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Friends of Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden PO Box 1053 Captain Cook, HI 96704
July 18th, 2022
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To: Chair Matt Kaneali i-Kleinfelder, Vice Chair Heather Kimball, and
Members of the Finance Committee of County Council
From: Alan Rolph, President of Board
Friends of Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
Re: Support for Resolution 449-22
Aloha Chair, Vice Chair and Members of the Finance Committee,
Aloha, I'm Alan Ralph, President of the Friends of Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden Board.
The Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is located in Captain Cook. The Garden is a non-
profit organization set up when the Friends purchased the Garden in 2019 from Bishop
Museum after it was closed in 2016 and put up for sale. Significant Federal, State and County
funding helped us greatly in this purchase,to preserve this small piece of the once extensive
Kona Field system.
Our strategic plan for the Garden is to bring it forward to be a community hub, beyond keeping
it maintained as a beautiful culturally significant Garden. We plan to do this with regular native
Hawaiian plant sales from our nursery, and cultural and botanical educational activities for
keiki, adults and families. The Gardens plants are springing back under a great Garden manager,
however our buildings, especially our 2 older residences, have been neglected and are in
significant need of maintenance and repurposing to meet our strategic goals for the
community.
We thank you for your current and continuing support through the County's public access
Maintenance Stewardship fund. Mahalo
Alan Rolph
President of Board Friends of Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
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