Homesteading in Hawaii

.For the past three weeks it's been wet or raining most days. Great for the soil and building ground water reserves, but not much fun fo...

My little experiment on eliminating the lawn lead to the creation of a couple new small gardens. It's now been almost five weeks. So wha...

Around my neck of the woods, I am almost relieved to see the word "green" not so prominent in the news.  But, oh but, I'm sta...

Moving to the tropics, I quickly learned that insects are a year around fact of life. And keeping them totally out of the house is next to i...

The buzzwords post generated lots of email with people asking me to define each one. Well, in my experience there isn't just one definit...

I know of many small family and small farmers who are loathe to leave their farms or take a break. Why? I hear various reasons. And if you...

I'm taking two days off, heading to Honolulu to get my annual "big city" fix. Thus today (gosh, why didn't I realize that...