Mālama: Cultural Connections at Loko Ea - Hawaii Magazine

Mālama: Cultural Connections at Loko Ea - Hawaii Magazine

It’s 9 a.m. in Hale‘iwa on O‘ahu’s North Shore and surfers, paddlers and visitors are already hitting the beach and surf shops. But there’s another side to the world’s surfing capital: Tucked back from the main road, behind eateries and a row of palm trees, is the nonprofit Mālama Loko Ea, which has been restoring one of O‘ahu’s most abundant ahupua’a (a land division usually extending from the mountains to the sea) and loko pu‘uone (isolated fi…