Big Island Food Forest Orchard Tour 2023

[@bretzda]

I'm so happy you two are back online! I've been waiting. Congratulations on your child and marriage. As long as I'm online I'll be watching!

[@jaimemondragon2010]

Wow living the dream!! you guys are the cutest! I hope you continue to have amazing abundance and health

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thank you for the beautiful words 🤙🏾✨

[@maoqu3238]

Love how happy and genuine you guys are

[@KathleenHawk]

It's so cool to see how well everything is doing 💜💜💜 I remember when the trees were seedlings growing in little pots, listening to peaceful music 🌱 I'm proud of you guys 💗

[@noxtwilight_]

Beautiful, makes me wish i bought one of those lots but wow so much work and investment of resources to achieve. You guys should be really proud.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks!

[@car-u-fix-it8070]

Man…that is awesome…!…some day …some day..mean time thanks for the videos

[@alfredbalauro3215]

Glad to see you folks are more mature and focused

[@Debra309]

Really happy to see you back! Been following for a while now. What an amazing transformation! We are almost 4 years on our mostly lava spaghetti lot. Mulch, mulch and more mulch hauls. You have given us so many inspirational ideas. ❤ Thank you!

[@sherw6456]

So great to see you two again, and what a treat to get a tour of your wonderfully productive place, after so long! Been following for several years and was sad when I thought you'd disappeared. Our place is far smaller and lower than yours (1/4 acre and at about 100' elevation), but we are trying to make it into a functional food-yard as well as ornamentals. For now we have producing bananas, avocados, peppers, and papayas. Hope to see more videos soon! 😀

[@triplet8373]

Please keep making videos! I love your videos.

[@rogermannering]

We would like to see your house. You guys look really good. We missed you guys for a long time.

[@ainabearfarm8075]

Such amazing progress! Up in Hāmākua our Anonas including the Rollinias are getting hit hard with a beetle that bores into the trunks. Wondering if you guys are seeing that? 🤙❤️

[@OffGridHawaii]

How old are the trees? We did have that happen when the trees were very young but as they got older the beetles don’t seem to bother them. I’ve heard the beetles only fly sideways so you can protect them by surrounding them with plants or build cages with shade cloth

[@ainabearfarm8075]

@@OffGridHawaiithat is a really good point. Our two older Rollinia don’t seem to be affected but all of our Soursop are getting hit hard and our young Cherimoyas. Sounds like a great idea to plant more vegetation around them so I’m definitely going to try that. Mahalo nui!

[@danielnaberhaus5337]

That could be QLB but there's also a new pest attacking annona leaves within the last year.

[@kerynchapman5782]

Hi From South Coast NSW Australia. love watching food forest ideas. thanks for sharing.,

[@Neo.chilll]

He loves you so much !!! ❤

[@ziggy5369]

It's looking like a dream you guys much love

[@timspencer4324]

Mmmmm, lava guava.

[@xx-pm5if]

AWESOME TO SEE YOU GUYS BACK

[@222mmax]

Miss you both. You give excellent videos of the life offgrid. God bless you. Maranatha!

[@MarktheShark808]

Been a long wait!!

[@williamrodgers6619]

Gld you guys are back on YT. I was thinking it would be cool if you guys showcased some of the ways you are using your crops. I would love to see cooking videos or something like that if it made sense

[@michaelwilliams5234]

Thank you

[@dswearingen4579]

How the place has changed- truly beautiful! You have something to be really proud of. I’m impressed- so well done!! From the beginning it looks like the container house is gone? You have a new wood type house? Anyway, it looked like you were on a wood porch. That would be a fun part of your story to explain. Mahalo🌴🌴😁🤙🏻

[@OffGridHawaii]

Mahalo! We expanded our shipping container house and build with wood. We don’t have plans to show it on video any time soon though 😄 it looks cool though 🤙🏾

[@irmary429]

I'm so glad you guys are back. We really missed you. I would like to see a video about farmers markets.

[@ifagalz]

Aloha and Mahalo. Enjoyed your videos and and am happy you are back. Starting on a land we purchased and it's good to see what you had done with yours. Good luck.

[@jmtolibas3903]

Aloha. Welcome back. I think I'm moving there next year because of your videos.

[@mn396-p9s]

Welcome back! It's great to see you guys back making videos again!

[@aiyalidat]

In the time you've been away, I just want you to know you inspired this pacific island boy to get his Puna property looking pretty proper. Mahalo nui loa for sharing your beautiful land with us.

