Hello Oahu!
GoFarm Hawai’i, AgPro
This is our temporary plot in Waialua. Each student gets roughly 100 feet by 50 feet of land to practice farming.
GoFarm Hawai’i, AgPro
This is our temporary plot in Waialua. Each student gets roughly 100 feet by 50 feet of land to practice farming.
This past summer has been hot and dry which made growing plants a bit challenging. We decided to wait until the tail end of summer to start planting again. For the upcoming CSA season in late October, we have a few bean varieties which successfully germinated directly from the ground. Stay tuned for more planting…
It has come full circle. This past week, we tore down our plants and tilled our plots over. GoFarm Hawaii AgPro in Waialua is complete and we are graduating on Saturday (11/5). We have also been accepted to UH’s Waimanalo Research Station for AgIncubator where we can stay for up to 3 years to develop…
I am so glad that Hurricane Lester did not hit our island, but he did leave the farm with a few challenges. In anticipation of Lester’s potential wind damage, our GoFarm Hawaii cohort had to clear the fields with any loose objects, which included our pop up tents and wash stations. We will not be…
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Happy New Year! We will begin our incubator period in Waimanalo Research Center starting today. We hope to remain there for three years before we move to our “own” land. In the meantime, stay tuned for more updates. Aloha!
Some of the plants are ready to harvest. Here is a variety of beans called Dragon’s Tongue with varying shades that I harvested so that each plant will keep producing. I hope more plants are ready by next week so that I can harvest and give them to my CSA subscribers.