{"id":5,"date":"2006-10-02T18:36:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T04:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:03:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>To make a very long story short&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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. 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 and spent a few years planting out a field of tea. We built a fancy chicken coop, day-old chicks arrived on Valentine&#8217;s Day, 2006, and produced eggs for a few years. I found a way to import organically grown chicken feed, and in 2007-2008 i had the only organically-fed hens on the island.\u00a0 I learned about biochar in 2006 and by 2010 i was producing useful amounts on the farm.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to make the whole operation sustainable (environmentally and economically) became a long, fascinating growth curve, that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010-2018, i had to return to Silicon Valley for employment, but now I&#8217;m back on the farm, still trying to grow food and tea sustainably.<\/p>\n<p>I maintain a detailed notes page on biochar at <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/ag\/notes_biochar.html\">http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/ag\/notes_biochar.html<\/a>, feeding chickens at <a href=\"https:\/\/ahualoa.net\/chickens\/\">https:\/\/ahualoa.net\/chickens\/<\/a> and growing tea in Hawaii at <a title=\"Growing Tea in Hawaii\" href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/tea\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make a very long story short&#8230; 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. I wanted to make more use of the land, and try farming. The first thing i did, in the fall of &#8230;<\/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"],"_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":779,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/779"}],"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}]}}