Friday, April 4, 2014

Ranch Hands April 2014



March saw a wide variety of new items... we attended the Kona Beer Brewers Festival, our chicken operation got new "digs" & the banana's ripened by the hundreds!!!

We started the month at the Kona Beer Brewer's Festival taste-testing almost 40 island & west coast breweries products.....  well, someone had to do it!!  By the way, "people watching" takes on a whole new meaning in Hawaii.  It must be the warm weather. 

Our chicken flock expanded last winter & they now have improved sheds, covers & fences...  Les calls it the "Chick Chalet" and they've adopted it as home.

Our banana tress have been fruiting & ripening for 4 months....  of course they became ready to harvest about the same time....  and "bunches" of bananas you see in a store are really just parts of the very large "racks" of bananas that grow on each tree....  so luckily all the critters here also eat bananas when dozens ripen each day hanging off of the Hacienda!!!

Boars: IX
Mongeese: CLXIX