Well Being of the Land

Our vision is to achieve well being in communities through Food Security, following the Natural Order of Land Stewardship and Farming, Incorporating Cultural Protocols, diets, medicine and spiritual practices into the community, while helping the people and land heal themselves.

Change and healing is a product of Vision, Culture, Natural Order, Cultural principles and values guided by Elders. There is but one absolute; “Nature will do what is Natural, how we value and work with nature will result in what we receive in return for what we have given.”

Ignacio Fleishour - Founding Director - BS in International Business, Crown University. Ignacio holds Certificates in Anthropology, Archeaology, Geography and Outdoor Medicine from University of Arizona Field School. He has led Field Schools in outdoor medicine and experiential education in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Yosemite, Colorado, Arizona and Hawaii. Experience in Geogrpahy, Outdoor Leaderhip School, Leave No Trace, Winners’ Camp Outdoor Experitential Director, President of Youth Ending Hunger, Navy League Treasurer, Captains Club IT Director, Sierra National Forest Trail Maintenance and Building Team Leader, he is also a Search and Rescue and Native Tracker practitioner. Ignacio has served as an Inner City Youth Gang Prevention Leader in Los Anegeles and San Diego, creating programs to bring inner city Youth into the wilderness to build trails and serve others while instilling self reliance and confidence. Ignacio is of Kiowa Apache descent and the Bear Clan, he carries the knowledge and teachings passed to him by his grandparents and elders. The simplest of the teachings is that the bear carries the medicine of the earth and allows us to see how to follow the natural cycle of the earth and it’s seasons. Ignacio is also a Sweat Lodge leader and keeper of the fire knowledge in his people’s tradition.

Ignacio is the CEO of Makana Provisions, a food company focused on the idea of using invasive species for food, working with growers, ranchers, fisher people, and farmers to create cooperatives and follow natural protocols for harvesting and growing. Makana Provisions turns what could be pests, invasives and overflow of farmed products into opportunities, bringing food to markets online and retail outlets creating valuable resources and monetary opportunites for communities. Makana Provisions is a fiscal sponsor of our foundation.

Alessandra Jann-Jordan - MSW Oxford University, BA Anthropology Middeburry. Executive Director of Social Change through connecting to land and place. Alessandra is an Award winning social worker in New York City, she has published books on family building and connections, worked as a Hawaii State Auditor overseeing the well being of children and parents in the Foster care programs, She is the current Director of Quality Assurance at PACT (Parents and Children Together), She served as Executive Director of Captain’s Club serving and teaching foster children life skills and teamwork through sailing. Alessandra has traveled, lived and worked in France, Italy, Peru and Mexico while working and volunteering in orphanages and farms. She speaks Italian, German, Spanish, French, and of course English and currently learning Hawaiian. Alessandra is also an avid artist and holds a second Masters from Oxford in Renaisance Art and Manuscripts.

David Gonzalves - Director of Story Preservation and Logistics Controller. David brings his experience as a retired professional surfer and 20 year veteran of the film industry to Makana ‘Aina. Having worked on sets, behind the scenes, behind the camera and as a logistics and traffic control expert, David leads the charge for our story keeping and telling as well as being our logistics trainer for our Ag business incubator.