Sunny Sunday before Memorial day

As usual I have neglected to add any updates. Same old excuse - busy, busy, busy. We are in a slow time now. The coffee trees are overloaded with green coffee and are very healthy this year. Lots of rain and better attention to maintenance of the orchard are showing. Primary activities are suckering the coffee trees - trimming off all new vertical sprouts growing off the main branches, and surveying the coffee for signs of insects and fungal diseases. So far they look clean.

The macadamia processors are still not buying from individual farmers so we are harvesting the nuts, de-husking them and letting them dry for a few weeks before storing them. Hoping they will start buying nuts soon. Our coffee storage shed is filling up.

This is the first year for vanilla production after most of the vines died from a soil fungus. The new vines look gret and I’m pollinating the flowers most mornings. It will be a small crop but better than nothing.