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 […]
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 […]
I was the mailbox manager for our small, agricultural community in Puna, Hawaii. I took the volunteer position because no one else wanted it and it would be easy with only 63 mailboxes, mostly rented. What I thought would be fun and a great way to meet new neighbors quickly turned me into a gate-locking […]
My husband and I have shared a kitchen with work traders for 13 years. Inevitably, I’ve seen it all. Sometimes, after just meeting them, I can predict the future behavior of a new work trader. As life has a way of telling you, you haven’t seen it all, and you don’t know it all, who […]
Loofah (luffa), the same ones used as bath scrubbing sponges, can grow in Hawaii and be eaten as a vegetable. It is a tropical, subtropical vine related to the cucumber. It is an attractive vine that needs to be trellised or grown on a fence. It grows 3-4″ yellow male and female flowers. The male […]