To help you appreciate and remind us of our farm renovation progress, here are some photos from earlier and some more recent ones.
An example of a before and after picture of the same area:
October 2016. Look hard and you can see a little of red roof near the top middle of the photo.
February 2018
Photos from June 2016, prior to renovation, slideshow below:
2016. This was the area of the second block that got pruned, in 2019. Facing down the hill below lychee tree. Hard to see coffee trees for all the weeds, rubber trees and african tulips.
Furthest makai of coffee road. Vines, weeds and african tulips. Little coffee on trees.
2016, when this area wasn’t receiving enough attention.
Just below the 3 macnut trees. Vines are starting to take over coffee trees.
At end of path above 3 macnut trees, facing down the hill towards lower parcel.
Below macnut tree. Lots of weeds, african tulips, rubber plants and scraggly looking, nitrogen-deficient coffee trees with way too many leaders.
The slideshow below shows the stumping method of pruning and the recovery therefrom. As of January 2020, all trees in the farm have been stumped.
February 2018. First time stumping.
May 2018, first block of stumped trees growing.
November 2018
Stumps of January 2019.
Stumped in January 2019, shown in May 2019.
State of the farm in early 2020, slideshow below:
The last block on the farm to be stumped (January 2020).
Stumps of 2020 in April 2020.
Block 2, stumped in January 2019, is doing well.
Trees in Nov. 2019 that responded well to stumping in January 2019.
This tree was a stump in 2018. This was taken in May 2019.
A stump of 2018, loaded with fruit in May 2019..
These trees close to the bananas were stumped in 2018, and in early 2020 were about 9-12 feet tall.