Got a call from Joan in the middle of the goat butchering the other day to say that she had a few trees come down and I would I be able to help her out some time.
So I go over there yesterday and she'd actually already had some guys come and clean up the fallen stuff but she wants me to cut down some branches that may fall on some buildings. Sort of think she might have gone the other way, but anyay. She made me drink cups of coffee and we talked about our respective trials.
Then she had pick some avocado's to sell to Cindy at Vegout, and insisted that I keep the money as well take the Avo's home. Gave me some flavoured coffee's that she got for Christmas that she will never drink.
I promised to return when the truck was running to help with her pruning jobs.
Planted a bed of cassava and a bed of taro huli's that Keoni gave us. I guess it is a variety that can grow in wet paddy or dryland. Listening to Bill Mollison in 1983 on mp3 the other day, he was saying that most taro was grown dryland in old Hawaii. Not sure how he knows that, but he was pretty emphatic. I chopped up four banana stems to mulch the taro bed.
Pruned lower branches of a sesbania on the goat paddock side of the garden, gave them to our remaining goat. There are couple of calliandras under it that would probably take over pretty fast if I took it out all together, so I think I will do that gradually. First I might experiment on it by raising the canopy as high as it can go with it, to see how it responds. There is a bunch of stuff doing well under it, gardenias and hibiscsus, pineapples, sweet potato and peanut.