Readying for Windbreak Planting

During the winter and spring, trade winds come in from the ocean and are funneled inland by the valley of the South Fork of the Wailua river. They burst out of the valley and sweep across the property where the monastery is planting hardwood trees. To protect our precious hardwoods that we will be planting in the next few years, we are focusing on planting windbreaks this fall and winter, about 6,000 feet in all.

Today we loaded up almost a thousand pots of areca palms and several hundred pots of Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (spinach tree) on their way to be planted as components of our windbreaks. An equal amount will go over in a second load and then in five days the entire monastery will join together to plant trees, transplant small seedlings into larger pots and fill additional pots in preparation for seeding 3,000 mahogany trees. Stay tuned as the project evolves!

The truck and trailer, fully loaded with little trees

The trees are set out along their rows. One every five feet

There are five of these giant strips to be planted, areca palms down the center and Cnidoscolus aconitifolius along the sides. On the right is one of the future hardwood fields

After placing most of the rows by running around along side the trailer, Jayanatha hops in the back and does the last one from a more relaxed position.

over-exertion is the mother of invention

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