Grow aloha with Hawaiian native plants and heritage crops at our monthly plant adoptions!

Find a Grow Aloha plant adoption near you!

January plants:

Kauaʻi

NTBG Lāwaʻi Gardens Visitor Center

NTBG Limahuli Garden

Oʻahu

Bishop Museum

Molokaʻi

Molokaʻi Land Trust

🗓️ 📍Schedule and Location Update: Molokaʻi Land Trust’s January 2026 Grow Aloha event will take place during the Makahiki Hoʻolauleʻa on January 24, from 5–8 PM, at the Mitchell Pauole Center in Kaunakakai. This is a one-time change for January only; we will return to our regular third-Saturday schedule in February.

Maui

NTBG Kahanu Garden

📍Location Update: Please note that starting in January 2026, our Grow Aloha events have moved from the Hāna Farmers Market back to Kahanu Garden. Stop by the Visitor Center on Friday during our regular hours (9 am – 3 pm) to pick up your free plant.

Maui Nui Botanical Gardens

Hawaiʻi Island

Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden

🗓️ Schedule Update: This month’s plant adoption at Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is moving to January 25. This is a one-time change for January only; we will return to our regular third-Sunday schedule in February.

Grow Aloha with us! Look what we’ve made happen together:

Hawaiian plants adopted

plant adopters

zip codes represented!

plant species adopted

2025 is Hawaiʻi’s Year of Our Community Forests! Find all the ways to celebrate here.

Upcoming adoptions

Grow Aloha is a hui of plant adoption partners working together to restore Hawaiian plants and our relationships with them.

Grow Aloha artwork created by Carly Lake