“Our mission is to support healthy soil biology by leveraging inherent natural systems & foster a safe, healthy approach to land management.”
Join us in cultivating and healing landscapes the Pono way.
SoilThrive Hawai’i partners with nature to offer locally sourced biologically active products for land restoration and reef friendly maintenance. our range includes living composts, extracts, teas, mulches, and cutting-edge innovations designed to harmonize with nature in stewarding land sustainably.
Control Pests & Disease
The vast majority of disease causing microorganisms are anaerobes, meaning they thrive in low oxygen conditions and that they shut-down in oxygen rich environments. The opposite is true for beneficial microorganisms. A well-structured soil allows air to flow in, creating an oxygen rich environment (>6ppm) which selects for beneficial microorganisms and suppresses disease causing organisms.
With the Soil Food Web in place, the plant is nutrient rich and therefore better able to protect itself, whilst diseases are inhibited by the conditions in the soil.
No More Fertilizer.
Nutrient Cycling. This is the process by which beneficial microorganisms harvest nutrients from soil organic matter and also from the ‘parent material’. Rocks, pebbles, sand particles, silts and clays are all considered ‘parent material’. On a molecular level, they comprise crystalline structures that are not easily broken down. These structures contain atoms of iron, boron, phosphorus, calcium, potassium etc. Plants are not capable of directly accessing the nutrients in these structures.
Bacteria and fungi, however, produce enzymes that break-down these structures, thus releasing the nutrients they contain. The bacteria and fungi readily absorb these nutrients, which are later made available to plant roots when bacterial and fungal predators consume their prey and subsequently excrete their waste. It is this waste material that plants absorb – a nutrient dense liquid food source that can be absorbed directly into the plant root.
Our Partnerships
Food Security Hawaiʻi believes that the solution to island-wide food security and global climate change are one in the same - creating carbon-rich fertile soils for local food production.
For over 40 years, Maui Gold has produced Hawaii’s famously sweet pineapple. Grown on the slopes of Maui’s Haleakala where the days are warm and the evenings cool, Maui Gold pineapples enjoy fresh water and nutrient-rich volcanic soil. Hand-harvested to ensure they’re picked at their peak ripeness, our pineapples are prized for their superior sweetness, high levels of Vitamin C and low acidity.
healthy coral reefs
clean ocean water
abundant native fish
