Other than Farm Blog

This turned out that it was not totally from scrap materials, but finally getting close to finishing the outhouse project. One of our recent farm volunteer said that he was interested in using scrap materials to do some building and claimed his adequacy for building skills so we did an outhouse building project. He designed the building and made extra materials list that we needed to supplement with. he proceeded with his design only to find out later that I had to fix a lot of things. I just need to add a door and it's done, but how do I keep the door light so it doesn't outweigh the entire structure. Black bucket keeps wood chips. It's just a big planting pot so it drains water from rain. Wood chips keep the flies and smell away. White bucket in the back catches rain water for washing hands and other uses. Once the hole fills up this structure can be moved (with 2 people). and some things can be planted there to remove extra nutrients. One common permaculture outhouse ...

We found a wild turkey chick in tea field. One of our farm volunteers is now a foster mother. She is a vegan and don't eat meat so I assume that this bird is not for our thanksgiving turkey. Taka caught 3 wild turkey chicks about a year ago and domesticated them. He fed them and took a good care of the birds for about 3 weeks. These birds can actually fly at the age of 1 month or so and eventually they figured out that they could fly over the fence of their coop that they were in. About 4 feet high. One day Taka sow the turkeys walking in the tea field and immediately caught them again. After a while they took off and never returned. Then he found out that his neighbor across the street adopted the turkey for a while. The birds just walked right up to them. Taka wondered if they knew that the birds were domesticated at that time since they were such friendly wild turkeys. A few weeks later they released the birds, but were they thinking about keeping the turkey for thanksg...

This page is for the farm interns and volunteers who got to spend time at Mauna Kea Tea Farm. I am sure that all participants had different experiences both good and bad since everybody has their own expectations and their unique circumstances. Please post your comments to reflect on your personal benefits and experiences from your stay at MKT farm.   Also, if possible, please include your background and expectations before stay so that future participants can judge adequacy of their responsibility, skill levels and commitment to natural farming while their stay at the Farm. Thank you for helping us improve the Internship Progarm, Taka, Kimberly & Koji