Relocating Noni Trees

On our agricultural land across the Wailua River, we have a large planting of Noni trees for making our Wailua River Noni Juice. In a previously planted field, several rows of young trees are starting to outgrow their space. It's time for us to remove some and plant them out in a recently prepared field. Acharya Arumuganathaswami, Sannyasins Saravananathaswami and Tillainathaswami, Brahmachari Akash and Doug all joined forces to amend the soil and relocate the new trees. Aum.

The little noni trees are planted in their new home

The team starts with an empty field

Tillainathaswami arrives with the excavator to do some digging

First a row must be plotted out

The trees are planted much further apart than their previous spacing of four feet

Planning is key!

Swami digs up a large area for each tree, in order to loosen our compacted Kauai clay for the plant\

s future root system'

Acharya checks to see that this is deep enough to break through the clay

As Tillainathaswami digs the holes, the ground team adds nutrients and then Doug fills the holes in with the tractor.

Acharya then comes through with the Case to harrow the field, breaking up and smoothing out the overall surface.

After digging up the trees, we bring them over to be planted and watered

A single, rainbow-colored cloud shines above as we end the morning. Aum.

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