Subsistence Farming - Hawaii

lauren and i have been to a linda tellington-jones workshop on kona side. she lives there and also in santa fe. she seems like a horse therapist to me. she is not interested in the recent horse training ideas about humans communicating to horses using horse language, humans being the alpha horse in a pack. […]

if you can imagine, we had an intern on the land who turned out to be a missionary in training here to save the hawaiians from pele. i had some serious conversations with him about the arrogance and destruction caused by the christian missionary. i told him to go after the ice heads and leave […]

sustainable living. what topics are important to address? water systems, power systems, local food sources, , local material structures, waste management, transportation. these seem to be the main ones i addressed.
my recent experience homeschooling Lauren (9th grade) has given me a new perspective. why isn’t education in the top ten list for sustainability? how can […]

things are getting crazy on the island with rising gas prices etc. when you live on an island you feel the changes sooner. no buffer. we actually experience empty shelves at the stores at times! they are not all empty but there might be no organic oats in all of the 3 health food grocery […]

i had a long spell of forgetting that i am living in paradise. i forgot how close there were waves pounding the coast. i thought i life only extended to the dying wili wili pastures.
scott is dropping some big trees as i type this. the pond has 3 happy ducks swimming in it. not much […]

i love the third worldness of this place.

one of my favorite things that i have done in my life was when i left taos (and all the obligations and commitments i had there) to go somewhere with the sole purpose of not making any commitments. i came to hawaii on a sabatical (i called it). and totally enjoyed the freedom of being […]

alas, it has been a very hard couple of months here. we have had unrelenting livestock tragedies. loosing 3 of our dear goats to a painful death (2 of them in our arms, the third died in the middle of the night), 2 serious injuries to our horses (both could have resulted in permanent lameness […]

i had a sort of meltdown, nervous breakdown kind of thing the other day when scott and i were talking about how we are going to spend the sale of the earthship money (am i being dramatic!).
i was at first so excited to look at all the projects that we can get started on and […]

malia (our wounded horse) is out of danger now and is amazingly sound! she even jumped a 4′ pole to escape from her stall twice. if i had those cuts i would be on my back asking for dvd’s and martini’s.
we found her with her wound opened and with a lump of blood and goo […]