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Our ancestors created land divisions called ahupua\u2018a to adeptly manage island resources and provide continual sustenance to their island communities. Ahupua\u2018a were often, but not always, defined by the boundaries of the watershed \u2014 from the mountain peak into the sea. This way of managing resources fostered a strong sense of inter-dependence with the natural world. Interwoven economic, social and cultural systems flourished through sustainable uses of land, water and resources.<\/p>\n
Extensive archaeological remnants of lo\u02bbi and hale complexes in the upper valley, as well as two major \u02bbauwai systems in the lower valley, indicate that Waip\u0101 historically supported a significant population. According to historic land records, crops growing in Waip\u0101 at the time of the M\u0101hele (1848) included oranges, coffee, kalo (taro) and \u02bbuala (sweet potato). Nineteen separate land claims were granted in Waip\u0101 in the M\u0101hele, showing that very few families remained by the mid 1840\u02bbs.<\/p>\n
Through the oral histories of k\u016bpuna, it was learned that Waip\u0101 was deforested by the sandalwood trade in the late 1700\u02bbs and early 1800\u02bbs. Between the 1860\u02bbs and 1940\u02bbs, Chinese and Japanese immigrant farmers extensively cultivated rice in the valley. Rice was farmed from \u201cwall to wall\u201d and all the way out to where K\u016bhio Highway is currently. Remnant terracing and ditching, a flume, at least two rice mills, water wheels and threshing floors are reminders of how extensive rice farming in Waip\u0101 once was.<\/p>\n
The ahupua\u2019a of Waip\u0101 is one of few ahupua\u2018a in Hawai\u2018i that remain intact under a single landowner. Waip\u0101 came to be in the trust of Kamehameha Schools and Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop through Princess Ruth Keanolani Kan\u0101hoahoa Ke\u02bbelik\u014dlani (her aunt). With forty years of pasture leases by Kamehameha Schools to the Robinson Family ending in 1980, \u02bbohana from Kaua\u02bbi\u2019s north shore communities learned of resort and golf course development plans for Waip\u0101. In 1982, led by Aunty LaFrance Kapaka Arboleda, the community organized to oppose the development and propose a different use for Waip\u0101: a living learning center for community to serve as a land base for the continued practice and perpetuation of Hawaiian culture. Many members of north shore Hawaiian families joined Aunty LaFrance and created the Hawaiian Farmers of Hanalei, Inc., Waip\u0101 Foundation\u02bbs predecessor organization. In 1986, the developer defaulted and the Hawaiian Farmers of Hanalei, Inc. obtained the lease for Waip\u0101 from Kamehameha Schools. The nonprofit Waip\u0101 Foundation was created in 1994 and took over the master lease for Waip\u0101 and nearly all activities in 2005.<\/p>\n
In the early 2000\u02bbs, after years of struggle, Waip\u0101\u00a0was able to develop a strong partnership with Kamehameha Schools as well as other partners and funders. The years since have seen constant planning, exponential growth, expanded programming and realization of the vision of its founders. For almost 40 years, Waip\u0101 has been a living learning center and its work remains multi-faceted with efforts balanced between stewardship, cultural resiliency and economic development rooted in agriculture.<\/p>\n
In a geographic community where Hawaiians and longtime local families have\u2013and continue to\u2013lose land, access to resources and the value of their lifestyle and knowledge Waip\u0101 has created a modern Hawaiian ahupua\u02bba. Providing alternatives to resort and visitor industry development,\u00a0Waip\u0101\u00a0continues to be a place where our community comes to live, learn, practice and teach culture, skills, and perpetuate the rural, local lifestyle and values.<\/p>\n
With deep gratitude, this page is dedicated to Waip\u0101\u02bbs founders (listed below), those who held the vision for so long, through very trying times, and most of whom have passed on. Gladys Brandt, Patrick Kelekoma Sr., Eugene Lum, Atwood Makanani, and Francis X. Warther were also instrumental in the effort to save Waip\u0101 from development and create the Hawaiian Farmers of Hanalei, Inc.<\/p>\n
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