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A pristine paradise encompassing 183 acres in Upcountry Maui that bills itself as Hawaii’s first self-sufficient community is on the market for $38 million.
Karin Frost, the creator and founder of the Los Angeles-based stroller and infant-carrier maker Ergobaby, bought the property in 2012, two years after she sold her majority stake in her company for $91 million, according to published accounts.
All that existed on the property when she purchased it were cattle and a wellhead, and she said she has spent over $20 million developing it into an environmentally sustainable retreat named Hōkūnui Maui—hōkūnui means “expansion” in Hawaiian.
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Hōkūnui Maui now has its own power grid with a Tesla energy storage system, two solar-powered LEED Gold-certified houses and a private water system that pumps out 1 million gallons a day. Frost said the project was a way “to give back to our community and try and do something good for the planet.”
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Up to 12 more residences may be built on the property, a seven-lot agricultural subdivision. (The subdivision application may be expanded to a total of 18 lots and 36 houses, according to the listing.)
Noting that she, her father and her brother had a “vision to create a self-sufficient community of like-minded people,” Frost said that Hōkūnui Maui “offers large, legacy pasture lots with a turnkey regenerative farming program.”
For a century and a half, the land had been planted with sugar cane and then pineapple. These monocrops, she said, had drained it of its nutrients, leaving it virtually functionless.
Every element of the community’s design reflects Frost’s commitment to nurturing the land’s resources. The roads she built, for instance, are sloped slightly toward the ditches, which catch the rainwater and run a pair of ponds that use rainwater for irrigation.
“We try to tap into the aquifers as little as possible,” she said.
She added that “Hōkūnui Maui is perpetuating the ancient but very much living Hawaiian culture through our collective purpose: to grow, to learn, to thrive, to find joy daily and to be responsible stewards of the environment.”
The 3,285-square-foot main house has four bedrooms and three bathrooms, a 1,015-square-foot covered lanai and a detached two-car garage. The 1,000-square-foot freestanding guest cottage has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Like the main house, it has a covered, although larger, lanai of 1,235 square feet and a detached two-car garage.
“Hōkūnui is an expansive, private and self-sufficient sanctuary … [this property offers] a one-of-a-kind opportunity to create your vision today,” said Brook Starr of Mango Tree Realty, who co-listed it earlier this year with Paul Stukin of Deep Blue HI.
Aside from the residential component, the property includes a 4-acre parcel that serves as the home base for Hula Halau, a school that, according to its website, teaches Hawaiian dance as part of its mission “to perpetuate the Hawaiian tradition, culture and heritage through its arts, beliefs, dance, language and agriculture.”
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The school’s website also notes that “a strong connection to the land is an essential part of the hula experience,” adding that its 6,000-square-foot community building on Frost’s property houses a cultural-historical center, classrooms and two dance floors.
Sited between two gulches and surrounded by green, rolling hills, the large acreage has 360-degree ocean views.
“I love being able to walk the entire property for hours,” Frost said. “Almost everywhere you stand the view is spectacular.”
Photos, she added, don’t adequately convey the property’s beauty.
“The ocean view to the north is always changing between clear magnificent blue contrasts of ocean and sky and squalls of rain with rainbows in them,” she said.
From the property, she added, you can also see Kahakuloa Point, Molokai’s mountain peaks and point, the West Maui Mountains, Haleakala National Park and the Pu’u Pi’iholo mountain summit.
Frost has lived on Maui, the state’s second largest island, full time since 1997. She started Ergobaby in 2003 when she couldn’t find a suitable carrier for her newborn son.
The Ergobaby collection, which includes strollers, nursing pillows, sleep products, high chairs and bouncers, is sold by more than 700 retailers in the U.S. and over 50 other countries.
Frost, who said she is in her early 60s, sees the property as “an open canvas for the next steward to create their own vision and sanctuary.”
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