Dream Big Ride Far: Land Living

Fresh Food

Farm to Table

Sustainability

Permaculture

Eating off the Land

Unprocessed

Organic

Simple

Vegan

High Raw

As we were debating where our lives should take us in the next few years, these topics laid heavy on our hearts. And as we have changed, failed and refined our own definition of healthy eating, these terms have popped up in one way or another. Learning more and more about where our food comes from and how deeply it effects us, naturally, our hearts have called us to dig deeper and live out these passions. How and where we buy our food is a huge vote towards companies, farms and moral standings. We've learned we want to be wise about voting with our hard earned money. We want to be more educated in the food. As we become parents and are making choices not only for ourselves but for the future generations, we wanted to set up Kingston in a way to see what's really important in his years to come. The basic needs need to be met. He needs to eat and drink before he can do anything else. We wanted to take him to a place he could see where it all starts at such an early age.

We recognize there are many other important things going on in this life. There are a lot of things that need to change in order for us to continue living on this earth; with agriculture and farming, plastics, fracking, our oceans, how we treat one another, politics, how we look at ourselves, fare trade work, sanitation, etc. How we look at food and how we look at waste and consumerism kind of all snow balls into a lot of other issues. We are learning to take our time in the process while trying our best not to just waste time. All these things need a drastic change right now, but we are in it for the long haul, so we are trying to be patient with what the world is showing us as we start to shed our old ways and learn to live in our new skin.

Now that we have been here for almost three months we have learned so much more then I even expected. These people care big for their land and their culture and their history. They care big for the every day man and his journey. They care big for your growth and for your health. We are on indigenous land, with deeply routed history and spiritual beliefs. I knew I've always wanted to learn more about these islands and their culture, so to be here now, at my age, with someone I've been together with for nearly eight years, as a new mom with a beautifully absorbent and eager toddler, and with my toes barely dipped into a world of clean health and rescourceful living, is literally a dream come true.

Then there is the education we are getting about plants and dirt. They were calling us, and as much as we thought we knew, we didn't know anything, though I'm so glad we knew what we did before landing here. We wouldn't have made it to this point if we didn't. This farm produces coconuts, bananas, papaya, sugar cane, citrus, lilikoi, taro/kalo, ulu/breadfruit, avocados, peppers, kales, basil, parsley, eggplant, dark greens, and so much more we are still learning about.

We aren't taking these opportunities for granted. Living more sustainably, working on a producing farm, seeing those plants being made into delicious dishes served to the community, and being a part of this family vegetarian business is a blessing.