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Costco does have live lobsters from time to time but not regularly. There is a aqua farm in the Natural Energy Lab area where you can buy live Maine lobsters that are very good.
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Screw imports, how about growing for your needs, as much as you can, youself. That is pretty cheap. Don't need a large plot, it is amazing how stuff grows here. That is when we are not having torrential rains, droughts, high winds etc....Pigs abound as well, good source of protien. Certainly pays to buy chicken feed for eggs if you have chickens. Taro and sweet potatoes do great in Puna. Buy as little as you have to, especally from Safeway - they don't seem to get organic, or GMO free yet.
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We grow tomato,several peppers,eggplants,sweet potatoe,onlions,okra,lettuce and the usuall
papaya,banana,guava and lilikoi. All in the yard here in Sea View. We try to grow not buy.
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Growing your own veggies is fun and a great way to spread aloha. We give our surplus to neighbors and friends and even trade some for things we would have to buy otherwise. We traded veggies for some expensive landscape plants (mostly palms) that are usually not given away or easily rooted.
Environmentally, it is a win-win situation. Growing your own cuts fuel consumption on both the production and transportation ends of the process. Also, you control which, if any, chemicals are used on your food.
We have been quite successful here in mid-HPP with collards, mustard, turnips, lima beans, pole beans, peas, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, cabbage, sweet potatoes, herbs, and all the usual tropical fruits Wyatt mentioned. We have been less successful with regular tomatoes and corn due to fungus disease problems which which only seemed to have toxic chemical solutions. We did get a small success with a variety of cherry tomato, though.
Try it! You don't need a lot of space, although in many parts of Puna you may have to haul in some topsoil. (Or make you own out of cinders and compost. I think the County offers free or cheap greenwaste compost at the Hilo dump.)
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Noticed lots of orange or tangerine (not sure which) trees all over puna right now with lots of fruits on the trees and all over the ground. We have had one tree for almost 15 years and produces maybe 3 fruits on the tree per year. We live on 5th in HPP and was wondering if anyone could tell us why our tree produces so few fruits while people all around us have more than they know what to do with?
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My thought would be to walk up to neighbors whose trees are doing so splendid in the production of fruit and ask them their secrets! People love to share and talk about their prized fruits and veggies!
Do you feed it any fertilizer? What color are the leaves? Lime green, emerald or forest? A good nursery could help out also, but your neighbors might just have a less costly solution, like egg shells, and coffee grounds a little lime and a little bit of acidic fertilizer. Don't know but worth a try! Good Luck!
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Does the Hilo Wal-Mart have a grocery section?
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The County won't let the Hilo Wal-mart have a grocery section (those stores are called SuperCenters). It only has a subset, like eggs, butter, etc. Butter is, by far, cheaper there than anywhere but you have to buy several when available because the store is usually out of stock. It was the cheapest to buy white bread until Malama Market opened. I've consistently seen its white bread cheaper.
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Unfortunately, Walmart raised the price of butter to $3.97/lb. I was shocked last time I went in to stock up. That is the same price that most other stores are charging..when on sale. Oh well!!
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Hi, macuu222. I am not sure I can answer your question, but I have a similar problem here in Oceanside, California. My citrus trees do very poorly except for one orange tree that is right next to a wall. I think it is because I am in a coastal microclimate where the seabreeze is very strong, and the weather is almost always cooler than the surrounding area. Am wondering if areas very close to the coast in Puna might not have similar problems.
