To make a very long story short…<\/p>\n
From 2005 to 2010, i moved back to a house i own on 2.3 acres, a house that i grew up in, surrounded by a wonderful community. My parents, Jim and Ruthie Bernaert, live there. They are Anusara yoga teachers<\/a>, and have been gardening organic vegetables for decades. While fresh vegetables are great, i wanted to make more use of the land, and try farming. The first thing i did, in the fall of 2005, was attend a Hawaii County workshop on growing and processing Tea. I joined the Hawaii Tea Society<\/a> and got a few plants. The next thing our family did was build a fancy chicken coop, and raise free-range chickens. They arrived as day-old chicks on Valentine’s Day, 2006, and started to produce eggs in July. In August, i finally found a way to import organically grown chicken feed, and in 2007-2008 i had the only organically-fed hens on the island.<\/p>\n Trying to make the whole operation sustainable became a long, fascinating growth curve, that continues to this day.<\/p>\n In 2010, i had to return to Silicon Valley for employment, but i still visit the farm as often as possible and continue to post my notes and news about it here on this blog.<\/p>\n I maintain a detailed notes page on biochar at http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/ag\/notes_biochar.html<\/a> and growing tea in Hawaii at http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/tea\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To make a very long story short… From 2005 to 2010, i moved back to a house i own on 2.3 acres, a house that i grew up in, surrounded by a wonderful community. My parents, Jim and Ruthie Bernaert, live there. They are Anusara yoga teachers, and have been gardening organic vegetables for decades. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}