Monthly Archives: May 2013

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May 10, 2013

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Collecting Wood Ear (Pepeiao) Mushrooms in Hawaii

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 […]

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May 5, 2013

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Hand Pollinating Atemoya Fruit Trees

Get out your paintbrushes because it’s May and now is the time to start hand pollinating atemoya trees. We have about 60 trees on the farm but if you’ve got just one or two, you can enhance fruit-setting by learning how to pollinate them yourself. The nitidulid beetle, which is the insect pollinator, can be […]