To assess whether and how environmental
values and sense of place relate to sustainable farming
practices, we conducted a study in South Kona, Hawaii,
addressing environmental values, sense of place, and farm
sustainability in five categories: environmental health,
community engagement and food security, culture and
history, education and research, and economics. We found
that the sense of place and environmental values indexes
showed significant correlation to each category of sustainability in both independent linear regressions and
multivariate regression. In total, sense of place explained a
larger share of the overall farm performance. However,
each indicator showed relative strengths; environmental
values showed significantly higher correlation to environmental and educational practices. Furthermore the scales
were complimentary, and the use of both scales greatly
improved prediction of good farming practices from a
multiple-impact perspective. With implications for community and environmental impacts, results suggest that a
more comprehensive view of farmers’ environmen