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I. APPLICANT INFORMATION 1. Brief history of the applicant organization. Include the date of incorporation as a non-profit organization. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden (AGEG) is a 13.6-acre site in Captain Cook, Hawaii, dedicated to Hawaiian plants, landscapes, and cultural history. The property was the home of botanist and archaeologist Amy Beatrice Holdsworth Greenwell, who, beginning in the mid-20th century, envisioned it as an educational and cultural resource. She bequeathed the land to the Bishop Museum upon her death in 1974, asking that it be developed as a "garden in the pre-Cookian style." Under Bishop Museum stewardship, ethnobotanist Douglas Yen and archaeologist Patrick Kirch began transforming the site in the late 1970s from abandoned coffee fields into an interpreted Hawaiian cultural landscape, preserving remnants of the Kona Field System—an extensive traditional agricultural network.AGEG opened to the public in 1988 and became a well-known venue for education, research, and cultural events. In 2016, the Bishop Museum closed the Garden and offered it for sale. After a multi-year community campaign, the nonprofit Friends of Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden (incorporated on May 24, 2016 and granted non-profit status on June 17th of the same year) purchased the property in 2019 with funding from State, County, and federal sources, including the USDA Community Forest Program—the first community forest acquisition in the Pacific under that program. The Garden is permanently protected by conservation easements and serves as a living repository of over 250 species of native and Polynesian-introduced plants, a resource for cultural practitioners, a site for scientific research, and a community gathering place. 2. Other source(s) of financial support: In addition to County Stewardship funding, the programs and administration of AGEG are currently supported by a grant from the USDA Forest Service Region 5 Urban and Community Forest program ($2,000,000 for 5 years, 2024-2029), a grant from the HI Department of Land and Natural Resources ($50,000 for 2 years, 2025-2027), a grant from the Kosasa Foundation ($100,000 for 2 years, 2024 - 2026), an anonymous grant of $50,000. We are working on building up other revenue generating activities and establishing an endowment fund to ensure the long term financial sustainability of AGEG. FINAL 2026 Stewardship Grant Application,Page 12 of 13 26-08