In re-imagining a future for Kamaliʻi Park, it’s helpful to look into its past. Here is an excerpt from an insurance map from 1914, updated in 1922. Besides the Central Fire Station, the most prominent building is the Fort Street Chinese Church (see church history).
Source: Insurance maps of Honolulu, Oahu Territory of Hawaii, 1914, Sanborn Map Company, New York. Updated to 1922. (Hawaii State Archives)
Hazel’s Harvest — a short film about the IHS urban agriculture program
Just over half a mile Ewa of Kamaliʻi Park is the Institute for Human Services (IHS). In the short film “Hazel’s Harvest,” produced for IHS by Urban Fork Productions in 2011, we learn about the agency’s urban agriculture program and follow several homeless clients as they seek potential sites for edible landscapes.
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The film screened at Bike-In 3.0 at Old Stadium Park (Moiliili) in September 2013 along with “Ingredients Hawaii.” IHS was among the many groups supporting the concept of a food forest at Kamaliʻi Park.