Food Forest Folks LLC

Food Forest Folks LLC Edible landscaping to help you establish your own food security. Big Island, HI

Wow we've been busy as bees this spring, thank you to everyone who has supported our nursery! Now is a great time to pla...
05/03/2026

Wow we've been busy as bees this spring, thank you to everyone who has supported our nursery! Now is a great time to plant with all the rain we've been getting, good luck to all of you who are also hard at work! Here's a list of plants we currently have at our booth at maku'u market:

Allspice
Assam indigo
Bhodi tree
Black sapote
Black turmeric
Bolivian Mangosteen
Calabash lilikoi
Cat whisker
Cherimoya
Chico sapote
Clove
Cola nut
Cupuacu
Dwarf Malaysian coconut
Dwarf red Malaysian coconut
Eggfruit
Elephant ear philodendron
Fan palm
Fenan jackfruit seedling
Giant jaboticaba
Guadua bamboo
Jaguar cacao
Kuini
Malabar chestnut
Mammee apple
Maprang
Mexican Mangosteen
Pakistan mulberry
Peach palm thornless
Peanut butter fruit
Poshte
Pulasan
Star apple
Variegated sugar cane
White pineapple
Yellow jaboticaba
Yellow mangosteen

Holy Maoli that's a lot of bananas! These bananas were all grown with stick and log mulch, no chemical fertilizer or man...
04/04/2026

Holy Maoli that's a lot of bananas! These bananas were all grown with stick and log mulch, no chemical fertilizer or manure was used(except composted humanure on the maoli). That's right, you can grow fat racks by using hugelculture and log mulch, especially on the windward sides of the islands where the logs stay wet and break down super fast. With rising food and gas prices, growing your own mulch and fertilizer is going to become more important for food security. More mulch = more food.

Dwarf maoli is an endangered Hawaiian cooking banana. When fully ripe they taste like a red Cuban, but they are most commonly used as a plantain. They have a beautiful rosy color due to their beta carotene content. They can produce massive racks and are an underrated ally in local food security.

Namwah or awak bananas are the most important banana for food security in our opinion, due to their vigor and disease resistance. They are known to be resistant to bunchy top virus and sigatoka, and relatively resistant to weevils. It's less commonly known that they produce about twice as many keikis as an apple banana. This makes it a much more resilient banana than almost any other variety. Oh yeah and they are known for putting out huge racks.

We will be selling these bananas at maku'u market this Sunday, if you've ever been interested in trying these varieties now is your chance. If you'd like to buy banana keikis of either variety send me a DM or comment below. We have limited dwarf maoli but plenty of dwarf namwah.

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