ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) families in Hāmākua on the northeast coast of Hawaiʻi Island founded huiMAU in 2011 to enact their kuleana (responsibility) to care for and protect their kulāiwi (ancestral homelands). Today, through its ʻāina (land) restoration and cultural training programs, youth programs, and land-centered agroforestry projects, huiMAU is regenerating and sustaining the systems that nourish the Hāmākua community physically, intellectually, and spiritually, now and for generations to come. huiMAU currently stewards over 1,000 acres of ʻāina along the coast of Koholālele and in Pa‘auilo, where they restore Indigenous ʻulu (breadfruit) forests and foster safe places of refuge and learning. Their efforts are helping to transform the community’s dependency on external resources into an internally-abundant interdependency that promotes collective ola (health and well-being).