Partners & Experiences
Native Seed & Plant Propagation Events!
Restore Maui is excited to offer native plant propagation experiences and education for private groups of different sizes. We have immense passion for the native plants of Hawaii and are excited to be able to include your group in growing them!
Please contact us for more details.
Maui Nui Botanical Gardens
Our Maui Nui Botanical Garden experience includes:
1.5hrs of a guided ethnobotanical tour of the grounds focused on plants endemic to Hawaii as well as Polynesian-introduced plants.
1.5hrs of a hands on activity using the plants you’ve just learned about. These activities vary depending on practitioner & plant availability.
Plenty of time & space to ask questions.
More about the Maui Nui Botanical Garden
The mission of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens is to foster appreciation and understanding of Maui Nui’s plants and their role in Hawaiian cultural expression by providing a gathering place for discovery, education, and conservation.
The gardens were established in 1976 by Rene Sylva within a coastal dune system, and are primarily focused on conserving native Hawaiian plants of the dry forest and coastal areas of Maui Nui (Maui, Molokaʻi, Lanaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe). The gardens also contain a large collection of Polynesian-introduced plants. More on the founder of MNBG
By collecting, cultivating, and distributing native and Polynesian-introduced plants MNBG provides people with a gathering place to see and understand the important relationship these plants have to our economic, social, and cultural livelihoods.
As MNBG reaches out to groups outside of the Gardens, we also draw people in through interpretation of our living collection (native and Polynesian-introduced plantings in the Gardens) and the hiring of local cultural practitioners to demonstrate and teach their crafts to visitors of the Gardens.
To visit or volunteer at MNBG outside of Restore Maui LLC operations, please visit their website here.
Kipuka Olowalu
Our Kipuka Olowalu experience includes:
1.5hrs of a guided tour of the native reforest project and loʻi kalo and mala.
1.5hrs of a hands on activity which may include working in the loʻi, helping to manage the native forest restoration project, or other help the staff at Kipuka Olowalu is in need of that day.
An opportunity to see the Olowalu Petroglyphs.
Time to dip into the Olowalu river.
More about the Kipuka Olowalu site:
Kipuka Olowalu is an organization that seeks to preserve the Native Hawaiian cultural site and Olowalu valley, located on the island of Maui.
This reserve was originally formed in 1999 as a community-based managed area to dedicate a space for Hawaiian culture amidst the development of land in the area.
The Olowalu Cultural Reserve is a 74-acre are within Olowalu valley that they seek to transform into a space for Native Hawaiian cultural education and resource development, in an effort to pass down their knowledge and values to the generations to come.
To visit or volunteer at Kipuka outside of Restore Maui LLC, please visit their website here.
Please contact us at info@restoremauiecotours.com for more information; we would love to accommodate your group!