From Mauka & Makai

Mauka to makai. The two directions that orient everything in Hawaiʻi. Where you are, where you're going, how you give someone directions home.

We came from two different places.

Alana grew up mauka, in Kula, on the slopes of Haleakalā. Moses grew up makai, in Kailua on Oʻahu. We spent nearly a decade together in California before making our way back to Kula three years ago. Back to the slopes Alana grew up on, and the place that had been pulling us home.

That return is where Mauka Makai General began.

Not a concept, but a practice that accumulated. Time spent together in the kitchen, the workshop, the garden, the studio. Conversations with farmers, chefs, artists, and neighbors doing their own work close to the land. Two people with different disciplines finding common ground in the same place, and making something from it.

Alana has spent years documenting Hawaiʻi's food culture. Moses has spent two decades working across lifestyle and technology industries, collaborating with designers and innovators around the world. The practice lives in Kula now, and this is what we make from here.

Aloha.

Moses + Alana
Kula, Maui — Spring 2026