We’ve just made a pretty big update to our website which should help make things easier to read. We’ve also added a Facebook page here if you’d like to be a fan. With this new website you should see many more content updates along with a slew of new photos. Please leave a comment below [...]
Continue reading...Scott discusses easy to grow alternatives to some of our more conventional foods. What they are, how they grow and their nutritional value. Just the other day, while I was eating my supper in one of my “doom and gloom” modes, it occurred to me that I have no idea what sort of a safety [...]
Continue reading...Well, it’s been three years since we have written about how our food experiment is progressing at Evening Rain Farm. In these years, we have learned a bunch, and planted many more varieties of plants. We have gone way beyond what we need to meet our basic needs into an exploration of nearly every tropical [...]
Continue reading...These are the blogs that I frequent. The first three are filled with a blend of opinion, wisdom, proposals, perspectives. The fourth is a daily updated series of news links. http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/ http://www.kunstler.com/blog/ http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html – Scott
Continue reading...Q: Will the commercial ‘factory farm’ breed of egg layers fare well in a free range environment? A: The White Leghorns: I did a brief bit of research on them several years ago, and was inspired enough to buy a dozen day-old chicks for our free range flock. They are good layers, industrious, good foragers, [...]
Continue reading...Q: How much land would a family of four need? Any wildly ranging estimates and/or completely blind guesses would be greatly appreciated. A: In a lower Puna environment,which is where I live on the Big Island, a family can grow all their own food in a permaculture style orchard on a 3 acre parcel with [...]
Continue reading...Q: I was thinking about you guys again, as my life becomes so unpleasant here, as I contemplate whether I could ever actually live a simple sustainable life, as you all do. A: Firstly, I’m sorry you are unhappy with your life. I, too, spent over ten years feeling sad, scared, hopeless, and disconnected with [...]
Continue reading...INFRASTRUCTURE Pond House (new ferro cement building w/barrel vault roof- our main living space) make form for plastering the gable edge dig footings for reflecting pond/catchment dig footings for entry pour last (3rd) layer of concrete on the barrel vaults and apply water proofing plaster/burnish interior and exterior surfaces continue building rock retaining wall between [...]
Continue reading...We live in an unusual tropical environment (near Kapoho, on the Big Island of hawaii) where growing our own food is enjoyable. Sustainable food production is different in Hawaii than in most of the mainland United States. In many parts of the world, growing all of one’s food without the use of machinery for farming [...]
Continue reading...I was talking with my wife, Karin the other day about how I feel about our farm and the world situation, and she said,”We need to revise our mission statement. We’re not telling the truth about why we’re doing this project”. I’ll tell you: I used to have lots of idealistic energy about teaching people [...]
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