Garden Tour Videos
Click each picture for Parts 1 & 2
Garden Video Part 1 of 2
Aloha! Welcome to Hohani Gardens!!!
We are sooo excited to share our garden with you. It has been our growing baby for the last year. LOL!
We have a 2 part Garden Tour for you. Part 1 is the garden a few days ago. Part 2 is our first day in our garden, almost 1 year ago….
We have had soo much fun and have learned so much. We had no idea what we were getting into when we first started this treck about a year ago. At the first place that we lived here on Maui, we built a small box garden and had great success with tomatoes, tons of salad greens, kale, herbs, beets, carrots etc. Although, we only lived there for about 2 mos. and only maintained it for a short time after. That was our first experience in the garden.
So Hohani Garden (above) is where we have been the last year. 
And this is like our first real garden. Before now, I could barely keep my house plants alive and the only food I have ever grown was a chia pet! And I didnt even KNOW (chia) was food at that time! Chris gardened as a child with his mom and sisters, so he had some knowledge. But we have seriously learned everything as we go.
It really began a few years ago when we started cleaning up our food choices. Eliminating processed foods was the goal. After awhile, we realized we were buying the majority of our groceries at the Farmers Market. -McClendons in Old Town Scottsdale- (Wonderful Farmers Market if you are in the area). We pretty much ate produce. And since we already knew we were to live in Maui, we began to get REALLY excited to GROW OUR OWN FOOD!! Thats all we knew. We could hardly wait. So thats why we built the first garden even though we knew it was temporary. We had get our hands in the dirt. ASAP.
So this garden has already grown through a few rounds and has morphed plenty of times. We just started with planting the food that we were buying regularly. And every once in a while you will get a surprise garden plant that you never planted. I love it! We also started collecting seeds of all of our favorite organic fruits n veggies that we would eat anywhere. It is so awesome! We have quite a collection already. Now we just need the perfect seed saving device! We have seeds EVERYWHERE!!!
Originally the gardens were mostly overgrown with weeds when we first got here. So, we started by cleaning each bed out . Part 2 Video is the very first day we worked in our garden and you will see the overgrowth that we started with… and the little bit of paradise that we uncovered! It felt sooo nice to clear all that out and start fresh. We did get a few plants to start with. Check it out!
Garden Video Part 2-
A video of our first days in the garden
We are curious if you are growing any of the food that you eat currently?
If you are not growing anything, why not? At the least you can have some house plants, a.k.a salad greens, tomatoes and herbs. They are easy and dont require a ton of space. I never knew!
It is not that hard and sooo rewarding to not only know where your food comes from, but to actually bond with your food as it grows and until you eat it. It really is fascinating. I had no idea what a lot of my food looked like growing!! That was scary for me. And I am constantly learning of the amazing amount of varieties of fruits n veggies that we never hear of. Not to mention WILD EDIBLES…. MMMmmmmm…. There is sooo much food out there, we tend to forget there is more than the isle at the grocery store.
Thats why we had to share our garden with you! We hope it inspires you to start with just one edible plant around your house, if you don’t already have one or have a garden.
If we can do it, so can you!
We love you tons n tons! Have an awesome day!
Chris & Sara
Aloha! Merry Xmas!! And Happy New Year! ….. in May~ We thought this vid might put a big smile on your face…We went camping on one of our favorite secret beaches for Xmas as well as New Years this last year. Since then I have had major computer issues on and off and have never gotten to putting this up. It made us realize how fast the year is going. We hope the first half of this year has been fabulous for you and that all of your wishes are coming true!
