No more WWOOFERs!

We're done with WWOOFing....at least for now.

We survived two WWOOFER visits, not without considerable damage, mostly emotional. What are the positives, and what did we learn?

Hmmmmm...

We did get the downstairs area cleared out, fixed up and inhabitable. There is a Hawaiian couple living there now, in exchange for yard work and care taking. We added an outdoor sink, refrigerator,  Coleman stove,  toaster oven and microwave. We were motivated by the WWOOFER program, so that was good.

We found out that people who have not lived on the Big Island, or are not local, do not really understand the Hawaiian land. What is valuable, what is not. The way of life in the country here. It took us awhile to get it. But we were patient and open-minded. And we got it. Don't judge people by their dress; don't judge a house by its driveway; chickens don't care if their coop is painted.

Our farm is healing, with love and aloha.

We have 80 chickens in the layer flock at the moment; 30 meat chicks on order and about 10 roasters (4 - 6 lb) in the freezer. We get about 20 eggs a day (12 of the flock are roosters and 20 are juveniles, too young to lay), and sell out weekly.  We need to butcher roosters, but they are all so pretty... Want to buy any?

We finally have a dog poop worm box going! Took a few tries, but with our tenants' two dogs, that makes 6 on the property, and tons of poop. Evidently, it's strong, so the worms want a high ratio of paper to poop.

Since Jeana moved in, we have lost many of our weeds. The yard is looking great. We are making dirt in one of our raised beds with all the chicken poop and worm compost. And piling up debris and papaya waste along one side of the yard for the papaya trees. Someday we may not have to travel to Kona to get our papaya! And Kui has been cleaning out the chicken pens - the chickens are happy and the dirt pile grows!

I'll keep you posted!