When we first came to Hawaii, there was not one bamboo plant growing on our 9 acres. How was I going to build a tiki hut? What was here, was a small trailer; for maybe hauling sheep or goats. I saw a posting at the community mailboxes for someone who wanted a trailer and I […]
On our farm we try and obtain food from the land as much as possible. Most of our dishes are more than 50% to 75% from the land with usually only one or two ingredients that are not grown in Hawaii. I hope to increase the food we grow and get locally each day. This […]
The Pineapple Industry has long been making juice from pineapple by-products like shells, cores and ends. At home, we can also stop discarding these pineapple treasures and make a delicious hot or cold beverage. In the early days of pineapple processing they used to haul these bits out to sea and they often came back […]
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 […]
On December 6th, 2012, I got my first top bar bee hive. It is now July 6th, 2013, and I now have six bee hives: two Langstroths and four top bar hives. I really didn’t plan to expand so quickly but when bees started swarming, the farm took action. I had to name my hives […]