Subsistence Farming - Hawaii

we have some swell interns (3 women) AND we still miss you.
our pond is slowly filling up. its filling up with bufo toad eggs faster than water.
we have 2 ducks getting big enough to live in the pond.
we have 2 pregnant goats (muriel and abigail) and we lost 3 goats a few weeks ago to […]

our nvc teacher’s intention with our class was to eventually let us become a teacher-less group. we are using the nvc workbook diane used and we take turns teaching. however, what is really exciting for me has been listening to nvc tapes and dvd’s. i just bought some of the more advanced materials and am […]

snippets from emails i sent to my father during lauren’s first year. he saved them and recently sent them to me. i read them to lauren and her freinds at her birthday party. i was a bit shocked in reading them at how “regular” i used to be. going to the mall shopping, taking her […]

we lost 3 goats to some kind of poison last night and this morning. what a trauma being with them, not knowing what was wrong, not knowing how to help, not knowing whether they would live, not knowing how to take the suffering away. It has been a sad day for us, digging graves. Still […]