Hawaii
Edible
Landscaping
Replanting paradise
We create beautiful and bountiful
edible landscapes, farms, & forests
SERVICES
Upcoming class
Cultivating the Rain
with Ecological Agriculture
Free Online Class
Sat, June 14, 2025
9-11 AM (Hawaii Standard Time)
2-4 PM (Central Time)
7-9 PM UTC
Registration required: forms.gle/pD7xJZTGR9YXxXgd9
Learn how to create drought-resistant farms, forests, and edible landscapes that conserve and collect water while healing the land. Free rare seed prizes will be given away to Hawaii residents.
The instructors will be David Sansone, owner of Hawaii Edible Landscaping, LLC on Hawaii Island and Adam Russell, co-owner of Symbiosis, Austin, Texas’ largest permaculture and ecological agriculture contractor.
The class will share methods that work with nature to conserve & collect water, increase the potential for rainfall, revitalize the soil, increase production, and reduce labor & inputs through ecological processes.
Participants will learn strategies and practices they can apply on any scale in backyard gardens, farms, ranches, and forests. Each instructor will show real-world examples of their work.
The event is sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture, UH-Hilo Pacific Aquaculture & Coastal Resources Center, the Marine & Environmental Research Institute of Pohnpei, Hawaii Edible Landscaping, Revitalizing Hawaii, and Symbiosis.
Registration required: forms.gle/pD7xJZTGR9YXxXgd9
About the instructors:
David Sansone is replanting paradise with ecological agriculture, forestry, and edible landscapes on Hawaii Island. He has transformed numerous degraded farm lands, abandoned roads, and industrial sites into thriving low-maintenance edible botanical gardens, forest farms, and diverse forests.
Adam Russell, is experienced in a wide range of restorative agriculture systems & practices with a special focus on revitalizing dryland strategies. Adam’s current projects include broad-scale soil and atmospheric regeneration and the spread of available solutions through his work with Symbiosis.
Let Nature Do the Work!
Client: Kanaka Kava
Services
Hawaii Edible Landscaping offers a wide range of services based on the needs of our clients and the land.
Whether you are a landowner, gardener, farmer, or forester; we can help you let nature do the work with permaculture and agroforestry design, ecological agriculture/forestry, natural farming, and more.
Consultation
Just one visit from us can help you avoid a lifetime of back-breaking effort, expense, and frustration. If you don't want to be on a regime of mowing and weed whacking every two weeks for years to come, we can provide natural solutions.
We offer: in-depth site and project assessment to identify site variables, challenges, and existing vegetation and provide recommendations for site-adapted plants, practices, and more to help you reduce labor and expenses while revitalizing the soil and increasing production.
We offer non-toxic solutions to eliminate the weeds and keep them out through ecological agriculture systems and practices.
We also offer optional Site Visit Reports that offer phased recommendations to help you reach your goals and Master Plant Lists that give you a wide range of site-adapted plants to choose from to develop an agroecosystem that is not dependent on outside inputs.
Permaculture, Edible Landscape, Farm, and Forest Design
If you wanted to build your dream house; would you rather wing it with no experience or hire a master carpenter? Wouldn't you rather do it right the first time?
Agroecosystems are extremely complex, it takes decades of on-the-ground experience utilizing a wide variety of ecological land management systems to design functional and productive landscapes, forests, and farms that thrive.
Agroforestry and permaculture design are just two of the powerful tools in efficient land planning and management that we use.
We offer landscape design services, site maps, planting maps, phased farm & garden development plans, and much more.
Landscape Installation
Our strategic installation method is based on 20+ years doing agroforestry research plantings to eliminate the weeds completely and fill in with groundcovers, flowers, native plants, and more.
We do phased installations designed to reduce labor and expenses down the road. Within weeks of planting, the land is transformed and full of life.
Landscape Maintenance
We offer professional landscape maintenance services including mowing, weed whacking, pruning, tree trimming, fertilization, natural pest control, and more.
Portfolio
We have grown over 1,000 species of non-invasive native, edible, cultural, ornamental, and useful plants in plant communities that we designed, installed, and maintained.
We are the only permaculture landscapers designing and installing ecological gardens, farms, and forests that utilize successional agroforests that transform wastelands into wonderlands.
Some of the sites we have revitalized include: a former rubbish dump, rock quarry, decommissioned railroad grade, abandoned dirt roads, gravel parking lots, rocky grounds, and old cane fields with extremely depleted and compacted soil.
This is what permaculture, agroforestry, and ecological land management can look like on the land you care for.
Notice what is missing from the pictures: weeds!