Kapahu photos


It has been a relatively slow news week, but just as well as I've been busy. So how about some pictures. I usually don't post this many at one time, but from spending most of the weekend before last at the farm for three days, I had so many to choose from, so I hope you enjoy these. (Please respect my copyright and don't use without asking.)

Makahiku Falls. 180 feet or so. It's been raining a lot lately so the stream has been flowing pretty heavy. This is in 'Ohe'o Gulch just a little ways above the Pools of 'Ohe'o (formerly Seven Sacred Pools), and this is a view from an overlook on the trail where we do our historical/cultural interpretive hike. The farm is just over the hill to the right of the falls, and when it is pumping you can hear it, and actually feel it booming and vibrating the ground, which is at least part of the reason why the farm ili is called Kapahu, "the drum."



Uncle John Lind, project director and modern konohiki, farmer, hunter, fisherman, butcher, kumu, visionary. The lo'i toward the upper left is the one I've been posting close-ups of.



More lo'i, looking back the other way more or less.



Planting huli, the next generation. We had a group of interns who were doing a program with National Tropical Botanical Garden's Kahanu Garden, a sister project here in Hana, come up the farm for a day, and we got a lot of good work done, including burying the weeds in this lo'i and then planting it (the smoother area in the back with leaves showing was planted earlier). There really isn't any other experience like working in the lo'i. It is so healthy and fun, relaxing and a work out, therapeutic and grounding.



And here's some harvest. Kalo & luau for eating, and huli for replanting.



Pua of a Kahiki variety of mai'a, Hawaiian banana. It's a cooking banana (like all Hawaiian cultivars) and is fantastic dried (hat tip to Angela Kepler for the idea to try that).


Posted: Wed - October 19, 2005 at 10:49 PM    
   
 
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