Seasonal Break, Goals, and Feedback | Recent Harvest | Chameleon Column
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Quick Reminder: Seasonal Break and Feedback
Your feedback is necessary and will help us significantly reduce wasted water, compost, and man power resources, crop loss, and improve the overall experience for those that believe in our mission and enjoy our products.
If you have purchased our products at market and/or participate in our Pick-Up Program, we would greatly appreciate your feedback and participation in these anonymous surveys.
Farming in Hawaii is some of the best in the world with the year-round growing capabilities, but after a continuous year of growing, we need a break. Time to reflect and plan ahead, repair infrastructure, let our bodies heal and allow the soil to rest. We are excited to approach the fall with improvements to our products and processes.
We will not be attending farmer’s market from June 24th to September 30th.
Our first week returning to farmer’s market will be October 7th.
There will be no pick-ups July 21st – September 29th.
Pick-Up Program will resume October 6th.
Please contact us directly if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. Mahalo for your understanding.
Goals
When we resume both market and pick-ups, we aim to have consistent supplies of tomatoes and cucumbers, kai choy cabbages, lettuce, carrots and beets. We also plan to offer more season specific items such as green and yellow zucchini, broccoli, amaranth greens, pie pumpkins, fresh edamame, winter peas, and melons.
Recent Harvest
Sugarloaf, white pineapple. Soft core and sweeter than most store bought varieties.
Loads of sweet, fragrant, edible flowers. These violas make great tea and brighten up salads.
Butterfly pea flower. Drought tolerant, easy to grow on trellis, and full of color. We love adding them to tea!
The pala’ai have been so prolific! It is an incredible blessing to have food security. We harvested over 200 pounds this month!
Identifying the most successful and heat tolerant varieties of greens has been simultaneously challenging and rewarding.
Gold beets and Kai Choy. A new variety of beet and crop that we were pleasantly surprised by. They have become some of our favorite veggies!
Celery root. Wow, this one was a shocker. While cleaning up the celery patch, I decided to cut off these knobby roots from the base of the ribs. I took an educated guess and boiled the peeled root pieces (roughly 3 inches in diameter) until tender. Blending them with the cooking liquid produced a surprisingly delicious soup! Light, refreshing, and somewhat sweet with a mild celery flavor. So good!
Fresh made lacto cheese. Alive and so tasty. Another useful and nutritious byproduct of crafting lactobacillus bacteria. This bacteria is used to suppress harmful pathogens and improve nutrient availability in the soil, assist in compost formation, maintain clean areas for livestock, and can be added to dog, chicken, and people food to help keep us healthy.
Chameleon Column
One of the better photos we’ve captured lately. The weather was warm and slightly overcast. Perfect for a napping chameleon. This guy did not want to be disturbed, so we snapped a quick one and let him get back to resting.
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