Homesteading in Hawaii

Hey, anybody notice this was the first Saturday in May? Hurrah, it's worldwide naked gardening day! This morning started out beautif...

Ok, I need to force myself back in the habit of blogging. First it was the farmers market that kept me away, simply because I was devoting a...

Guess what just came out of the woods. I had no idea that a hen has been sitting on a clutch of eggs. Looks like she has 6 chicks. ...

It's been a miserable week. Cold. Wet. Gloomy. The downside of creating soil on this place is that it's now muddy! When it was mostl...

This year is much like past years around here. Half the folks bearing smirky grins ask me if I'm shooting a feral turkey for dinner. The...

Just a heads up. The next 3 days are jam packed with things to do. So I won't be blogging, although I'll still be alive. One of thos...

All is well. At least I think do. No disasters have announced their presence to date. I've just been busy and haven't had time nor d...

Here's a weird one.......a triple fused banana. View from one side.  It's not uncommon to have two bananas fused together....

Here's something different to feast your eyes on............... Work was becoming far too serious, so it was time to lighten up...

I'd like to take the time to acknowledge some good friends who have sent me friendship gifts. Yeah, I'm an old sentimental fuddy-dud...

First of all, I'm alive and well. Things around here are ok. I've been too occupied to blog. In fact, I've been too occupied to ...

"F" asked to see examples of stacking functions on my farm. So, how do I take interesting photos of this? A pipinola vine growing ...

Donkey pulled a fast one on me. But with some McGyver-like thinking, I avoided disaster and saved the day.  For the past many months, D...

Hey, ya thought I would forget, eh? Heck, I don't need much of an excuse to get naked. And gardening naked is like getting two birds wit...

I've officially declared myself "well & fit". So it's back to work, the kind of work I enjoy. I get no pleasure in sit...

Being sick when you're the only farmer on the place is a bummer. But happily I don't have any pressing need to be getting something ...

Sick is something I seldom do. But today I'm sick. Fever. No appetite. Cough. Chest mucous. Mental fog. Want to sleep.  So what happens ...

This has totally nothing to do about homesteading, but I just wanted to let other Hawaiian car owners know. Just by dumb bad luck, I end...

I haven't been posting anything lately because basically I haven't been doing anything new. The homestead project is gradually trans...

When you grow enough of something, you're bound to discover some of Mother Nature's mistakes. Here's some funny oranges.......  ...