Being busy in paradise:

To start this post off right here are some beautiful views.

I worked the Saturday market again this week, last week was Hawi (havvie) this week was Waimea!

This week I worked at Waimea market which is bigger, there are more booths, more variety, and more tourists. Great to shop at, but it looses the hometown Hawai'i feel a little; its a mixed bag. 

Let me explain,

Last week I met new people that knew about the farm and knew about the people I was staying with. Everyone knew everyone else and all the booths were trading. We came home from that trip with tons of fruits and veggies and chocolate. We didn't sell as much, though.

This week food sales were booming! We sold out of all 8 sacks of lychee. We almost sold all of the macnuts and we made BANK, but we didn't know anyone else and people were not excited about trading. 

I had an amazing time at both markets and if you ever come to Hawai'i you MUST go to them both and then go cook an amazing meal. 

Oh, and I ate a lot.. 

Eggs Benedict for breakfast.

Cone sushi, this is tofu skin rapped around white rice. 

The BEST chocolate cake that I have ever had. It shouldn't even have been called cake, lets be honest people, it was fudge. 

That wasn't enough? I also had a Belgian waffle with nutella and whipped cream on top. 

Almost forgot, a strawberry smoothie pop too. 

Whats better after a long morning of eating? Beautiful views!

This is a view of the Kohala coast. 

Waking up at 4:30am, working all morning, and coming home at 12 feels like the day is over, but not it Hawai'i!

We went on a little hike... meaning walking though this grass. 

Guys I'm kidding this was not little. 

Silly Winton 

The walk was so worth it! Waterfall, refreshing ice cold water, sick jumps, cannon ball contest. The whole bazang. 

We are in Hawai'i, of course a machete was taken on our hike to open coconuts. 

This is Nick when he is cold and being attacked by mosquitoes. 

This is Nick taking a normal picture. 

This is Nick enjoying himself. 

Technology these days.. this is the field we walked through. 

Dinner time!

Jyoti smile!

Veggie stir fry with fried rice. 

And poached quail eggs? Yes please. 

Didn't think that was enough? My cousin shot a pig. 

So we took this pig,

-de-gutted it

-skinned it

-butchered it

AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Don't worry guys, they had light because I held the flash light the whole time!

Little piggy in the freezer. 

Stay tuned to find out what we did with this beast!

Beach day in paradise:

Beach day #1: 

Nothing like riding in the back of the pickup in Hawai'i 

Mahukona.

Family portrait:

Dash, Cryus, Erica, Jyoti, and baby to be.

RAWR

Farm house banana bread, 

Recipe will come in a later post, be patient! 

Beach day #2: 

So one of the bee hives swarmed, this is not good because we lost the bees. 

BUUUUUT this means we get honey. So here is the harvest of the farms first batch of honey. 

Kona:

Makalawena.

This is keawe (keavve) it can be chewed on for a snack. It has a sweet flavor that taste like captain crunch, it also has a straw texture so it stays together and is easy to spit out. 

It can also be ground up and sifted to be like mesquite powder. 

I dare you to get cuter!

Wait.. are you pregnant? 

 One of many great things about Hawai'i is the local food. 

On the main land it is such a big deal to have grassfed meat and it is also very rare to find. Here? it is the norm to have grassfed meat. So here at Annie's burger and beer grassfed all the way! 

To start we got tempura onion rings, we each only ate one because of GMO's in the soy bean frying oil. 

But ohboy were these good, the onion was so perfectly cooked and the outside was so crunchy and delicious. 

Here is my BBQ "south point" burger. 

Grassfed (island beef) with BBQ sauce with cheddar cheese and two of those gnarly onion rings. 

So good Nick thanked the burger gods. 

Wait...was this good?

Cousin photoshoot!

Sugar cane pops..

Once again Nick very happy about the food. 

Cali boys!

And lastly this is the farm we went to visit in South Kona.

This is a Torii.

This is a marker to the entrance of the holy garden. 

So this was at the entrance of the property which then turned out to be breathtaking. 

This is a native Hawai'ian hibiscus, and the only hibiscus species to have a soler (smell).

Here is Trent, he is a avid coconuter. 

He husked a brown coconut in under a minute and retrieved the copra, which then can be pressed to get coconut oil. 

Here is the copra. 

Here is a lilikoy, also known as a passion fruit. 

Baby Jyoti with a olena, which is a tumeric flower. 

Coffee beans!

Mama Joyti pictures. 

Mama getting ready to hold three kids

So overwhelmed with excitement

Beer brewing

BEAUTIFUL sunset. 

Lilikoy juice? yes please!

Kitty baby fashion show

Stick with me!

Tomorrow there will be some sight seeing. 

Happy summer!!