[@OffGridHawaii]

That’s wonderful that we inspired you to get it looking good! It feels good to have a beautiful sanctuary 🤙🏾✨

[@ajmalshah-ec5yb]

I really like your videos and hard work to plant that many fruit trees.

[@pradyumnanayak9844]

Excellent 👍🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@noah786]

Thanks for the tour, I would like to see taste testing of the fruit.

[@mitcheljolienetresslar7183]

I would love to see some videos on how y’all planted your trees on the lava, we dug as far down as we could, made mounds as tall as we could and planted our trees on the mounds. They’re all fantastic so far.

[@tropikalneroslinyukasza9671]

oh it's so good to see you again, you are an inspiration to many. Is the macadamia nut a monoecious plant and self-pollinating? after how many years of sowing the seeds bring the first fruits.

[@piercebeekeeping]

So glad to see you guys back online.

[@joeymiller513]

So blessed and so happy to see you both back and thriving , aloha Aina 🌊🏝✌🏽❤🌈🤙🏽🍄

[@noelynkoutalo6174]

We call bread fruit 'ulu' too on my island home in PNG. love your video

[@markamcclintick]

Aloha Michael and Paulina, I met you this morning at Island Naturals in Hilo, HI! I also met Mike’s dad 😇. My wife Rainbow Rachel and I have enjoyed watching your KZbin videos! We live in Hawaiian Acres in our Aloha Garden Of Peace. We would love to have a visit with you two! Mahalo, Mark and Rachel McClintick

[@OffGridHawaii]

Aloha mark, our email is [e-mail]

[@amyjo2797]

Glad you're back. Looking forward to seeing and hearing what you both have been up to.

[@OhDoozie]

Hell McFrickin Yea! I’ve checked back every so often to see if you guys updated here and I’m so glad to see you are back AND NOW YOUR PARENTS? Excited to see what gets shared.

[@harryshigeura3892]

So good to see you guys making vids again and how your paradise is filling out !!! All of your vids always leave me quiet and always with a huge smile on face !!! and so happy for you guys !!! ☺☺☺

[@asztapaszta9]

Amazing garden, thank you for sharing! Please post as much as you can about everything! :)

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks ! We will try 😉

[@RyanScion]

Love it! Great video thank you for taking us through your paradise and I especially enjoyed Rollinia Row 😁

[@harleymcwatters7268]

NEW VIDEO!! Glad to see what awesome progress you two have made, and have made it work!! Glad you guys are doing well!

[@julzrouge369]

Wonderfull tour and I loooove the abundance you have created and are living in. 🥰 It would be so nice to see the property from a birds eye view. 😬🙏🏻💚

[@AussiePharmer]

Glad to see that you're back! Cant wait to see more durian updates. Or even growing more of them. They love perfect drainage and being planted on mounds when we saw them being grown in Malaysia

[@AndrewMeidenbauer]

The land looks incredible!

[@adamproffichols5556]

I'm happy to see you guys again!

[@edrivera5996]

nice to see you back making video's, place looks great!

[@mitcheljolienetresslar7183]

You two are super cute! Aloha! We live in Orchidland and are working hard to get our food forest going. We have been planting trees nearly every weekend. 🌳🌴🌳🌴 Would love to see your project more in the back! It already looks beautiful! We’re doing agroforestry/silvo pastures with our back acre, would love any inspiration we can get.

[@mikes_in_paradise78]

You can sell so much of this fruit!!! Nice wonderful farm...lots of maintenance but awesome production.

[@Gacha_Life209]

Nice to see you guys again! Mahalo

[@mybubblyheartshay8428]

So beautiful 💚thank you ❤

[@Burger1097]

Your both still smiling, nice.

[@jsivanataru]

Your videos are such a delight, thank you for the wonderful tour!

[@roysmith5293]

So good to see you you both back your videos are a wealth of knowledge 👍

[@JohnsDaughter]

Spirit of preservation. Mahalo

[@mlissgay5054]

Thank you for sharing ❤ aloha from big island 🏝️😅

[@JasonFleckDaHawaiianViking]

Looking great guys! didn't think coconut would grow at elevation? Aloha! 🤙🏼

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks! Yeah coconut should fruit all the way up to 1000ft.

