The Window to the North Shore http://myupblog.wordpress.com Thoughts from My Uncles' Place Tue, 06 May 2008 05:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/e46f73263dccfaa8f444f944e7941f8a?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png The Window to the North Shore http://myupblog.wordpress.com How does your garden grow? http://myupblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/how-does-your-garden-grow/ http://myupblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/how-does-your-garden-grow/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 05:30:21 +0000 myunclesplace http://myupblog.wordpress.com/?p=11 ]]>

Ohhhh my.  So, in just 3 weeks, what was an innocent, flat, bare 4×4 square of soil has become a riot of green and *munchability*!!!   :)   :)   :)  

This pleases me.  Wanna see?

My Uncles' Place Square Foot Garden after 21 days.

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So, one of the many beautiful things that happens on this island is you can eat lots of food that was grown within 50 miles of your kitchen.  (Often closer, like, outside the back door, but that’s not the whole point of my story today.)

We’ve had the good fortune to be eating eggs from organic, free range chickens.  They’re SOOO good!  But that’s not my whole point either.  These eggs aren’t from just any old organic, free range chickens…they’re from the farm of our Aikido instructor, Godwin Esaki, who knows he commands all the energy (Ki) of the universe, and regularly practices such command.

Now.  Here’s a picture of one of his eggs (on the left – did I need to tell you that?) standing beside a store-bought organic egg.  

Think there’s anything to this Ki thing?  Think there’s anything powerful about Kaua’i?  :)

 

(And a thanks goes out here, too, to Jack, for taking this picture for us.  Hey, Jack, take a bow!)

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Yesterday, the garden (phase 1) was completed…and the tilapia had babies!  (or, at least, they’ve gotten big enough to be visible…Uncle K says they’re probably just over a week old.)  They are so teeny tiny but their eyes glow as if they were plugged in!  And we now have 19 new kinds of food growing – in a pretty small space, too, only 4 feet square – thanks to Mel and the Square Foot Gardening concept.  I’m just a city girl; this is all amazing.  Thank you, Kaua’i!

-Sanj

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