Category: Farm Diary

Today I planted another cool tree from Joe, a Junglesop tree (Anonidium mannii) which grows in the jungles of West and Central Africa. In the family…

Today I planted a Tahitian chestnut tree (Inocarpus fagifer) that I got from Joe. This tree has many names in Melanesia and Polynesia – ifi, ihi, i’i,…

Today I planted an unusual relative of soursop and cherimoya called Duguetia peruviana that I got from Joe. This small tree grows in the lower elevation…

Today I planted an Apinia caerulea from Ken and in Australia they just call it “native ginger”. It is popularly grown in home gardens and it is found in…

Today I planted a ndea tree (pronounced n-day-ah) Nauclea xanthoxylon, which could be one of the tastiest fruits native to the wet tropics of the Congo….

Today I planted a few huli in the kalo library. I think this one is the lihilihi molina, but I’m not 100% sure. It’s hard to keep track of everything! But…

Today I planted a blackberry jam fruit that I got from Ken Love. In one of the fruit documentaries he was featured in Ken said, “If you live in Hawaii,…

Today I planted another pandan. This one has a bunch of stem attached to it so my guess is that it will regrow especially in this rainy weather. We did…

Today I planted an abiu tree that I got from Mary. Abiu is one of the first unusual exotic fruits I encountered when I moved to the Big Island. This fruit…

Today I planted a bunch of black ti leaf plants. This is a special one that we were gifted from the Mala’ai many years ago. If I remember correctly, the…