A habitual blogger on many other much more controversial topics, I started this awhile ago for fun, because I like to write but don’t always want to think about difficult things.

In April our family started a backyard garden and chicken coop. We live in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. Now that I am deeply in the organic gardening world, I’ve seen enough blogs and forums to know it’s time to share and create some community, and gain more knowledge.

We live on a ¼ acre in a close, suburban neighborhood in North Kona. Not really ag, to be sure. But for now, we are digging in – quite literally.

Circumstances have convinced us it is time to learn a little more about sustaining ourselves. We do, after all, live in an island in the middle of an ocean. It seems reasonable, and there are a lot of local efforts afoot in this regard, for the same reasoning. So we are gardening, with heirloom and local seeds and edible landscaping. We are newbies but devoted. I also want to learn about preserving food, caring for chickens and various other green endeavors.

Looking forward to meeting you, give a holler if you like.

Aloha

-Keke

Our friends invited us to try a berry from their Miracle Fruit tree.  It’s a small, red fruit that contains a molecule called miraculin, which binds to your taste buds and makes everything else you eat for the next hour or two taste sweet.  What a trip!  The tart lime became like lemonade, and wasabi – well, wasabi was just bland, so the distinct warning is, watch the hot peppers and spice when imbibing this particular miraculous fruit!