Steve is founder and owner of Honaunau Farm. He has educated hundreds of students from all over the world at the farm on regenerative agriculture and a wide variety of sustainability issues. Steve has also been a leader in the sustainability movement for almost 20 years and believes strongly in the power of models as a tool to demonstrate the simplicity and necessity of regenerative living. He has dedicated his adult life to building such models.
Steve has been a sustainability consultant for 17 years including several years in W. Africa. He has been living and working in Hawaii for the past 11 years and has worked on a diversity of projects including renewable energy, permaculture, green building, animal husbandry and soil health.
His agriculture experience includes almost 20 years of experience working with medical cannabis. The last 7 of those years he has focused on medicinal hemp with high phytocannabinoid content and its potent and diverse health benefits. He is the founder and CEO of Mana Artisan Botanics which incorporates Honaunau Farm grown turmeric, Big Island Bees Honey and sustainably grown US hemp. Steve, as part of his other company Green Hawaii Genetics, has been contracted to grow Hawaii acclimated hemp seed varieties for the state of Hawaii's Pilot Hemp Program. He has been working for many years to support sustainable agriculture and hemp legislation in the state of Hawaii. It is his hope to help make a sustainable organic source of hemp locally available.
Steve was also the President of the local chapter of Hawaii Farmers Union United, which is part of the oldest agriculture organization in the country. In this position he spent time in Washington D.C. and the Hawaii State Legislature lobbying for a stronger voice in regenerative agriculture. He also served as the Chair of the Democratic Party for much of West Hawaii. Steve graduated from Humboldt State University with a B.S in Natural Resources and City Planning with an emphasis in Appropriate Technology. Steve’s priorities are to support, design and help implement thriving social, environmental, cultural and economic models.
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Steve has been a sustainability consultant for 17 years including several years in W. Africa. He has been living and working in Hawaii for the past 11 years and has worked on a diversity of projects including renewable energy, permaculture, green building, animal husbandry and soil health.
His agriculture experience includes almost 20 years of experience working with medical cannabis. The last 7 of those years he has focused on medicinal hemp with high phytocannabinoid content and its potent and diverse health benefits. He is the founder and CEO of Mana Artisan Botanics which incorporates Honaunau Farm grown turmeric, Big Island Bees Honey and sustainably grown US hemp. Steve, as part of his other company Green Hawaii Genetics, has been contracted to grow Hawaii acclimated hemp seed varieties for the state of Hawaii's Pilot Hemp Program. He has been working for many years to support sustainable agriculture and hemp legislation in the state of Hawaii. It is his hope to help make a sustainable organic source of hemp locally available.
Steve was also the President of the local chapter of Hawaii Farmers Union United, which is part of the oldest agriculture organization in the country. In this position he spent time in Washington D.C. and the Hawaii State Legislature lobbying for a stronger voice in regenerative agriculture. He also served as the Chair of the Democratic Party for much of West Hawaii. Steve graduated from Humboldt State University with a B.S in Natural Resources and City Planning with an emphasis in Appropriate Technology. Steve’s priorities are to support, design and help implement thriving social, environmental, cultural and economic models.
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