Homesteading in Hawaii

I grow mamaki in the semi shade. The plant seems to prefer living along the margins of a woods. While it also grows ok in full sun, the semi...

Red Swan .... A variety of fresh snap beans that I find is easy to grow. And the fact that the pods are reddish in color, makes the, very ea...

Life is such that I don't have the extra time to devote to blogging. I have choices to be made and priorities to set. I've put blogg...

Adam wanted to show off his banana harvest. Today he harvested this bunch of Williams bananas. Not the best eating banana (they are a commer...

Life is different this year. The 4th is nothing like last year. And unlike parts of the mainland where they are heading to the beaches and l...

Just recently I was introduced to a papaya that is the tastiest, sweetest one I've tasted. I thought I've had some good ones in the ...

On Facebook I see a lot of photos of people's greenhouse. Here in Hawaii, they are often actually high tunnels as opposed to the greenho...