Our FARMILY
Our farmily includes residents, volunteers, CSA members, students and teachers who gather to share this beautiful life. We love our little community and are always looking for more great teammates. If you are interested in hosting a class, event or joining our farm, we recommend you start by joining one of our volunteer days. If you are interested in a more intensive experience, we encourage you to look into our internship program.
Aloha kakou, my name is Meleana Judd-Cox. I love this magical place, cherish moments riding waves and am guided by a mission to grow food food and a place for peace health and wellness…and invite YOU to join us!
Our health is dependent on planetary health. I have never wanted to over hype our garden that is barely a farm. However I am proud our SMALL CSA program provides an alternative to our current mainstream toxic food system that poisons our soil, waters, workers and future generations. In addition to the CSA, my hope is to facilitate experiences of connection with nature that inspire values of malama aina & malama pono (caring for land & what is right/good), and have fun doing it.
Heres some of the story…my parents Carol & Cully started Inter-Island Solar Supply in 1973, my father was guided by a mission to help Hawaii reduce its dependency on fossil fuels and Waihuena Farm is my way to continue that legacy. Leaving home for Pitzer college my relationship with food changed dramatically, for the first time I experienced food insecurity, studied organic agriculture and experienced a community garden. I travelled to Australia in hopes that a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) would give me a foundation to move forward in a world I felt increasingly critical of and uncomfortable about, it helped and I began dreaming of a sustainable homestead on the North Shore. I moved home to start work in the solar business, worked two sessions at Hawaiiʻs State Capitol learning the ropes of policy, took some agriculture-based courses at UH Manoa, worked briefly in a few nurseries, visited many farms, spent a year working for Hawaii SEED doing public outreach advocating the importance of local agriculture and dangers of the genetically engineered seed industry we host, attended local ag meetings, workshops and conferences. In 2007 I found my surf life partner and in 2008 we bought the first 3 acres of the farm. I was stoked, overwhelmed, and still am.
I write this note December of 2021, I hope my next edit will be made in a different climate but current time is pretty weird. Approaching my 40th year, 13th year of manifesting this mission, 9th year as a wife and 7th year as a mother I am not quite the human I want to be nor is the farm nearly as much of the homestead I dream of, however the mission continues to provide guidance.
Alex Cox loves eating healthy food, getting pitted across the street and working with wood to make picture frames.
Our daughter Kenui enjoys garden tea parties, son Stuardt enjoys our swings, both enjoy getting whomped in the shorebreak.
My mom Carol is our best weeder and Cully our solar pioneer…Mahalo for making this dream a reality.
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Keale Comstock, Artist in Residence @crestofthewavepaintings
Steven Olah, student & GoFarm graduate
Mason Hernandez, chef
Sebastian Buenrostro, tree farmer and trimmer
Bodhi Garcia, Owner Mow & Grow property maintenance, @surfskatesushi catering
Carey Bonn, Owner Diamond Island Farm @farmercareyhi GoFarm graduate
Kalani Chapman, surfboards & school northshorebeachboyz.com
Trevor Giles, surfboards @gilessurfboards
@littlekingfruitandflower
Eliza Johnson, also teaches yoga with Paumalu Yoga
Caleb Monroe, works with GoFarm
TEAM RIDERS
(coming soon)
PREVIOUS TEAMMATES
Mahalo any of you who have ever volunteered in the garden or shopped the farmstead, you are all part of the team! And thank you to those who made significant contributions-
Jerome Prentice, Hari DeCastro, Anton Adcock, Jillian Thorpe, Michael Hobbs, Angela Breene, Karuna Richard, Menko Mckee, Peter Mclean, Shawn Nicholson, Michael Bradham, Anders Berling, Paula Reyes, Ellen Lana, Alyssa Adler, Scott Haines, Billy Pope, Emily Crawford, Lauren Oliver, Stacey Gilmore, Jenifer Rudski, Richard Martin.
I would like to highlight…
Tia Silvasy- Continued agricultural work at University of Florida
India Clark- Continued agricultural work with Oahu RC&D
Lydi Bernal- Director Hawaii Farm to School Hui
