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Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Captain Cook, HI

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Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden

A 15-acre biocultural garden in South Kona showing native and Polynesian-introduced plants, plus an ancient Hawaiian agricultural site.

82-6160 Hawaii Belt Rd, Captain Cook, HI 96704 · Captain Cook, HI

About Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden

This garden in South Kona covers about 15 acres and is a protected patch of land that keeps plants and farming features from an earlier era. It is also an officially designated community forest. Its collection includes more than 200 native and Polynesian-introduced species, among them taro, banana, and rare endangered plants such as kōki'o. A roughly 5-acre archaeological area preserves the remains of old Hawaiian upland farm fields in Kona. The garden was bequeathed to Bishop Museum in 1974, opened to the public in 1988, and moved to community ownership in 2019. Visitors can walk through several ecological zones, from coastal and dry forest to wet forest and farmland. Events such as a farmers market and volunteer days are held on the grounds.

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