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...
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...
The hundreds of seeds I planted Wednesday started sprouting friday night! Arugula was the first, closely followed by Dino Kale, Pak Choy and collards have all popped up to say hello. ...
We’re heading to the farmer’s market tomorrow and today’s tasks were all about harvesting! I had only a couple hours of harvest work on roselles, green onions and pak choy. Aaron was on tree duty: avocados, tangerines, lemons, limes, tangelos, tangerines, cara cara oranges, grapefruit,...