Tomorrow, weather permitting, we will start our wild beehive removals. I’m terribly excited and have been preparing for 1-1/2 weeks. My prep work has been gathering items I think I’ll need during the four-hive extraction. The two items that did not come in the mail, are the two items I needed the most–two new bee […]
On the blog, I have decided to chronicle our progress from beginning to end in the removal of four wild bee hives at an old Hawaiian hale. These bees need to be removed because the daughter of the previous owner is planning for the hale to be demolished. Her and her husband plan to build […]
Being a farm that engages in work trading, I find a lot of people who apply here want to learn how to grow their own food. I see many replies to our application saying that they really want to know where their food is coming from, how it’s grown organically, and to gain a relationship […]
I have always been interested in mushrooms. I often go on scouting missions in the jungle or areas around my farm, on the eastern side of the Big Island. There are a few edible mushrooms in Hawaii and I have been only able to find a few of them. One which is most plentiful is called […]
For years I tried to grow eggplant with little to no success. I’ve always been good at growing things, my thumb is green! Eggplants eluded me, but like any stubborn farmer, I didn’t give up too easily. I expressed my eggplant growing woes to my friend Ann Kobsa and she would give me eggplants and […]