[@russellsmith8609]

Hello again, while you were looking a little nervous when the video first started as you were walking around your property I could see you becoming more calm and relaxed. Living in your own food forest will probably do that to you. A personal question, are you still vegetarians? Didn't know if the cow was part of your food future. Are you still using the same outdoor shower? Thanks for another glimpse into your little bit of paradise, cheers.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Yeah it felt so foreign to film a video again! The intro to this video was the first time we had talked to a camera in like 3 years. We filmed the walking portion the next day. We are no longer vegan/vegetarian but that cow is our neighbor’s :) We do still use the outdoor shower but only if it’s really nice out.

[@RawVibrantHealth]

wow! all the hard work has really paid off for you guys! You must be in Rollinia heaven! I hope to be living the dream on the land again ASAP! Thanks for the inspiration!

[@annchee1329]

Love your vid, and like to see continuous process of your fruit trees, and maybe, recipes from your homestead!❤️

[@OffGridHawaii]

Yeah I think we will do some recipe video 😊

[@on3onon3]

Beautiful property. Thank you for the tour. Glad to see you back.

[@RayKapileo-ll6jp]

Aww...ur both back. ❤ love from Saipan, CNMI.❤

[@thecfarchive7816]

Missed you guys. Thanx for coming back. Hope your channel grows big again. You need a chipper shredder to make your own mulch easier.

[@OffGridHawaii]

We do have a small one. We make chips once in a while. Thanks for watching 😊

[@DucNguyen-wz8iz]

your play ground coming along really well :).

[@aguedabueno518]

Welcome back. And thank you!!!

[@susanapantalita2163]

We missed you guys

[@vidajordan9803]

Very nice success update. Stay well.God bless you both.🌺

[@mountaingardening]

So glad to have you guys back! Looking forward to seeing more updates! Mahalo.

[@mwelch5]

Welcome back. Thanks for sharing

[@sunshinetampa7434]

First time seeing your channel. Love the food forest. In the "back,back" area lol, I believe I saw tomatos, sugar cane, squash plants a persimmon tree ,tamarind and bananas

[@OffGridHawaii]

Good eye!

[@justinjess7776]

I have been watching ypu since day 1. Glad to see you back. We have dreamed of having what you have! Where is your property and how big is it? I am so inspired by the two of you and its great to see you again!!!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Wow big changes since day 1 :) We’re in 3 acres in upper Puna.

[@refugiopoint]

Awesome video, amazing amount of work, thank you for sharing!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Our pleasure!

[@edwinrodrigues9747]

​@@OffGridHawaiibread fruit tastes great when fried. They should be sliced like fish fillets and coated with egg and breadcrumbs. Then shallow fried till outside breadcrumbs become crispy

[@Sprengerfamily]

wow your property has really come a long way. Amazing. Hard work paying off!

[@CatherineandRob]

Inspiring that you’re trying syntropic agroforestry!

[@Mrvanna-fo8hc]

Hello, I am from Cambodia❤❤❤❤

[@rodgillette8066]

Nice! Rollinia is also my favorite next to Hawaiian Papayas. I have a 3 year old Hawaiian Pomegranate in a 10 gallon pot on my patio. This is the first year it bloomed - have 5 baseball sized fruits. We have maybe two more weeks before I will need to bring it in for the winter (I live in Wisconsin). Looking forward to your upcoming videos.

[@MikeMisiewicz]

Moving there in November.

[@Shitfuckt]

Likewise

[@buckgrafix]

Glad that you're making videos again! I'd like to know how much of your produce you sell (and how), and if you live off what you produce. Thanks!

[@susanapantalita2163]

Wow the breadfruit

[@jedi_mapperp4073]

Surprised and happy to see you back. Looks like the time off YT really paid off. Hard to build a life while filming it. Now everything looks so well established. When I watched your earlier videos we were considering a move to the Big Island. Rising real estate prices on BI and high healthcare in US redirected us to the Silver Coast of Portugal. I just watched your last video in 2021. The issue of being a haole and the animosity towards them was a big factor. On the other hand, Portugal was promoting immigration with the D7 retirement visa. We fell in love with Portugal and the welcoming people. And there was one more interesting factor in our redirection…my wife is from the southern Philippines. She was never excited about moving to Hawaii. It was my adventure not hers. Her family lives off the land and sea in a rural area. My wife did that for 24 years. Then she surprised me when she said “What about Portugal?” 😃

[@leahh2424]

Can't wait for this 😊

[@gtrs4ever]

Great job, nice property.

