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| Merry Christmas | 7:13 AM, Dec 25 2008 |
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So I finally added a project to the current project page... We haven't had alot of time for interesting projects lately. Most of the work has been pruning, mulching and weeding. During the rainy season you have to watch out for fungal diseases, like black flag on the noni, and an airy, clean, field is the best prevention. Keeping the noni fertilized and healthy helps too, but excess growth in the winter needs to be cut back to keep the plants pickable. |
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| Passed Orgainic Certification Inspection | 6:43 PM, Aug 15 2008 |
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Lava Land and Mango Land farms passed organic certification today. Allan Yoza and the crew spent the last 2 days working hard to clean up the farms for inspection and passed with flying colors. The inspector said our farm was one of the nicest looking farms hes seen. |
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| Web site started | 12:41 AM, Aug 12 2008 |
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Development of our web site started this week. I haven't worked on a website in years and alot has changed. Its going to take a little time to get up to speed with Website Baker the cms im using, I don't think the term "Content Management System" even existed last time I messed around with web design. |
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Welcome to Dharma Farms. Owned and Operated by Allan Yoza.
Dharma Farms is a work exchange / WWOOF farm on the Big Island of Hawaii, owned by Allan Yoza. Our goal is to help teach people Bahkti Yoga, hard work and simple living as a healthy lifestyle, physically, mentally, and spiritually. We mostly farm noni, but we have all kinds of fruit growing on the farm. Avocado, mangos, bananas, pineapple, oranges, Ulu (bread fruit), coconut, mountain apple, taro, sugar cane, lychee, and probably more I can't think of right now. It is exciting when the trees we planted years ago finally fruit for the first time.
We have a small crew of payed workers to keep things going but most of our labor is done by wwoofers and other volunteers.
Allan Yoza leads the crew in working on the farm most afternoons. You are expected to work at least 3 hours a day to stay on the farm. Basic food is provided and free vegetarian dinners and bhakti yoga/mantra meditation classes can be had 5 nights a week, at gatherings, on either of 2 neighbor's farms. Rustic cabins are provided at the farm, or you can stay in a room at Allan Yoza's house in Hilo.
Allan Yoza also takes workers out for free surf lessons/sessions on sunday mornings.
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