Homesteading in Hawaii

I met "F" in town at the coffee truck today and she asked if I was getting lots of rain where I am. Rain? Gosh, do I have rain? Yo...

Hawaii just had a hurricane pass south of the islands -- Hurricane Erick. With all the storm warnings, I did indeed take a few precautions. ...

Walking about the farm this morning I couldn't help but notice that's there a lot more new moss growing around. I already had lichen...

It was a cold 49° in my driveway this morning. (52° in my bedroom.)  It's thanksgiving day in my house this morning.......I'm ever s...

People hoping to try homesteading to one degree or another often ask me how many days a week I work at it. That's tough to say, because ...

Here's the rain data I collected for the farm this year. And I'm posting some of the previous years' data for comparison purpose...

It's yet again been wet recently. How does that affect this homestead?  ... The grass has become too wet to effectively run the lawnmowe...

The hurricane is moving away from Hawaii. It's made its predicted turn, actually sooner than expected. That's good news for the othe...

Rain. Rain. Rain. That's it, folks.  The hurricane has turned out to be a long extended rain storm for my location. Over 6 inches of rai...

We are fine. It's 8 pm and we've had another 2 inches of rain since 7 am. That's not bad at all. It has been raining off and on ...

I'm still here. We're fine.  The hurricane's travel has slowed down, so it looks like we are in for rain for the next several da...

The day was spent getting ready for the hurricane. I'm not sure if the farm will see strong winds, but I'm anticipating heavy rain. ...

The entire State of Hawaii is due to be affected by the latest hurricane coming our way. Hurricane Lane. It's due to pass south of the i...

Snow in August in Hawaii. Yup.  These photos came from the webcams atop Mauna Kea..... The snow wasn't your fluffy type, but more like s...

I know that some of my mainland friends were curious about whether or not I was affected by Hector. As of 7:45 pm, the answer is basically ...

All my good intentions of mowing several trashcanfuls of grass clippings and mulching the taro and potato patches have flown the coop. It wa...

The rain started in January. Since then there have been very few days that the farm hasn't been wet. Although a day may go by with no ad...

"J" asked......Does the sun shine very much in the winter there?  Weather here in Hawaii is quite a different experience that I ev...

Rain for February --  9.39 inches This past month has been wet, real wet. There were only 6 days when the farm didn't see rain of some a...

Bring on the tradewinds.....I love 'em. But these past few days it's tradewinds on steroids! Blustery strong winds 24 hours a day. I...