Lehia Apana
Lehia Apana and her husband Brad Bayless founded Polipoli Farms in Waiehu, Maui, which produces native and Polynesian plants in a regenerative agroforest. As a Native Hawaiian, Lehia looks to ancestral technologies to grow important cultural foods, then turns those harvests into healthy packaged goods—a model that leads to healthier people and a healthier planet. Polipoli Farms recently launched a project to build an on-farm food processing hub to help reverse the trends of Hawaiʻi’s broken food system, which currently imports nearly 90% of its food. Grant funding will go toward design and permitting costs.