Coffee Macadamia Nut Brittle

Why make peanut brittle when you can rock it with coffee and macadamia nuts? What a great way to celebrate Hawaii by using two ingredients from the aina (land). We have five macadamia or mac nut trees on the farm. It’s funny that I’m mentioning that, because today we actually planted a sixth tree. A […]

Growing and Eating Yuca in Hawaii

Try this experiment and go outside your house into your yard and see if you can find any food that you could eat. Imagine if grocery stores ceased to exist, is there anything in your backyard you could eat? You might be able to cut off those fiddleheads on your Hapu’u fern and eat those […]

Cooking with Breadfruit (Ulu)

If you have a breadfruit or Ulu tree and you haven’t been using the fruit to feed your family, now is the time to learn how to use it and live more sustainably from the land. It’s easy to cook with, is extremely versatile, and delicious. When unripe, you can use it in place of […]

Homemade Ginger Ale

A lot of store-bought beverages contain GMOs, HFCS and artificial ingredients.  If you’re like me, you stand there in the store reading labels trying to figure out if this is something you should be drinking and then wind up getting bottled water or going without. A nice treat, is to make your own soda at […]

Make Fresh Herbal Tea From Your Garden

It’s important to stay hydrated everyday. It’s easy to fall into a beverage routine and not change it even if it’s hot out, or you are working hard and perspiring. With the increasing awareness that store bought beverages can affect our weight, contain GMOs, cause cancer, diabetes, and a myriad of other diseases, along with […]