We feel so blessed to have so many new friends from around the world that are supporting our efforts through watching our film. We are amazed at how may people in such diverse climate regions have taken the time to listen to our story. We thank them. It is humbling to consider someone from Saudi Arabia gave us almost a half hour of time. Kauai has got to be about the easiest place on earth to have success in creating a subsistence yard. Saudi Arabia; my guess is full food production in the backyard is a serious challenge there. We found this video below to show success is possible in a dry desert climate. This is a great story about what was made possible in Jordan.

With best wishes and maximum respect to our fellow humans on the other side of this big world. May you have much success in reclaiming the abundance of your land!!! Aloha from the team at Akamai Backyard!

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).

The Seed exchange in Kapaa was well attended and we found new homes for all our many plant starts we brought. Taro, sweet potato, comfrey, garlic chives, lilikoi, avocados, cotton, and lemon grass. Yeah! There was so much quality free plants and seeds. If you missed this one, catch the next one. We’ll keep you posted. Dr. Hector Valenzuela from University of Hawaii made a meaningful presentation on the GMO industry followed by his recommendations for a much stronger, healthier pathway of saving seeds designed by nature.

Yeah! We are going to talk story with Garden Show host, Paul Massey, on KKCR this Wednesday, 5/26/2010.

Akamai Learning was honored with the Kapaa Rotary‘s top honor of Four Star Green Innovations Award on April 28th, 2010.

Melissa Mojo and Rodney Pascua of Kapaa Rotary Club

Thalia Espinoza, Victor Sanchez, Felicia Cowden, Anuhea Lizarraga, Ian Cowden & Amber Williams of Akamai Learning

We are thrilled to discover our neighbors from the next road up are an amazing group called Superforest.  We reconnected with Jackson, whom I’ve known since he was a child, (as wonderful then as he is now.)  We are excited to be collaborating with Zero One on educating and inspiring others to reconnect with our beloved earth through permaculture and edible landscaping.  They have a great website full of all kinds creative thought guiding us to a better direction.  Yeah, Jackson and Jesse and Justin and Mea!  see their log about us…

Jesse & Jackson of Superforest at Zero One

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]