Abstract: Hawai’i is an exceptional model system for understanding ecological, social systems, and their interaction due to a number of biological, geological, climatic, and cultural factors. The fundamental relationship between agricultural development, and landscape and soil parameters allows for the spatial modeling of agroecolgoical distribution, and coupling of natural and human ecologies. Informed by multiple methodologies and previously developed datasets, we developed four new spatial models depicting the spatial potential of specific Hawaiian agroecological forms. In conjunction with three previously existing spatial models, we assess the distributional patterns of agriculture potential across the archipelago to explore the evolution of agroecology as the islands age - from fresh basalt flows on Hawai'i Island to 5 million year old depleted landscapes on Kauai. The potential of each agroecological system demonstrates a unique response to ecosystem age. We assess patterns of island area, total agricultural potential of each agroecological form, and extrapolations of labor, yield, and surplus associated with agricultural production across the archipelago to further examine the how the environmental potential of agroecological forms may have further manifested in the political ecology of the islands. We quantitatively demonstrate the evolution of agroecology across the archipelago's age gradient, and the relative role of each niche agricultural form. The final results pushes back on the prevailing narrative that suggests the uneven distribution of agroecological potential drove conflict between regions of different ages, and instead suggests a substantial role in agroforestry methods acting to mitigate spatial and temporal differences.