03-10-2008, 09:38 AM
We are 2 blocks from the daily Keaau Farmers Market. I know of 4 main Puna markets: Volcano next to the skate park - Sunday's very early gone by 10:30am; Keaau - main intersection - daily; Makuu - Sunday morning - mid aft. - 130 east (Pahoa) of Makuu street; Pahoa - Luquins lower parking lot - Saturday???
Some of our neighbors have chickens, even though we have small city lots.... and there are always 'jungle fowl' chickens that seem to roam anywhere with no respect for the county zonings!
We loved staying a block from the ocean while we were looking at where to live... but the ocean front maintenance, distance to services (moved here so that I could go back to college), wanting to really minimize our footprint (although house redo due to the critter damage on this house has reduced our 'green' footprint... I cringe, but once I knew the critter load in the house.... RIPPPP went the materials...), reduce our need for cars while enjoying cultural events all pointed to this move into town or somewhere on the Pahoa bus route.
Also we realized the constant maintenance that land here wants, even if you want a native area.... We had lived in an ag subdivision in Illinois with 1/2 of our land in a conservation easement zoning. Clearing out non-natives was usually a week a summer with one or two interns working in a neighborhood cooperative.... here I think it would be every one or 2 months to keep up....without the cooperative.
Some of our neighbors have chickens, even though we have small city lots.... and there are always 'jungle fowl' chickens that seem to roam anywhere with no respect for the county zonings!
We loved staying a block from the ocean while we were looking at where to live... but the ocean front maintenance, distance to services (moved here so that I could go back to college), wanting to really minimize our footprint (although house redo due to the critter damage on this house has reduced our 'green' footprint... I cringe, but once I knew the critter load in the house.... RIPPPP went the materials...), reduce our need for cars while enjoying cultural events all pointed to this move into town or somewhere on the Pahoa bus route.
Also we realized the constant maintenance that land here wants, even if you want a native area.... We had lived in an ag subdivision in Illinois with 1/2 of our land in a conservation easement zoning. Clearing out non-natives was usually a week a summer with one or two interns working in a neighborhood cooperative.... here I think it would be every one or 2 months to keep up....without the cooperative.