Faculty:
Executive Director: Dashiell Kuhr
Financial Officer: Erika Kuhr
Program Coordinator: Leslie Nugent
Communications Director: Deana Evans
Farm Manger: Nicholas Logan
Advisory Board:
Christine Richardson: North Kohala Community Resource Center
Vanessa Stone: Amala Foundation
Kai Malino: Wellness Center
Dr. Deborah and John Winters
Dr. Leslie Yerington
Donna Malta: The Sourdough Express
Bennett Dorrance: New Moon Foundation
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“Ka Pili-Lokahi Me La’au Lapa’au Kanaka Maoli” ”The Relationship with Hawaiian Medicinal Plants”
My name is Kai Ke-ali’i-ke-a’e-hale O Kaholokai, aka Clyde Norman Dement, 
a Native Hawaiian Herbalist and Lomi Lomi Practitioner.
January 21st, 1949, Honolulu, Hawaii
* B.A. Degree Anthropology/Sociology-minor History.
* Archaeologist, Taro Farmer, Spear/Net Fisherman, County LifeGuard,
* American Red Cross 1st Aid, CPR, and LifeGuard Instructor,
* Family Genealogist & Researcher, Native Cultural Photographer,
* Demonstrator, Lecturer, and Instructor, Makapu’u Paipo & Body Surfer.
* Graduated & Apprenticeship from Aunty Margaret Machado’s
School of Hawaiian Lomi Lomi in 1987.
* Hawaii License Massage Therapist since 1988.
* Attended Dr. Vasant Lad’s classes at the Ayurvedic Institute in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
* 3 Months Apprenticeship with Ayurvedic Doctors in Bombay, India
with Dr. Pankaj & Smita Naram.
* Attended Papa Henry Auwae’s Herbal Classes in Hilo, Waimea,
and Kohala area.
* Competed Ho’ohalike Ko Kahiko Hou La’au Lapa’au Course
with Papa Kalua Kaiahua.
* Propagating & Gathering Indigenous Hawaiian Plants in North Kohala
District since 1973.
* Inspired & influences by Uncle Tommy Soloman from North Kohala &
Uncle Sam Hart from South Kona.
* Established the Kai Malino Wellness Center since 1988,
whereby creating Educational Workshops for Groups or Organizations.
* Began marketing Hawaiian herbal products at Health Food Stores and
supplying Hawaiian Practitioners and Individuals since 1990.
* Began marketing at Waimea Hawaiian Homestead Farmers Market on
Saturdays since 2008.
* Vision is to share the message of Pili-Lokahi or Relationship with
the La’au Lapa’au (Medicinal Plants).
“Man’s relationship with Nature is to trust that now evolved
herbal plants create a new form of fire breath energy for life.”
Aloha ‘aina,
Kai K. Kaholokai
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ANDREA DEAN 
Sustainable Initiatives principal Andrea Dean, MBA is a SocioEcoPreneur who partners with communities, businesses and non-profits on initiatives that enhance island environment, economy and community.
Sustainable Initiatives works on a broad range of projects and provides services which include: community organizing, community education initiatives, feasibility studies, project management, grant management, facilitation, new media and traditional media communications.
Current projects include: Ho’oulu ka ‘Ulu- a project to revitalize breadfruit for food security in Hawaii; the formation of the Hawaii Alliance for a Local Economy (HALE), a local chapter of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies); and the North Kohala Eat Locally Grown Campaign.
Andrea Dean’s business and non-profit clients have included Volcano Island Honey Company, Varroa Mite Steering Committee, Hawaii Island Economic Development Board, the Kohala Center, Maui Film Festival, Waimea Community Development Plan Committee and the Kona Earth Festival.
Andrea is also a writer, speaker, podcaster and occasional performance artist with a focus on telling Hawaii’s sustainability stories. Her writing has been published in many Hawaii-based magazines including: Honolulu Weekly, Ke Ola Magazine, Innov8 (the go! in-flight magazine), Honu Guide, and Hawaii Island Journal.
Andrea has been a featured speaker at the Kuleana Business Conference and Trade Show, Hawaii Island Food Summit, Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce Environmental Conference, Kohala Trash Bash, The Greatest Show Off Earth at the Kahilu Theater, Waimea Rotary, Waimea Middle School, Hawaii Preparatory Academy Student Congress on Sustainability, and many other school, business and community events.
Andrea holds an MBA from the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has taken certification courses in permaculture, grant writing, and coaching, and is an alumnus of Ulumau- The Hawaii Leadership Series.
A native New Yorker, Andrea currently resides on Hawaii Island (aka the Big Island), and previously lived on Maui from 1989 – 2002, where she was the Program Coordinator for the Center for Entrepreneurship at Maui College and a Program Manager for Island Incentives, Inc. Prior to that she worked independently on projects for businesses and non-profits. Her professional career started on Maui in 1989 as an environmental educator and junior member of an environmental consulting firm.
Andrea is dedicated to personal as well as planetary health and is a healthy, local foods eater and mildly obsessive exerciser. She likes to run, swim, dance, meditate, chant, and read.
Dashiell Kuhr
Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agricultures’ Executive Director Dashiell Kuhr, is actively engaged in developing education and outreach programs that inspire people to farm, eat local foods, and create new sustainable systems of living, while he is working on sustainable development eco-village projects and other green business concepts to foster the arising of a new green economy on the planet.
The Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture conducts education training courses, field trip program, school garden mentorship program, community workshops and festivals, based in Kohala Hawaii.
Dashiell started as an educator working with San Diego youth in 2001, coordinating nutrition, agriculture and mentorship education programs in San Diego for 7 years before moving to HAwaii. His subjects of study which he also enjoys teaching include agriculture, health and healing, spirituality, politics, sociology and economics.
Dashiell’s approach to education has been hands on, mentor based learning, studying with numerous business and non-profit leaders. He served on Board of Directors of Ocean Beach Peoples Food Cooperative in San Diego for fours years, program coordinator for school garden program at World Beat Cultural Center, field trip coordinator and apprentice for La Milpa Organica farm, farm manager of Uluwehi Farm and Nursery permaculture farm, principle organizer for Hawaii Youth agriculture program, which organized a series of ag. education programs, community workshops and festivals, and recently co-founder of the Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture.
Over the last 10 years of teaching about and researching the current crisis humanity faces and solutions to the problems he has helped pioneer an unique education process that triggers rapid mental emotional and physical and spiritual growth in students. Currently he is teaching permaculture and other subjects, as HIP Ag’s lead teacher and director.
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Keith D’Agostino
Keith has been involved in Permaculture since 1997, when he was
terminally infected at his first PDC on the Island of Molokai in
Hawai’i. He went on from there to intern with Douglas Bullock & Family
at the Bullock Brother’s Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island.
He has worked on projects throughout the USA, Hawai’i, Mexico, Costa
Rica, New Zealand, & Australia. Keith’s passions include whole-systems
design, traditional agricultural systems, water harvesting earthworks,
agroforestry, horticulture, learning, eating, traveling, and spending
time with his wife and 3 children.
Keith is co-founder and director of Pacific Basin Permaculture, a
North Kohala based professional landscape design consultancy that
specializes in land planning, project management and education
throughout Hawai’i, the Pacific Basin and beyond.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Planning & Design from
Rutgers University (USA) and a Masters Degree in Landscape
Architecture from the University of Melbourne (AUS).
