Empowering young women to build their own systems of financial, spiritual, and agriculture success.

Growing Leaders. Restoring Knowledge. Building Futures.

The Herban Hapa Youth Apprenticeship Program is a land-based education and leadership pathway for Indigenous youth ages 17-24, rooted in culture, wellness, and community empowerment. This is not job training alone. It is a life training program grounded in mauli (life force), ʻōlākino (holistic wellness), and lōkahi (unity, balance, harmony).

We believe the land is a classroom, culture is curriculum, and community is the teacher.


Why This Program Exists

Too many Indigenous youth are disconnected from land, culture, and economic opportunity. They are often told what they cannot become instead of what they already are. This program exists to change that.

We create pathways for young people to:

  • Build confidence and leadership

  • Learn land-based skills

  • Access economic opportunity

  • Reclaim cultural knowledge

  • Heal intergenerational trauma

  • Develop identity and purpose

  • Agriculture as power, not labor

  • Culture as strength, not history

This is about sovereignty, not survival.

Who This Is For

This program centers:

  • Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous, Hawaiian, Pasifika, Mixed-ancestry young women.

  • Youth seeking land-based futures

  • Youth disconnected from traditional education systems

We prioritize those who are often excluded from traditional agricultural, academic, and economic opportunities.


With mentors from villages around Pasifika and turtle island, women will move through the full cycle of growing and stewarding plants to bringing finished products to community in Hana, Maui. Apprentices participate in on-farm training, processing and production days, community markets and events, and skill-building workshops that strengthen agricultural, business, and leadership capacity. Through cultural education circles, mentorship, and community service projects, they deepen their connection to ʻike, practice collective responsibility, and build the confidence and experience needed for long-term employment and leadership in land-based economies.

Youth are paid for their labor and their learning — because knowledge should never be accessed through exploitation.

Why This Matters

Our communities face:

  • Disconnection from land

  • Cultural erasure

  • Economic exclusion

  • Educational barriers

  • Intergenerational trauma

  • Limited access to opportunity

This program creates real pathways, not symbolic ones.
It builds ownership, not dependency.
It creates leaders, not laborers.
It restores relationship, not extraction.


Join the Program

Whether you are a young person, parent, educator, funder, or community partner — there is a place for you here.

This is more than an apprenticeship.
This is a return to land.
This is a return to culture.
This is a return to self.
This is a return to community


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