tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351299832598163605.post1469067715568043126..comments2024-03-27T15:54:10.505-07:00Comments on Homesteading in Hawaii: Some MisconceptionsSu Bahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125127467859054156noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351299832598163605.post-71915594028996450922018-08-03T04:06:36.457-07:002018-08-03T04:06:36.457-07:00On growing your own food: I lived in Oceanview Est...On growing your own food: I lived in Oceanview Estates for 3 months in '82. I scavaged lots of food and could have eaten for free if I had a frig to store. I was told 90% was imported. I thought it was ignorance/laziness that prevented people from growing because I found food growing everywhere in the wild. If I were eating meat I could have taken wild pig. A few examples: In the jungle on an abondoned coffee plantation I found a 150lb stalk of bananas. Driving by a closed church on 2 acres in a suburb I saw a large avacado tree with about 100 fruit on the ground. I asked some locals about it and no one had noticed or cared. I pick up about 2 dozen and lamented I didn't know where to take the rest. I found wild strawberry guava growing in K'au along the road in plain sight and picked a gallon. I picked up a dozen coconuts at the park. I found macs. I met the owner of an organge grove at South Point who said I could have all I could carry because he couldn't sell them. I saw a forest of wild guava, coffee growing wild along the road. I bought my favorite green at 80% off super market price, sugar snap peas, from an old German who had a large garden right off the road near Oceanview. His "cash drawer" was a cigar box left unattended with prices posted, a scale, and "you pick-em, pay & go". O.V. had a pop. of 500 but it was difficult to get a phone (monopoly). I waited 2 months and finally moved back the mainland where I had my business. voluntaryisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04241590374328028776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351299832598163605.post-48246102889489457702018-07-10T03:03:36.904-07:002018-07-10T03:03:36.904-07:00Let's see, how do I put this? I know many folk...Let's see, how do I put this? I know many folks are ignorant of the way the real world is, but those are some of the dumbest statements I've heard in a long time. Especially about livestock. I'm not being critical of these folks, just shocked and dismayed for them. Our educational system ought to be ashamed of itself. Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02435811789823712254noreply@blogger.com