My farm book is here!

What a process it's been... a steep learning curve!  I never realized just how much extra work is involved in getting a book published, far more than the writing and editing bits.  But never mind: it is printed and bound and is now being distributed!  See links at the right for ordering.  Or, if you're on-island, come see me and save on shipping, and maybe even get a farm tour while you're at it.

Here's the back cover blurb:

The Table of Contents will give you an idea of what's inside:

You can read the first bits on the Amazon page using their "click to look inside" feature.  It doesn't get you to the juicy bits though. (And no, I didn't have any say in that set up, but it is pretty cool.)

It felt like Christmas when this big carton of books arrived, never mind that we already knew what was inside!

In other news:
I have 50 more little chicks (because I wasn't busy enough already, I guess) to add to the flocks.  They will begin laying sometime in December which will help keep our egg supply steady through winter, or maybe even increase it a little.  We are now supplying a local all-organic restaurant as well as my regular customers who come to the farm to pick up their eggs, and any surplus still goes to the big Hilo Farmer's Market (though less now with the restaurant buying up as many as I can supply).

Piggies are all doing well.  Spot had 15 (!!) piglets but that was soon reduced to 10.  (These things happen.)  Those ten are all thriving, almost ready to be weaned in fact.  They are the cutest litter so far with all the multi-colored speckles and spots!

Most of Big Mama's piglets have been sold off already; only two are still with us now.  Getting some loves from Kerry:

The new feed arrived in fine shape and the second shipment is already on its way.  I was a little worried that our egg customers might balk at the higher cost of eggs (since organic non-gmo feed costs more), but only one said it wasn't worth it to him.  All the others thought it was great and many even upped their orders!  And the chickens love this stuff!

 

 

So, it's still busy-busy around here, as usual.  I haven't even mentioned the new coop being built, or the kabocha that's taking over one whole side of the growing field, or the hale being booked almost continuously, or the crops all growing like mad, or the pineapples all getting ripe at once, or...