Hawaii is a truly magical place, and our little piece of paradise here at Paradise Meadows is a beautiful tropical rainforest. But there is one thing that tropical rainforests like ours have too much of. Bugs. We are, however, blessed with a totally organic, sustainable method of pest control in the form of tiny lizards called geckos.
Looking back through some of our old farm pictures reminded us that we dragged our 1940-something red Farmall tractor up onto the rock wall at the entrance to the farm SEVEN YEARS ago! No, we can’t believe it either. The entire event took several hours of pushing, pulling, figuring, refiguring — and several minutes of […]
When I first got to Hawaii this past May, I of course googled shaka because Hawaii. Almost all of the photos I saw were pretty much the same, very simple. But there’s an important bit that wasn’t obvious to me, and that what those images show is what you are looking at your […]
Feral or wild pigs have a long history in Hawaii, and we’ve written about them here on our farm before (Pigs in Paradise). We have traps set up in the fields where they do the most destruction to our fields, and yesterday caught a bunch of the cutest piglets! It’s hard to remind myself exactly how […]
The Hawaiian islands have a rich and unique culture, and there are several ancient legends that you’ll want to be aware of, and respectful of, when you visit. The Menehune According to myth, the Menehune were people who lived on the Hawaiian islands before the Polynesians. They are tiny people (described as being anywhere from 6 […]
Visitors to Paradise Meadows Orchard & Bee Farm, home of Hawaii’s Local Buzz, often ask us if we have wild pigs in Hawaii. Since the answer to that question is an emphatic yes, we thought it might interest some of our readers to know more about the “wild pig problem” we have here in paradise. […]