{"id":119,"date":"2009-07-16T22:43:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:05:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:05:50","slug":"farm-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2009\/07\/farm-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many bits of unrelated news this week:<\/p>\n

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  1. To deal with the pig attacks, we added a strand of barbed wire at ground level running all the way around the garden fences.\u00a0 We also got a trap from neighbors, and the first night we caught a big mama pig:
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    \nShe managed to escape, but since then we’ve caught three smaller pigs.\u00a0 They go to a neighbor who, i believe, fattens them up for eating.<\/li>\n
  2. Two more biochar tests area in the ground, this time using IMOs as well as char.\u00a0 Crops: popcorn and sweet potatoes.\u00a0 Posted to the hawaii-biochar<\/a> group.
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  3. The HFU<\/a> Potluck-Seed Exchange in Honoka’a last Friday was excellent, great turnout, tons of food, interesting seeds.
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    \nIf you missed it, the next one is August 14.<\/li>\n
  4. I had a horrible fever that raged for 2 days, nausea, delirium, then a strange red patch on my leg. At the ER on Sunday, they said it’s a staph infection, put me on antibiotics and bed rest.\u00a0 Sad to say, this mean little to no farm work for a week or more.<\/li>\n
  5. In case you don’t already have Scott of Evening Rain Farm in your blog reader, be sure to read his posts Second Update on Our Food Experiment <\/a>and Maintaining Food Security in Hawaii<\/a>. Key insights into what food sustainability means here.<\/li>\n
  6. The barrel tax was defeated today<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a little depressing, a sign that the top-down powers that be can’t make even a little step in the right direction.\u00a0 As it says, “A bill to fund food and renewable energy projects is left to die.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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