Tag: Food Forest Journal

Today I planted another cacao tree. The farm is looking on point right now, and we decided to fire up the grill to celebrate!

Today I planted a cacao tree. I only have some of the ‘not so great looking, but should be planted cacao trees’ left in the nursery. I’m sure they will…

Today I planted a large ‘cutting’ of a moringa tree. In Hawaii we call it kalamungay or marunggay and it’s an essential tree for Filipino cuisine. Just…

Today I planted two Wild jack trees (Artocarpus hirsutus) that I got from Joe Hewitt. It’s an Artocarpus so it’s related to breadfruit and jackfruit. In…

Today I planted a giant lilikoi that I got as a cutting from Adam and Katie’s couple months ago. I planted it to climb up a neneleau tree that canopies…

Today I managed to find one more spot to plant a seedling durian tree. Seedling durians can take 10 years or more to start producing. The quality of the…

Today I planted the fourth and final Borojo tree. Last night I had a chance to ask Joao’s family (real Brazilians!) about these strange South American…

Today I planted another Borojo tree. I’m still pretty stoked about the winnower I set up today. I was invited to Olelo pa’a’s husband Joao’s 50th…

Today I planted a snake fruit aka salak which is an extremely thorny short stemmed palm from Java and Sumatra. It thrives in the shade of the forest in…

Today I up-potted the pomegranate sprouts that I sowed on day 75 and also some camucamu seedlings I sprouted over a year ago. To make some space in the…