Mango Barbecue Sauce

When it rains it pours mangoes! A delicious way to use mangoes during the season is to make barbecue sauce. This recipe below is used fresh or can it in a hot water bath. Create this sweet yet savory sauce and use it on pork, chicken or fish.       Mango Barbecue Sauce ingredients: 4 […]

Take a Big Bite Out of Beebread (Pollen in Honey Comb)

One of the most delicious things to come out of a bee hive besides honey is pollen stuffed, white comb beebread.  What a treat! Beebread is actual honey comb with packed cells of pollen and honey. If you’ve never tried it, this is something you should seek out from the many local beekeepers in Hawaii. […]

Luring Butterflies to Your Hawaiian Garden

Plant it and they will come. Butterfly gardening is just that simple. If you plant the host plant of a butterfly, they are likely to show up in your garden. A host plant is a plant that the butterfly larva eat or butterflies lay their eggs on. Nothing adds more magic to a sunny day […]

Edible Greens in Hawaii

I’ve updated this article to include some new greens that particularly easy to grow. Check it out. If you don’t have time to garden–planting seeds, fertilizing, mulching, pulling weeds and watering, this story is for you. There are a number of edible greens in Hawaii that grow easily with little intervention on your part. You […]

Taro (Kalo) Burgers

Here is a delicious way to use taro in your kitchen. This taro burger is crispy, filling and full of flavor. It’s a farm favorite. We grow dryland taro (kalo) in and around our kitchen garden. It is a plant that produces a starchy corm or tuber that must be cooked because it contains high […]