about us
The Kealakekua Forest Nursery opened in August 2019 and is now the largest native plant nursery on the Hawai'i Island. We specialize in growing native trees and shrubs for restoration and conservation projects, including koa, ‘iliahi (sandalwood), a‘ali‘i, mamane, naio, ‘ōhi‘a, and kolea, among many others.
In the past two years, we have grown over 200,000 native seedlings for local restoration projects and have another 70,000 currently growing in our nursery. We have nursery capacity to handle orders ranging in size, with a requested minimum order of 50 plants.
OUR Services
We collect, process, track, and store seeds for grow-out in our nursery, but we can also support seedling grow-out if you have your own seed.
Kealakekua Forest Nursery is primarily a contract nursery; please call ahead of time to place your seedling order or to check on availability.
Please call our nursery at (808) 339-2815 to ask for our current inventory or place a future order for your planting project.
Place your order
please call ahead of time to place your seedling order or to check on availability (see sample order form below).
Please call our nursery at (808) 937-4732 and have the HIGHLIGHTED information on the form available when calling.
