cooke Foundation funding was used to purchase doors and windows for the facility.

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