Garlic Though most of the gardens are dormant, there is plenty to do around the property’s numerous greenhouses and Muna’s apothecary. We gathered about 5 gallons worth of dried garlic that was harvested from the previous seasons to process: The garlic was sorted to leave only...
Monday February 21 One of the first jobs Aaron and I jumped at the chance to take on was chicken care. We L O V E farm fresh eggs and our cabin is closest to the chicken coop - so a natural job for us! We...
Friday Dec 24 - Jan 9 We spent the Christmas and New Year's holidays in Denver, thankfully getting to see some of my visiting family on Christmas Day -- and un-thankfully catching COVID somehow a few days later. We did our due diligence of tracing, but...
Wednesday, Apr 21st Waking up in a king size bed and getting to walk 10 glorious indoor carpeted steps to the bathroom was a perfect way to start our last day on Kaua'i. We slept in till after 9:00a and I began prepping breakfast. When we'd...
The beginning of April brought a lot of changes to the farm! While Aaron and I had our exit date of April 8th set about 6 weeks prior, a three of our fellow volunteers ended up making arrangements to leave the farm at a similar...
We’re experiencing the wettest, coldest stretch of weather on Kaua’i’s north shore since arriving. And that’s a serious statement after our first two weeks here in November where we had daily downpours for our first two weeks on island.Last week was super drizzly and chilly...
It’s not all sunshine and beaches here — this week has been particularly rainy! Most times the rain is short burst but since last night we’ve had several huge downpours that last 20 min or more. We had 4” of rain Tuesday night alone, not...
We're making good use of having a rental car! We went to nearby Mola'a beach on Tuesday for a bit of lap swimming and dodging rain beneath the ironwoods. We kept the trip short so we could go check out Kilauea Lighthouse (only open Thurs...
Amazingly, we landed on a farm that not only ecompasses feeding volunteers, but also follows a "farmily first" harvest policy. In that vein, one of my duties here at Olana has been helping / orchestrating the kitchen garden. It goes hand in hand with my...
Last weekend we finally got around to a stroll through the farm grounds to take photos! Olana Farm is a 3-acre piece of land about 3 miles east of Kilauea, on Kauai. Tim O'Connor (Jiva) bought the land 20 years ago: an empty pasture on...