Papaya trees! I love their bi-colored, funky shaped leaves. We harvested a ripe papaya about 2 weeks into living here! Was truly delicious!!!!! [gallery columns="2" size="full" link="file" ids="360,359"]...
These webs are EVERYWHERE and often in pathways but this guy has since kept his web neatly about our head-height so we've let him stay near our cabin door. Not harmful to humans, but super cool looking! Less than 1" big but really fast web weavers! ...
Friendly harmless (to humans) garden spider variety! These get HUGE, roughly 2-3" in size, with giant webs up to 5-6 FEET wide. Can you spot the web at the top of the coconut tree?! ...
Kaua'i is full of wild chickens. There's an almost endless background noise of roosters crowing. Here at the farm, if any wild chickens get too comfortable, they are humanely trapped and released a few miles away to keep them from interfering with plants (usually they...
We had our first day off Sunday! Slept in a little, but still up to feed the chickens and water the sprout house at 7:30, but after that we were free to roam! I wanted to trek up to a neighboring town, Hanalei, to find a...
We were up and on call at 6am Saturday to finish harvesting & market prep. After loading up the farm pickup and Jiva's Rav, we were off by 8a to the Kilauea Farmer's Market, the largest farmer's market on the island. We set up our stall...
After being waterlogged most of yesterday, we were very excited to see blue sky this morning. As we began prepping our breakfast at 7:30, a beautiful double rainbow appeared arching over the entire west side of the farm. For the past 3 days, if it...