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Peahi Farms at Opana Point
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Maui's North Shore Sustainable Community
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With only 15 agricultural homesites available for purchase, Peahi Farms is truly an offer for a discriminating, fortunate few. Yet its visionary plan can point the way to a whole new kind of development for Maui, one that protects the land, its heritage, and its future.
At Peahi Farms, you have found a spirit in harmony with your own. And you think—not for the first time—that as surely as you have chosen Maui, Maui has chosen you. The pristine beauty of Maui’s rugged north shore provides the ultimate escape to an unhurried lifestyle.
The powerful pull of the ebb and flow of Pe‘ahi, the great wave, brings in the tide and seeds of change. Welcome to Pe‘ahi Farms, an uncommon precedent-setting community that sustains and blends with the ‘aina and your true nature.
There is a place on Maui where life is at once simpler and more profound, where the night sky glitters undimmed by city lights, and you wake to the scent of salt spray, the mesmerizing rhythm of distant surf. Here, it is easy to forget how close you are to the championship golf courses, award-winning restaurants, and luxury resorts that contribute to Maui’s status as the best island in the world. Here, at Opana Point, near the legendary surf spot known as “Jaws,” is the home you’ve been looking for—and a revolutionary concept in community.
In 2003, Pe‘ahi Farms purchased 240 acres at Opana Point on Maui’s secluded north shore—the first step in developing a low-impact, low-density agricultural community.
For the rare individual in whom success and social conscience combine, Pe‘ahi Farms offers an exceptional opportunity to do good by living well—in a home whose ocean views extend unbroken to the horizon, a community whose vision encompasses a greener, sustainable future for this irreplaceable island.
Pe‘ahi Farms is located on the Hana Highway just beyond Pa‘ia on the north eastern shore of Maui. It is off the beaten track, yet minutes from Kahului Airport, Maui’s largest retail shopping center, and The Maui Arts & Cultural Center, the state’s first center for performing and visual arts.
Fifteen 4-acre agricultural homesites are strung like pearls along sea cliffs that rise 130 feet above the dramatic shoreline. Their presence makes possible a new model of farming for Maui, sustainable agriculture that honors the environment, fosters research and education, and emphasizes diversity.
Set behind a narrow conservation easement along the sea cliffs at Opana Point, Pe‘ahi Farms’ homesites boast sweeping 360-degree views in one of the island’s loveliest locations. CC&Rs and intelligently placed building envelopes make the most of each owner’s panorama, while preserving view corridors for one’s neighbors—creating an enclave of homes sensitive to the needs of the whole.
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HISTORY - Maui’s windward coast has always supported a bountiful agriculture. Ancient Hawaiians grew sweet potato and taro here, and gathered fruits and medicinal plants that sustained their indigenous culture. Western investors transformed these arable lands into vast plantations of sugar cane and pineapple. Over time, mono-cropping depleted the soil. In the meantime, foreign competition eroded the market for these labor-intensive crops. One by one, Hawaii’s sugar plantations and pineapple canneries succumbed, closing their doors and leaving many of them fallow.
More recent attempts to shift to small-scale agriculture have been forced to confront the reality of skyrocketing land values, which price acreage beyond the means of those with a will to farm. Prime ag land is carved into patchwork parcels of 2 to 40 acres— too small, in most cases, to generate a profit through farming. Instead, “gentlemen’s estates” and ranchette subdivisions spring up. Lacking communal infrastructure, they further tax Maui’s delicate ecosystem and limited resources which is juxtaposed to the idea that on Maui, the environment is our economy. Worse, open agricultural land is lost forever to the mosaic created by a land division policy that misses its intended purpose and farms—like old growth forests—cease to exist.
THE FARM - Led by The Everhart Company, Inc., an award-winning development team, Pe‘ahi Farms has created an alternative as practical as it is visionary. While the 240-acre site at Opana Point is zoned for sixteen lots, most of the parcel— approximately 180 acres (100 acres fee simple and 80 acres ag easement)— is dedicated for farm use through a series of easements. This acreage is currently open field, punctuated by deep gulches lush with papaya, mango, banana, guava, and native shrubs. Pe‘ahi Farms will gradually convert the land to a diversity of marketable crops: a nursery of indigenous trees, plants, and shrubs; a truck farm of organic produce; pastures where beef cattle will graze on a variety of organic grasses.
VISION - Like any other enterprise, agriculture requires energy: to pump water, plow fields, and illuminate barns and workers’ housing. Typically, each new venture adds to the burden on Maui’s fragile infrastructure. As a working farm, and additionally as a teaching facility, Pe‘ahi Farms envisions a uniquely different paradigm. Employing turbines to harness the trade winds, and possibly solar panels to harvest the warmth of Maui’s sun, Pe‘ahi Farms is planning for energy self-sufficiency. Whether you choose conventional or alternative energy sources to meet the needs of your Pe‘ahi Farms home, you can take pride in being part of a community that promises to be a powerful model and positive influence on Maui’s future.
As an educational and research facility, the farm will promote strategic relationships with the University of Hawai‘i, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and other state and federal agencies, linking ongoing studies in water and soil conservation, alternative energies, and organic growing practices. Under normal weather conditions, the farm can even generate surplus electricity that may feed into Maui Electric Company’s grid, providing MECO with clean, renewable power; reducing dependency on high-sulfur diesel fuel; and helping to compensate for energy consumption by Opana Point homeowners.
AMENITIES - Your nearest neighbor is the ocean. At your back door lie pastures that will preserve open space and panoramic views, generation after generation. With such scenic seclusion, you could be tempted never to leave home. Then again, this is Maui, an island of myriad activities and adventures.
Maui’s acclaimed resort destinations are a short drive away, with distinctive shopping, dining, golf courses, and luxury spas. In half that time you can be Upcountry in Makawao, former cowboy town turned art colony. Makawao has retained its rustic charm, even as saddle shops and watering holes yielded to boutique stores, galleries, and four-star restaurants, enough to attract the admiration of The New York Times. A half-hour’s drive (13.5 miles) along the ocean brings you to Kahului, hub of isle commerce, county government, and international airport—your springboard to the Pacific Rim. Convenient, direct flights daily from the West Coast allow travelers to return home to Maui in time for a late lunch. A ribbon of white sandy beaches extends along this scenic route from Ho‘okipa to Kanaha, where families and enthusiasts play at a variety of activities and sports in this incomparable setting.
Closer still is the historic plantation town of Pa‘ia. In the decades since Ho‘okipa Beach gained fame as the windsurfing capital of the world, Pa‘ia’s picturesque character has acquired a cosmopolitan sheen—the languages of Europe and the Far East mingle with local dialects at the town’s great restaurants, eclectic shops, and evening entertainments.
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Gary J. Mooers, Realtor/Broker
Coldwell Banker Island Properties
3750 Wailea Alanui #B-35
Wailea, HI 96753 |
Direct: (808) 891-8989
Office: (808) 874-8668
Fax: (808) 874-8626
Email: Gary@GMMaui.com |
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