Introduction
Situated in the ahupua’a of Kealakekua in South Kona, Hawai’i Island, Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden (AGEG) is a community forest and cultural landscape dedicated to Hawai’i’s biocultural heritage. The Garden is unique on Hawai’i Island as the only site primarily devoted to endemic and indigenous Hawaiian plants, along with the "canoe plants" carried by Polynesian voyagers.
Within its 13.6 acres—11.8 acres of which are designated as Community Forest under the USDA Forest Service Community Forest and Open Space Program—AGEG protects living collections of over 250 species and varieties of native and Polynesian-introduced trees and plants, many of them rare or endangered, alongside archaeological sites that testify to centuries of Hawaiian land use and ingenuity.