Category: Farm Diary

Today I went over to my neighbors Mike and Jackie’s to press some fresh cane juice. Our other neighbor Kumar said that today is the start of the Pongal in…

I planted eight coffee trees. I love coffee by the way… I think we need a minimum of 20 trees to grow our annual household coffee supply. I planted…

Harvested 3 bunches of bananas of three types: Namwah, Apple, and Williams. I planted a Cempedak tree that I traded with Blake. It’s in the Artocarpus…

Planted another durian tree. This might be the first time I planted a tree at night. Mission complete.

I planted several gliricidia trees today and all it really involves is sticking a big piece of an older branch into the ground and that’s it! My friends…

Today I potted/planted a few bromeliads that my friend Karl shared with me. I also found this strange looking pineapple, also a Bromeliaceae. Not exactly…

Today I planted an Ohia tree that my friend Tim sprouted from seed 3 years ago. It completely outgrew it’s little pot and red aerial roots were hanging…

I planted a seedling durian tree. Not sure what kine but I bet it was one of the good ones. The golden luster of the new growth is majestic and in every…

Some strong winds last week knocked down our 7 year old mamaki bush. Julia brought home a lemon verbena today so we decided to give it the mamaki’s old…

As the sun was going down today I rushed outside in a panic to plant something. It started to rain too so in a hurry I decided to plant a Hawaiian…