Sunday, June 17, 2012

WOW, we are farmers.

The days of hard work - first our "real jobs" that involved sitting in front of a computer for eight hours five days a week and then getting the farm work done - whew, way too much work at our age.  Nevertheless, with the help of our woofers - corn, squash, tomato,  lots of cucumber and zucchini as well as broccoli, beats, carrots, fennel , basil, Thai basal, nice round onions, soy beans and coffee plants  - whew.  What a bountainful place we live.   Linda's flowers are producing - we are selling Tuberose ( and organic vegetables) to a local restaurant  and the Obake anthuriums (Google it) are blooming nicely.  The Hibiscus starts are taking and the Orchid  "Tree" is going.  We dug up two HUGE  Bird of Paradise clumps and planted ~200 keiki's in the pasture.
(Linda has a plan for a flower farm)...........We are feeding the chickens organic vegetables from our organic garden and we soon will have organic eggs that sell for $6.00/carton.  Dang.  As expensive as cigarettes.