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Mauricio Hoffman is an Agronomist and Agroforester and beneficial flora and fauna. All of this while
from central Brazil who has been traveling to and being able to employ a large number of the local
teaching some of these principles and methods all population harvesting and processing cacao from
over Brazil, and also here to Maui and to Haiku Aina his overly abundant forest system, replenishing the
Permaculture Initiative (HAPI) for almost 4 years now. water table, and positively affecting the local weather.
Learning from his theory and methodology, we The methods he practices are simple, and while the
have worked together in grasslands, young weedy understanding he has and teaches is quite technically
forests, thick eucalyptus groves, old coffee orchards, advanced, it is very attainable. If we can learn to apply
and dense guava forests. We have transformed some of these simple principles of non-competition,
these areas from simple and stagnant, with very little strategic utilization of resources, and working with
bio-diversity, to incredibly complex, dense and full the very powerful force of nature, the possibility of
of food, medicine, valuable wood, habitat for many Regenerating our backyards, our communities, and
different creatures, and other intangible and invaluable our Islands is a very present reality.
resources such as bio-mass, humus, and living seed
Stay tuned, because we want to have interested
banks for the future.
people over here to learn, explore and work together
Recently, I had the privilege of traveling to the piece of in regenerating a little piece of Maui together, in the
land in Brazil, where Ernst has transformed over 1000 hopes that a small seed of cooperation and learning
acres of degraded pasture land into a diverse native together can help be a part of this bigger piece we all
and abundant cacao forest complete with hundreds want to see restored in a beautiful and abundant way.
of other types of fruit, hardwood, and many beautiful

COMING SOON

At the end of March or beginning of April, they will be presenting a program called
“Course for Professionals and Advanced Agriculturalists.” Contact them for the exact date.
check out www.agendagotsch.com for some inspirational videos.
check out www.hapimaui.com and see a little bit of what they have been up to.

Adam Lottig is a professional trail builder with his own company called Flow Farm Pacific. he is Forest resource Manager
at hApi and is combining his work of recreational land use and Agriculture. he’s currently developing a plan to combine
Agriculture and public Land access to create a new way to address Community land use and local agriculture.

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