[@spockster202]

Aloha! Happy your mature Mac nut trees are doing so well. We too found a dozen or so very mature trees when we bought our property six years ago. Currently we harvest maybe two bushels per season which is plenty for my wife and I. They are maybe 40 years old. Lots of ferns, heavy moss, and guava growing out of them. Would you recommend removing all moss, and heavy pruning? I’ve only fed ours grass mulch in the past around the drip line. What else would you recommend? 😊❤Mahalo.

[@OffGridHawaii]

I would say cleaning them up would be a good place to start. cleaning the moss and everything off plus removing any dead wood and minor pruning. Also adding some woodier type of mulch along with the grass clippings should help.

[@Ninjaz2]

Excited to see you back! Been waiting and hoping!

[@Icummings09]

Been waiting for you guys to come back!! Would love to see what day to day looks like with the kids, and work keeping with the property, what you guys do with the things you harvest, recipes, how you preserve if you do. And how much money do you save from food. Sorry. That’s a whole list. 😅 But I’m on O’ahu and slowly working on growing food but want to grow native and tropical food.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Haha that’s a list we’re still trying to answer ourselves since we’re pretty new to this abundant harvest. Good ideas for videos though :) we definitely want to share some recipes.

[@samsanchez8247]

This was wonderful ❤ can you also share an update on your house, maybe a new house tour? I’m very inspired by all your hard work

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thank you! We decided we are not going to make videos of our house for now. 🤙🏾😄

[@danielnaberhaus5337]

Stoked to see the channel revived! Are yall still selling plants? Im looking for sapodilla.

[@OffGridHawaii]

We aren’t as of now, besides cuttings and seeds.

[@danielnaberhaus5337]

@@OffGridHawaii I would buy some sapodilla seeds from you if you have.

[@theresakennedy7339]

Do you provide live tours for visitors?

[@OffGridHawaii]

Yeah we have in the past, but we’re kinda picky who we let in the property so we would rather have met the person beforehand or build some sort of relationship on IG prior.

[@shadwells460]

Great video. Love that you both keep it real and fun. You two create a lot of smiles and giggles for sure. 😊

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@mybubblyheartshay8428]

❤ Wonderful !!

[@gogucedar9354]

Looks great. I hope to someday have a food forest like that.

[@annchee1329]

Your land is looking amazing, and it’s beautifully done!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Mahalo Ann! 🌺🤙🏾

[@eddieco]

Glad to see you guys back. What elevation are you guys at?

[@OffGridHawaii]

700ft

[@eddieco]

@@OffGridHawaii Ahh, so that would put you in HA. I though you were in FF, near us... Glad your back. Your videos have been helpful to us on our build. So thank you for that.

[@dougduhaime2829]

What kind of wood chipper do you all have? I'd love to see an episode on how you make and use mulch!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Good idea for a video!

[@leahh2424]

Everything has grown so much. Thanks for giving us a tour. Are you guys still in the container or any updates there too? (As long as thats not to personal) would love to see any updates on functional things youve made. I enjoyed your videos about the outdoor shower and even the toilet 😂

[@_birth_of_new_earth_]

Awesome video! New project is probably trying to incorporate non tropical stuff like persimmons, melons and stuff? Exciting!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it 😊 we will reveal the new project in our next video, stay tuned 👀

[@RP-mc6or]

Your property looks great ! How rewarding all that hard work is, what do you use to crack open all those mac nuts ?!

[@OffGridHawaii]

We do them all by hand for now with a cracker we got on Amazon

[@RP-mc6or]

I will look into that ! This whole time been using a rock lol don't have the amount you have though. Mahalo keep up the good work, been watching for years !

[@222mmax]

Thank you. How do you know the line boundaries of your neighbors and your land? Do you have a fence? Please how do you store the macadamia nuts and milk them in the winter?

[@OffGridHawaii]

Our neighbor had their lot surveyed. The Mac nuts we dry and store in jars. I think we will be making a video showing the whole process at some point

[@bsdgffishtuna5186]

Love love love this guys. But I'd really LIEK to see a tour of your house? the casa. I think last time I saw your vids you were in a metal container box lol

[@OffGridHawaii]

Our house is looking very lovely lately but we have decided that we won’t be making videos specifically about it anymore and focus more on the garden and general off grid stuff instead. 🌳✨🌳

[@_JanetLouise]

mahalo from lower Puna

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks for watching!