archibald menzies, the botanist and biologist with george vancouver in the original english expeditions, first recorded in his logs to the royal london society the fact that he'd seen agriculture in hawaii like he'd never seen anywhere else before and that these systems were more abundant, more productive than anything they had ever experienced around the world. he also added that the only thing left to do is to make plantation workers out of these people. the united states, through the illegal takeover of hawaii in 1893 to 1898, undermined hawaii's agricultural capacities. hawaii moved into this raging sugarcane monocrop production, as well as pineapple monocrop production, wherein they totally decimated the land. and organizations like monsanto, they got a foothold in hawaiian in the 1950s. these indigenous practices... disregarded by the americans from 1898 to the present day, have led to the environmental degradation of hawaii. (sawing) we still have the memory, and we're working on trying to reestablish those food systems. food forests are designed to capture water and hold water.