Our Story
Born from Adversity. Built with Purpose. Growing with Aloha.
Lots of Integrity is a father-and-son company rooted in faith, family, and a deep love for the land. This is our story — and why we believe a home can be so much more than a place to live.
Jon & Ikaika Perry
Founders, Lots of Integrity — building their permaculture food forest and Garden of Peace in Florida.
Where We Started
Two generations. One vision. A miracle that started it all.
Before there was a company, before there was a farm, before there was a vision — there was a prayer. When Karen was pregnant with Ikaika, Jon and Karen went in for an ultrasound and received news no parent is prepared to hear. The doctors had found three markers that concerned them deeply. Their son, they were told, would likely be born with Trisomy 18 — a condition that takes most babies' lives within the first twelve to eighteen months. The doctor encouraged them to end the pregnancy. Jon and Karen said no.
They are Christians. They believe in the power of prayer. So they called on every prayer warrior they knew and asked them to go to war in the spirit for this baby. They trusted God with the outcome. And God answered. Ikaika was born completely healthy — no problems, no complications, no trace of what the doctors had feared. Jon and Karen gave their son right back to the Lord. They named him Ikaika me ke aloha mai ke Akua — which means, in Hawaiian, "Strong with Love from God." They pray every day that Ikaika honors God in his life. That name is not a coincidence. It is a covenant.
Lots of Integrity was founded by Jon and Ikaika Perry — father and son. Jon was born and raised in Waimanalo, on the island of O'ahu, on Hawaiian Homestead Lands. Ikaika was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Jon spent more than two decades buying old homes, apartments, and commercial properties — some of the ugliest buildings in the area — and giving them a complete makeover. Jon has always had a passion for repurposing what others have written off, and for helping to beautify the communities around him.
In February of 2020, Jon and his wife Karen, along with two business partners, opened a Hawaiian fast-casual restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh. One month after opening, the world changed. The state of Pennsylvania shut down small businesses deemed non-essential, and overnight, food costs skyrocketed two to four times what they had been paying wholesale. Not willing to pass those increases on to customers, and facing an operating environment that made sustainability impossible, the restaurant eventually had to close. It was a painful chapter — but it opened a door.
During that same period, Jon had been watching the lending markets closely. The patterns he was seeing looked eerily familiar — similar to what he had witnessed before the 2008 crash, which had nearly bankrupted him personally. He and his family had lost their home to foreclosure. They had lost properties. That kind of pain doesn't leave you — it reshapes you. Jon became an even more determined, out-of-the-box thinker. And when the government implemented pandemic-era moratoriums without ever explaining what would happen when they lifted — that all the back payments would come due at once — Jon knew another wave was coming. Those chickens, as he says, are now coming home to roost.
Watching Florida Governor Ron DeSantis keep businesses open while other states shuttered theirs, Jon made a decision: it was time to move his 'ohana to the Free State of Florida. Ikaika had two years of high school left, so they settled in Saint Johns — in the best school district in the state at the time. Ikaika thrived. He finished strong. And then they learned, the hard way, what it means to live under an HOA. No chickens. No weeds. Nasty letters in the mailbox. The moment Ikaika graduated, they sold the house and moved to the country — to land, to freedom, and to the chance to grow with Aloha.
The Vision
Every home can be an asset — not an overpriced liability.
We call it the Food-Producing Home™.
Today, Jon and Ikaika are doing the heavy lifting at their own family farm, building a permaculture food forest and what they call their Garden of Peace. They are working toward growing as much of their own grocery list as possible on their property. They wanted a well and septic to reduce monthly expenses. They wanted land and the freedom to raise chickens, grow food, and build something that gives back. And they want that for other families too — especially the next generation of homebuyers who feel like they can never afford to own a home. When you add up a mortgage, rising food costs, property taxes, insurance, utilities, and groceries, it doesn't take long to max out a family's income. Jon has lived that reality. He knows what it costs — financially and emotionally — when a home becomes an unsustainable burden.
The Garden of Peace — Saint Johns, FL
The Model
Land. Home. Food. Three connected engines.
We identify and acquire strategically located land and residential opportunities with the potential for responsible development.
We partner with homebuilders to turn those lots into communities — giving builders a differentiated story and buyers a home worth talking about.
Through our edible landscape and regenerative agriculture programs, homeowners can transform ordinary yards into productive gardens, orchards, and food forests.
Our Mission
More families in homes they can afford, with yards that help feed them.
We believe the future of housing can be about more than providing shelter. We are building a new model that connects land, housing, and regenerative agriculture to help families create more productive, resilient, and affordable lives. By partnering with landowners, homebuilders, and homeowners, we help transform residential properties into places where people can live, grow food, reconnect with nature, and build a stronger future.
What We Believe
Integrity isn't just in the name.
Faith is our foundation
Our love for Jesus Christ is what guides our lives, our hopes, and our dreams. We exist to honor God with everything we build. Ikaika's very name — "Strong with Love from God" — is a daily reminder of what we are here to do and who we are here to serve.
We've lived the problem
We lost a home to foreclosure in 2008. We lost a restaurant to a pandemic. We lived under an HOA that wouldn't let us grow food. We're not theorizing about housing hardship — we've been inside it.
We do the work ourselves
Jon and Ikaika are building their own permaculture food forest and Garden of Peace on their family farm. We don't sell what we haven't done. We grow what we teach.
We think generationally
This company exists because a father and son looked at the housing market and refused to accept that the next generation couldn't afford to own a home. We're building a model that changes that math.
We grow with Aloha
Aloha is not just a greeting. It is a way of being — generous, grounded, and deeply connected to the land and the people around you. That spirit is at the root of everything we do.
Growing with Aloha
We're documenting the whole journey — the land, the food forest, the Garden of Peace, and everything we're learning along the way. Real farm life. Real food. Real family. Subscribe to the Growing with Aloha YouTube channel and be the first to know when we go live.
Subscribe on YouTubeWhere We're Headed
A Network of Farms. A New Kind of Neighborhood.
The Garden of Peace is just the beginning. Jon and Ikaika are actively acquiring farms and rural land across the United States — not to flip them, but to farm them. Each property becomes part of a growing regenerative food production network: assessed, stewarded, and put to work growing food for real families.
Where the land and the opportunity align, those properties become the foundation for Food-Producing Home communities — neighborhoods where every yard is designed to grow food from day one. Builder partners bring the homes. We bring the land, the agricultural knowledge, and the edible landscape program that turns a backyard into a productive asset.
The vision is simple: more families in homes they can afford, with yards that help feed them. The path to get there runs through land — acquired with integrity, farmed with purpose, and built upon with care. That's the Lots of Integrity model. And we're just getting started.
Ready to be part of what we're building?
Whether you have land to sell, a community to build, or a family looking for a different kind of home — we'd love to talk.