Ramping up

Ramping up was Originally Posted on November 3, 2004 by lavarock

As a new month starts, I begin to ramp up on projects.

I just paid my first mortgage payment and now must look towards making some money to pay the bills.

Today I printed some labels for 2 oz coffee bags. Some of them will be offered for sale at the Kona Coffee Festival this week. The receipts will help fund Council projects to inform and educate the public about 100% Kona Coffee.

Tomorrow is the Council meeting. Friday is a full day. In the morning the County Agriculture Department is sending someone to help me decide how to set up the farm. At about the same time, I have some macadamia nut pickers coming by to pick and bag as much as they can. Then I’ll take them down to the local mac nut company to sell them. So besides growing coffee, looks like I’m a Mac Nut Farmer too (at least until I plow many of the trees down for coffee).

Although I don’t really have an “Upper 40″, I have named parts of the farm. Upper 40 refers to the “north 40″ or the upper 40 acres of a property.

In order to remember where things are on the land, certain parts of the property lend their attributes to names.

For example:

“Car Park”. When I found this property, there was a junked and abandoned truck on the land. The truck is gone now, but it is clear where it was as that area has a nice open spot where it was.

“The Garage” While not really a garage, there is an old metal storage shed there and I added a new shed next to it. There are some PVC pipes stored there and I just thought the Garage sounded appropriate.

“McDonalds” is about 1/2 up the property (the dividing line between the upper and lower 40? McDonalds is known for its “golden arches” and at this spot on the property; you drive under some tree limbs, which form an arch over the road. The “arches” is a very busy area too with lots happening in close proximity. Within a close area are the arches, a mango tree, a Pumpkin Cherry tree (the cherries are shaped like a pumpkin) and now just today I found an orange tree! J Here I have been living here a year and had no idea I was growing oranges.

I am also working on the new newsletter, which will contain information about Christmas baskets and so on.

So there you go, projects and names and things to do.