We provide garden teaching tours to organizations, school groups and others to explain eco-friendly gardening techniques. During the tours we demonstrate some of the key methods for creating and sustaining healthy natural gardens.
We have one of the the most beautiful, secluded, and sustainable gardens on Kauai. Even though we are only five minutes from the ocean we grow most of our own food and share our bounty with our guests and our community. Our goal for the last 30 years has been to create a permaculture estate where we grow 80% of our own food as well as food for our immediate community. This includes a wide range of vegetables, herbs, coconuts, bananas, papayas, fruit trees, as well as many kinds of rare trees such as Malasian Breadfruit, Jackfruit, Eggfruit, Cacao, and Durian, to name a few. We also grow structural bamboo that we utilize in a variety of ways in our buildings.
For those interested in Hawaiian Ti plants, we grow hundreds of different plants in all the known colors. By raising our own Ti plants from seed, we have some very rare specimens.
We have a unique property with natural springs that feed three large connecting ponds. The second pond has a waterfall you can hear from any location while on the tour. We grow coconuts, lychee and bananas along the ponds – which are full of Hawaiian lilies.
Sprinkled throughout our gardens are many stands of different Hawaiian tropical flowers. The living soil and ample night rains enable the plants to grow very tall. Our Touch Gingers reach a height of six to eight feet – quite breathtaking to behold. Fronting our vegetable garden are gorgeous Sexy Pinks.
Our natural ecosystem invites a lot of rare birds including the Gullinal, an endangered Hawaiian duck, and the Shaman Thrush, known for its beautiful song.
Another attribute of our gardens is the series of small water ponds and beautiful ceramic container ponds we have placed everywhere. These living ecosystems are full of fish and provide mosquito control.
We have a garden path that leads you from the top of the property into the lower gardens below. Once you are there, you don’t hear any cars and are transformed back into the peace and beauty of nature. A photographers delight, we provide tours of our gardens to the public by appointment. Please contact us in advance for rates and to schedule your tour.
