Walk through your bee yard, and see what’s happening. A lot of future problems can be prevented by observing your bee hives daily. You can learn about what’s going on inside the hive without lifting the cover. In any climate a beekeeper can benefit from visual hive observation. If you inspect often, they will get […]
My husband and I started to move back to our farm before the lava on the Big Island subsided. We were in an advisory evacuation zone and the lava was flowing in a predictable path that seemed secure except for some minor spill overs. It was erupting from the most active fissure, number 8 (F8), […]
Living with an active volcano river stretching 8 miles through your town to the ocean is anything but normal. When the fissures started to crack and smoke, they seemed close but comfortably far away from us. When you feel your land is safe, a false sense of relief occurs. Each day, I study the flow […]
One thing I have learned about lava is that it is unpredictable and unforgiving. Even the hurricanes we fled from in Florida are not comparable to lava. When lava comes your way, you can’t hunker down and withstand the storm. It’s totally a save yourself situation. You lose everything you have and your […]
Aloha everyone, just want to update you on Kumu Aina farm 5/16/2018. I am sure you have heard that volcanic eruptions from 19 fissures on the East Rift Zone are going off in Puna, Hawaii. This has been occurring for the past 10 days. The closest one to our farm is number 17. We had […]