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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s hard not to become a lava addict when lava is going to cover your town and is going to change your life in the moment. I wait each day for the new flow maps and the civil defense message telling me how fast it’s moving, how wide it is, its current location and its […]
When we first moved to Hawaii and met our neighbors, it wasn’t, “Hi, what’s your name?”, it was more, “Hi, what is your diet?” Diet or what one ate was more important than your name. We met all sorts of people with all sorts of diets–primal, raw, vegan, fruitarian, instinctive, etc. Whole communities were based […]