Perhaps you’ve seen the video on You Tube of a woman ranting about chicken’s being the starter animal to having a farm. She says before you know it you’ll want goats so you can have feta on your eggs. She continues, then you’ll want to get a cow to have a glass of fresh milk […]
We started making our own granola cereal to add local ingredients like macadamia nuts, farm honey and coconut. Too many store-bought granola cereals contain GMO oils like Canola or contain refined sugar. This delicious recipe is a great way to use ingredients from the land. We gather our macadamia nuts about twice a year. This […]
Why make peanut brittle when you can rock it with coffee and macadamia nuts? What a great way to celebrate Hawaii by using two ingredients from the aina (land). We have five macadamia or mac nut trees on the farm. It’s funny that I’m mentioning that, because today we actually planted a sixth tree. A […]
Recently we switched from the Langstroth hive beekeeping method to the top bar hive. One of the reasons I like the top bar is that it is more in keeping with a natural bee hive. The natural design is best for their survival by helping them fight off predators. You will get more honey with […]
May 26, 2006 Clearing out GMOs Demonstrators clear modified trees from organic papaya farm by Jason Armstrong, Hawaii Herald Tribune Staff Kapoho- The battle against genetically engineered foods arrived here Thursday when local farmers joined members of Greenpeace International to remove disease-resistant papaya from an organic farm. “This is sort of the heartland for GE […]