KeepItLocal Recipe: Patacones
A local farmer named Anabella Bruch shared her traditional Patacones Recipe that is made from green horn plantain. Continue Reading →
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Kauai Farmer Feature: Anny Bruch, Baum Farms
Kauai Farmer Feature: Anny Bruch, Baum Farms. Anny is a Kauai Farmer who gives back to the community in many ways. Continue Reading →
Planting, Maintaining & Harvesting Cover Crops: Kaua’i School Garden Network
If your school is worried about keeping up with a garden during the summer, and can’t host regular community activities, consider cover cropping or producing green manure. Cover crops are crops grown to improve soil fertility and benefit future plants while Continue Reading →
4 Ways to Fund Staffing for School Garden Programs
By Diane Sikkens Most of the schools in our network have received a mini-grant and/or donations to start a garden or even attended a training to incorporate a garden-based curriculum, but striving for programmatic sustainability can be a challenge. Typically, Continue Reading →
5 Easy & Tasty Ways to Enjoy Roselle
It’s roselle season and we’re bursting at the seams with it here at the Community Farm! Roselle is such a gorgeous plant, and BONUS – it needs very little human intervention to be grown successfully and sustainably here in the Continue Reading →
Kauai Fresh Lettuce – more than just salad!
Don’t toss your wilting salad mix! Wow, I will never get rid of wilting greens again. I had to question what to do with this massive bag of lettuce I acquired from Kauai Fresh Farms. I ate two days worth of Continue Reading →
Taro Burgers – Kalihiwai Dry Land
If you’ve ever driven through Princeville and over the bridge to Hanalei, you’ve seen the mass fields of wet land taro on Kauai. Fields and fields of Kauai’s valuable commodity and canoe plant, Kalo grows not just in water beds Continue Reading →
[Kauai Fresh] Tomato Sauce
Kauai Fresh Farms is located on Kauai’s North Shore, situated behind our main highway and nestled beneath the Namahana Mountains. Several solar powered greenhouses birth hundreds and hundreds of pounds of hydroponically grown tomatoes, lettuce, kale and cucumbers every week. Continue Reading →
The Birth of a New Blog, & So Much More!
As I write this, Katie Trussell is giving birth to the latest of the Kealoha clan, Bear! We all can’t wait to meet the new little guy, and Katie is handling labor like the boss mom that she is! As Continue Reading →
Orange Ginger Juice
Pulp free. Minimal Pulp. Full. On. PULP. This Orange Ginger juice has all the fiber and nutrients we’re missing out on when we juice our fruit and veggies – unless you have a premium juicer that extracts all the good Continue Reading →