Having durian tropical fruit trees has been quite a trip. I have often been astonished at the behavior of what has come to be called a “durian addict.” If you can imagine someone actually being addicted to fruit. Over the years, we have had many encounters with durian addicts. They would rip a durian apart […]
A favorite treat to make on our farm is goat’s milk ice cream made with custard and the Donvier. The creaminess of goat milk makes it a delicious choice. The butterfat content of goat’s milk is 4.2%. It is naturally homogenized so the cream does not rise up to the top like cow’s milk which […]
What an amazing fruit lilikoi is and it’s so easy to grow in Hawaii. A good choice to grow the perennial vine is on a non-fruit bearing tree. Ours grows on a gliricidia or Jamaican quick stick. The extremely beautiful flowers attract carpenter bees as pollinators and the gulf fritillary butterfly lays its eggs on […]
Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, things change. One thing that hasn’t changed is the lava flow isn’t stopping. It’s just not going where everyone thought it was heading. Lava is so strange: unstoppable, furiously hot, creeping, burping magma, eating up vegetation, munching homes; transfer stations, graves and anything and everything […]
As predicted the lava started moving again. I saw some footage that described how pāhoehoe and ʻaʻā lava move, none of which made me feel any better though I realize it was not intended to. The June 27th flow is a pāhoehoe flow and the worse thing about that kind of lava is that it moves slow […]