As the rains continue, we urgently call for support from our greater community to help the Waialua and Haleiwa farmers who have lost it all! This GoFundMe campaign is hosted by fellow Waialua farmers working together to help our neighboring farmers with the greatest need! Which are the farming families depending solely on selling their produce, eggs and meats to our Waialua Farmers Market, CSA or other local markets and who experienced the most extreme flooding, losing their homes, transportation, crops, farm infrastructure and the soil and fertility they worked so hard to build. Most were farming communities located in the Mahiko Farms/Old Mill Camp, Otake Camp and along Kaika Bay lowlands and many of the families had ties working with the plantation.

They grow okra, jicama, eggplant, papaya, banana, peppers, long beans and lima beans, long squash, tomatoes, cucumber, pumpkin, greens and eggs. Most of the farmers planned to plant these crops once and harvest and sell them for the next four months to a year. These farmers have no other source of income over these next few months.

To recover, they will need work days to help rebuild their homes and farms. They will need to rebuild their wash/pack stations (refrigeration, generators, scales), rebuild their fields (machine work, fertilizers and soil amendments, weed cloth, irrigation, stakes & netting), and repair access roads, fencing. They will need transportation to get to their farms and markets. The land will likely take weeks to dry out and most of the starters for the crops they grow will likely take 3 months to grow out.

We will be hosting workdays, starting with dump runs to help clean out their household and farm items that arenʻt salvageable. All proceeds will go directly to the farming families to cover expenses for the next three to four months and towards items needed for recovery that are not received through direct donations.