This last week at Limahuli Ray and I have been talking story about belauan culture after ethnobotany week. We talked amazing story about belauan culture. So cool. We stayed in this old valley that used to house an ancient hawaiian civilisation. With the gardeners there we built earth ovens with hot rocks and banana stems and ti leafs and cooked breadfruit, wild pig, taro, and we mashed poi and planted sweet potato and taro - which we also learned to clean and process. The food was amazing.
Raining more as we head into winter and the land looks amazing. We just spent 2 weeks after ethnobotany week at limahluli gardens, an ancient hawaiian settlement for eons ago. It was lived in by the community living traditionally until statehood in the 60's where the land was appropriated and was made a national park and the people were removed and the lo'i aquaducts bulldozed. The shit I saw in that valley was more advanced than any roman or greek fucking city. It was a sustainably built irrigation system that fed the earth and the people and didn't give anyone lead poisining. The hawaiian also had a land management sysytem known as ahuupuaa which recognised the area of one stream or river (the catchment) as a single and unique ecosystem and people cared for it the whole length of the valley. Ensuring it was healthy. We spent 4 days in the lower valley removing invasive forest and planting natives. I learned some rad techniques for Australia if I wanna go try do some ecosystem reconstuction there. The other days we were in the garden. We tended the lo'i and made mulch and planted out. Ray and I caught 8 chickens (me 2) in wild chicken traps we made from guava tree and also caught shrimp from the stream with coconut midrib lassoes and coconut as bait. That tree is truely magical. Over 70 uses in belauan culture for all different parts for all different things. I caught and cleaned a bunch of fish too with a throw net. You go out and spot the school swimming and launch the net and bring it in. We got 6 menuenue and cleaned and fryed them up. We also had another imu and built an earth oven and I watched the wild pig (feed up in a pen entirely on food scraps) get butchered and bled and then helped clean and shave the pig and prepared it and the wild chickens for the earth oven. Van ray said that sea meat like turtle and dugong is the best meat there is becuase it feeds on sea grass and sea weeds. There was an old uncle that worked at the garden preserved called uncle tommy and he had lived on country back in the 1930's. He was 76. His 73yr old sister taught us pandanus weaving. He talked lots of story about growing up in what was now a national park. He didn't know how to clean a pig, but he knew how to catch and clean a turtle. Time changes fast i guess.
Got back to the south shore last evening. We saw albatross on the drive back when we stopped at the old lighthouse reserve. so huge. Then Van ray and me went to a garden function with gormet food and dancing and deserts. I got put on security and ate heaps of food and loads of red. Today was spent lax in the hammock with some good meals to intersperse and a movie and dinner with ray.
Hope all are well. Speak soon.
Harris
Raining more as we head into winter and the land looks amazing. We just spent 2 weeks after ethnobotany week at limahluli gardens, an ancient hawaiian settlement for eons ago. It was lived in by the community living traditionally until statehood in the 60's where the land was appropriated and was made a national park and the people were removed and the lo'i aquaducts bulldozed. The shit I saw in that valley was more advanced than any roman or greek fucking city. It was a sustainably built irrigation system that fed the earth and the people and didn't give anyone lead poisining. The hawaiian also had a land management sysytem known as ahuupuaa which recognised the area of one stream or river (the catchment) as a single and unique ecosystem and people cared for it the whole length of the valley. Ensuring it was healthy. We spent 4 days in the lower valley removing invasive forest and planting natives. I learned some rad techniques for Australia if I wanna go try do some ecosystem reconstuction there. The other days we were in the garden. We tended the lo'i and made mulch and planted out. Ray and I caught 8 chickens (me 2) in wild chicken traps we made from guava tree and also caught shrimp from the stream with coconut midrib lassoes and coconut as bait. That tree is truely magical. Over 70 uses in belauan culture for all different parts for all different things. I caught and cleaned a bunch of fish too with a throw net. You go out and spot the school swimming and launch the net and bring it in. We got 6 menuenue and cleaned and fryed them up. We also had another imu and built an earth oven and I watched the wild pig (feed up in a pen entirely on food scraps) get butchered and bled and then helped clean and shave the pig and prepared it and the wild chickens for the earth oven. Van ray said that sea meat like turtle and dugong is the best meat there is becuase it feeds on sea grass and sea weeds. There was an old uncle that worked at the garden preserved called uncle tommy and he had lived on country back in the 1930's. He was 76. His 73yr old sister taught us pandanus weaving. He talked lots of story about growing up in what was now a national park. He didn't know how to clean a pig, but he knew how to catch and clean a turtle. Time changes fast i guess.
Got back to the south shore last evening. We saw albatross on the drive back when we stopped at the old lighthouse reserve. so huge. Then Van ray and me went to a garden function with gormet food and dancing and deserts. I got put on security and ate heaps of food and loads of red. Today was spent lax in the hammock with some good meals to intersperse and a movie and dinner with ray.
Hope all are well. Speak soon.
Harris
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