The Flavor Farm · Hāmākua Coast, Hawaiʻi

Wet green forest along the coast

Stories

What is happening on the ground, written down as it happens.

Taking Down The Third House

March

Taking Down The Third House

Twenty-two thousand square feet of steel and fiberglass, most of it going somewhere useful. What surprised us was the ground underneath.

The First Hundred Trees

February

The First Hundred Trees

Planted by a group of eleven over four mornings, watered by afternoon rain that arrived exactly on schedule.

Picking Before The Rain

September

Picking Before The Rain

A harvest week that ran two days early. Everyone was tired, nobody minded, and the drying racks were full by Thursday.

The Table We Set For Neighbours

July

The Table We Set For Neighbours

A community week: surplus produce, a long lunch, and a lot of children learning what a mango tree actually looks like.

An old agricultural structure on the property

Ongoing

From Structure To Soil

The property was an industrial orchid operation: six deteriorated houses of roughly 22,000 square feet each. Their removal and reuse is a multi-year project, and members are part of it.