50 states, 50 repairs
The air is filled with birds, the ground is a plate of soft vegetables and gentle light. This is ho’ulu ‘āina, 100 acres reserved with an unusual development. Associated with the Community Health Center, a place where patients come to heal the earth and themselves.
With climate change accelerated and the Trump administration abandons the fighting, Holo is one of an example of how people in all fifty states, red and blue, work to restore lands, clean water corridors, cut pollution, and protect wildlife.
50 states, 50 repairs It is a series of local solutions to environmental problems. More to come this year.
Twenty years ago, ho’ulu ‘āina was neglected, and it was overlooked by garbage plants and gaseous plants. But today, it is prosperous.
Volunteers and patients who spend long hours have suffered, removing non -original plants, growing vegetables, fruits and herbs, to restore the body and spirit.
there Increased research This explains how to spend time in nature improve mental, physical and cognitive health, which is directly something that Ho’ulu ruler has witnessed.
The elderly who once relying on sticks and pedestrians have regained some movement. Diabetics witnessed low glucose levels. Poor adolescents grew. In Hawaii, the name Ho’ul “āina” means growth because of the Earth “and they have.
“Many people inside the health center have seen that the Earth is a way to improve human health, a kind of tool,” said Bonnie Jackson, the director of the program at Ho’ulu ‘āina. But for the indigenous people of Hawaii and the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands, who make up the majority of patients in the clinic, the relationship with nature is family and deep, says Ms. Jackson. “It is a sacred relationship,” she said.
Ho’ulu ‘āina is a 10 -minute drive from the clinic, off a nausea road, over a wooden bridge and the upper acute acute corridor that leads to forest -border herbal fields. The Earth contains baking trees, a banana, medicinal plants, tar, organic gardens and low -low buildings, and a small institution where Mrs. Jackson, a practice of original Hawaiian medicine, see patients.