Easily the best thing we’ve been gotten to experience so far at the farm: harvesting honey from the 4 bee hives kept on the farm. Wednesday late morning we donned the bee suits, sturdy shoes / boots & gloves late morning while the majority of the...
Friday was a big work day for us. I tackled a couple different area of weeding and planted a new mix of lettuce seeds in the kitchen garden for testing. Aaron donned the bee suit and helped Jiva place a new frame for the hives to...
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...
A big part of my farm tasks is overseeing the sprout house. It's a small hoop shelter containing all planted seed trays until they are big enough to be transplanted to the ground. Jiva assigned this to me partially because I'm also the one planting...
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! ...
Well the rain continues - heavy and frequent. Tuesday morning was a downpour, thwarting most of the farm tasks for the day. Aaron was able to put in some hours weed whacking around the farm, while I primarily took the day off and caught up...
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...
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...