Kanaka Gardens

There are many benefits cited about gardening but perhaps the most appealing benefit to you and I is the amount of money we will save from groceries, and the fact that you can either share your excess for events and family or you can sell it at a local market for supplemental income.

Yesterday was a great time to start your garden, but today or tomorrow will do.  We don't want to find our families in a period of hardship, should that barge we depend on ever stop coming.  Would you be prepared?  How many items that presently come on the barge, can we manufacture right at home? 

Let's look at how much we can do with a small & simple garden:

Fruits:  you can use some, sell excess, share with family, make and sell jelly or dried fruit products, and make a lucrative income just on raw fruit sales.

Vegetables:  you can use some, sell excess, share with family, make and sell pestos and sauces for a great income

Herbs & Spices:  what you don't use, you can share with family and sell in markets, or make products.  Check in with your local kahu to see if they need any on stock.  They will be thankful 

Medicinal Plants:  for all other obvious reasons

If you have a chipper, you can contract that to people who are cleaning up their land, mix it with your compost or make bio-char to clean your aina.  No matter how you use it, you can make a decent living turning it into nutrients for the soil.

Perhaps its time for you to assess your garden and how you can save time & lawn mower gas by making edible landscaping, as opposed to the never ending task of cutting a hot lawn, getting sunburn and wasting money on upkeep that doesn't serve you or your family.  Let's plant seeds together.