Our story
Where farm meets ocean
When I found this land, it had been trashed by chemicals, plastic, over-tilling, mono-cropping, and further extractive farming practices. I recognized that tending to this place on the planet wasn’t only about picking up the trash and regenerating the soil but also about restoring my connection to myself and mother earth.
Jasmine Scalesciani Hawken
flower park
& herb farm
Nua Nakūi now serves as an enclave of goodness, growing chemical-free food for our community and providing home to several families, birds, bees, insects, and the random stray cat.
Sometimes a home can inform a lifetime
As a child I had the privilege of living in several countries and experience a diverse flavor of cultures. Each educated my design eye and impressed upon me the sense of wild and the taste of freedom. The most significant of these places was on the island of Sardegna in Italy where my parents, alongside esteemed architect Alberto Ponis, built a unique house that blurred the lines between indoors and out. An untamed place that allowed me to be feral and stay true to what it means to be intuitively human. This natural home and lifestyle remain the guiding principles showing me how-to live-in harmony with mother earth. The origins of my love for designing and living attuned with the natural environment started then and something I continue to tend to today.
To come upon an unexpected moment of untamed nature and the awe and generosity it procures • To bite into a sun-ripened fruit on a hot summer day • To taste the smell of petrichor after a rain • To glance a sunset that takes our breath away • To know a pitch-dark night free from light pollution that lets the sky jewels shine through • This after all, is the wondrous planet, our true muse and only physical space we know as home.