Category: Farm Diary

This evening I planted a cacao tree in the moon light. We may have about 180 trees in the ground now with only 30 or so trees fully producing. I keep…

Today I did a little landscaping work in the food forest understory by moving around, dividing and planting out bromeliads. Earlier this year I collected…

Today I planted another plantain, but on the Kona side at Ken Love’s tropical fruit orchard. This is the first time I planted something off our farm this…

Today I planted another popoulu plantain. These things just keep giving and giving. We recently learned how to make authentic Puerto Rican style tostones…

TREE FIDDY! Today I planted a velvet apple tree, Diospyros blancoi that I got from Joe. Velvet apple is a relative of ebony and persimmons from the…

Today I planted a nutmeg tree that I got from Dan at Hamakua Chocolate. He kindly dug out some keiki trees from under his tree for me several months ago….

Today I planted a cacao tree as the sun was going down. It was a beautiful day today and the cacao beans are drying up nicely. I got a bunch of marang…

Today I planted a kola nut tree, a rather large one that I got from Joe. This tree can grow to about 60 feet tall with low spreading branches. In 1886 an…

Today I planted another taro variety called Ula‘ula Kūmū in the kalo library. Like the awa variety Moi, this kalo is named after a fish too, a tasty red…

I set up my first chocolate ‘booth’ today at Mike and Jackie’s open farm event. I didn’t bring any chocolate to sell but I was able to see most of the…