We’re loving our location atop Moloa’a valley in the northeast corner of Kauai. The closest small town lights are 6 miles away and the stars are BRILLIANT every night. Since last Monday’s winter solstice was also the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, we celebrated with...
We hopped the bus down to a new town to explore - the biggest city on the island -- Kapaa! We spent the day roaming its southern beaches and seeking out food finds! We started off with this hole-in-the-wall Hawaiian BBQ place next to the grocery...
We’ve had some really good breakfasts using farm spoils! I quickly realized I love micro greens on just about anything — but adding them atop a fried egg is just 🤤...
We were gifted two bags of these magical fruits by our awesome farmer's market neighbor Jenny. I've never had either! Both are related to the lychee, grow on trees, and are peeled to reveal a small round fruit (like a peeled grape) with a pit....
Sunday we had use of the farm SUV (we've been deemed trustworthy & hard enough workers to earn the use of the hosts' car!)...
We've been told these bananas will RUIN all other Chiquita varieties for you -- Hawaiian Apple Bananas are a little sweeter and smaller and we finally got to try them today! And the other exciting thing is that we have bunches on the farm that...
Today was another session of thinning seed trays which gave us a healthy amount of micro greens to top our salads! We have a ton of green leaf lettuce in the kitchen garden so we've been making giant salads with avocado, medium boiled eggs, sunflower...
We finally dove into some ulu cooking this weekend! It was so much easier than we thought and all meals turned out super yummy. Basic prep rules are to cut out the core and peel it, then it can be cut up like a potato....
We had a potluck style thanksgiving with our fellow volunteer, Kristin and our hosts Jiva and Myrica. Myrica made a traditional stuffing, subbing breadfruit for bread, a seed bread-loaf, which was sort of like meatloaf with lots of savory flavors and topped with a tangy...
We've made it through a full week basically! The downtime was much appreciated yesterday and we were ready for our full morning today. We started with an hour long meeting with Jiva, Myrica (Jiva's partner), Kristin (fellow volunteer), Aaron, and myself. First up on all...