We shared our insights on the Garden Show with Paul Massey on KKCR (www.KKCR.org).

You can listen to the interview below (55 mins). Please choose the quality according to your Internet speed.

If you still experience stuttering audio even with the smaller size version, press on the pause button and wait until the progress bar indicates that the file has completely downloaded onto your computer, as seen in this image then press the triangular play button. Playback should be fluent now. If still not, try another browser or another computer.

You can also download the interview to your computer (right click, save as – 21MB mp3).

Akamai Backyard is garden of ‘eating’

Home school project teaches sustainability

It’s like the garden of Eden on steroids.

Taro, bananas, sugar cane. Mango, papaya, sweet potatoes. Eggplant, bitter melon, squash. Beets, asparagus, pigeon peas, and tomatoes. Dozens of herbs, native Hawaiian medicinal plants, even a cotton plant that, well, is more like a tree. Even some plants obtained in a seed exchange that nobody’s quite sure what they are.

It’s all in a one-third acre backyard in Kilauea that still has plenty of lawn, a … [read more]