following in the footsteps of our ancestors we are homesteading…malama’ing…tending to this place with our hearts and our hands, gardening & helping this piece of earth be ‘āina momona….a beautiful, abundant & diverse regenerative food & medicine forest…a sanctuary…a resting place…
And right now… Summer is here and it’s mango season!! Kalen planted the mango orchard over 20 years ago and four years ago we topped the trees and inspired by Umi began pruning them. Open center pruning to let the light & breeze in to the center of the trees. And noticeably the trees are so much healthier & mangoes are larger, sweeter & easier to harvest. Plus we strung vanilla on the trees 3 years ago like how Sorrel saw when living in the food forests of Bali and this year was the most abundant with hundreds of flowers blooming…and now we are making our own vanilla extract!
Mango tree
Mangoes
Mangoes
Mango jam in copper pot
Mango jam
Fresh seedy bread from Kilauea bakery w mango jam
Mango macnut scones with mango saffron jam and grass fed butter w Hawaiian salt sprinkle…mmmmmm
Vanilla vines in our mango trees
Vanilla Beans
Chopin vodka vanilla extract