Aloha.  September 6th 2011 So September 2nd was my one-month in Maui celebration. Pretty amazing! I am really excited. I keep telling those who I have talked to lately, that it is all the things I pictured. Yesterday I moved from a room that I was renting in town(Kahului/Wailuku), to a new place in north Wailuku/Waiehu area. Google it if your interested. The new place I am living is back in the tropical forest, with streams and fruit trees to die for. I remember sitting on my couch in Raleigh, NC making videos, and talking on the phone and writing and wondering “WHY IN THE WORLD PEOPLE DON’T JUST LIVE ON A FARM AND GROW THEIR OWN FOOD?” and I just couldn’t understand why not. I guess it has a little to do with geography and, where you live, but also how interested one is, in nature and the human body. For me that interest just happens to be extremely high and intense. I believe in living with nature and the earth and hope one day to be living with out electricity, rise and fall with the sun(which I have been able to do here quite frequently).  : ).  So in that interest when I moved to Maui I made a decision to only eat food grown on Hawaiian Land. Now I have taken that even further and decided only to eat food that is grown on Maui. I believe when we eat the foods that grow around the area we live, our bodies are more in tune to the natural things that are happening around the area. Also my mother gave me a really good motive and that was, that she heard the natives who eat the native food don’t get messed with by the bugs or the animals, because they have those local and native cells in there blood, and when you eat ONLY that stuff, its incredible. I have not had one bug bite or itch since I have been here, and I have been laying in the grass that is 2 ft tall, with bugs climbing all over me…BUT NO BITES! How amazing is that?!?! So yesterday I moved to a place that is basically in the rainforest. Trees and streams and fruit to die for! It is incredible. 30 year old avocado trees that have more avo’s than you could eat in a life time, not to mention papayas, bananas, starfruit, oranges, tangerines, mangos, liloki(passion fruit), coconuts, and more. Not to mention a space where I can garden green veggies year around, like spinach, kale, collards, cucumbers, celery, peppers, tomatoes, etc. I cannot stress how important it is to me to be close to your food source. I mean obviously it is important I moved half way around the world, to be in the environment of the food that I eat the most. That’s all. I thought about the foods that I liked the best, and I researched where they grew, and luckily most of the all grow in the same place, the TROPICS. Then I moved. I don’t know what all this is supposed to mean, or do, or whatever, I am just writing things that happen. I am not trying to be formal or have a “thing”. I am just sharing my experiences and thoughts. I hope that my writing benefits you in some way. Anyway, so yesterday I learned how to harvest Bananas. They actually grow on these huge “tree-look-a-like” stalks. They look like trees but they are really just ahuge stalk that comes out of the ground. The really important part of a Banana plant is actually not even a foot out of the ground. It is the hub of all the banana stalks. And when you harvest a “tree” of bananas, you actually cut down the whole tree or stalk and get your crop from that one stalk, cause one is all that grows on a stalk and then it is done. Then you chop up the stalk, about 8-13ft tall, after its one the ground and you spread the choppings around the bottom of the banana “hub” and that puts all the nutrients back into the ground so the hub can grow another stalk, 8-13 ft tall for one more bunch of bananas. Pretty amazing. So now when you eat a banana think about where it came from. Peace love joy Joshua Gray Hamilton

Aloha.  September 6th 2011

So September 2nd was my one-month in Maui celebration. Pretty amazing! I am really excited. I keep telling those who I have talked to lately, that it is all the things I pictured. Yesterday I moved from a room that I was renting in town(Kahului/Wailuku), to a new place in north Wailuku/Waiehu area. Google it if your interested. The new place I am living is back in the tropical forest, with streams and fruit trees to die for.

I remember sitting on my couch in Raleigh, NC making videos, and talking on the phone and writing and wondering “WHY IN THE WORLD PEOPLE DON’T JUST LIVE ON A FARM AND GROW THEIR OWN FOOD?” and I just couldn’t understand why not. I guess it has a little to do with geography and, where you live, but also how interested one is, in nature and the human body. For me that interest just happens to be extremely high and intense. I believe in living with nature and the earth and hope one day to be living with out electricity, rise and fall with the sun(which I have been able to do here quite frequently).  : ).  So in that interest when I moved to Maui I made a decision to only eat food grown on Hawaiian Land. Now I have taken that even further and decided only to eat food that is grown on Maui. I believe when we eat the foods that grow around the area we live, our bodies are more in tune to the natural things that are happening around the area. Also my mother gave me a really good motive and that was, that she heard the natives who eat the native food don’t get messed with by the bugs or the animals, because they have those local and native cells in there blood, and when you eat ONLY that stuff, its incredible.

I have not had one bug bite or itch since I have been here, and I have been laying in the grass that is 2 ft tall, with bugs climbing all over me…BUT NO BITES! How amazing is that?!?!

So yesterday I moved to a place that is basically in the rainforest. Trees and streams and fruit to die for! It is incredible. 30 year old avocado trees that have more avo’s than you could eat in a life time, not to mention papayas, bananas, starfruit, oranges, tangerines, mangos, liloki(passion fruit), coconuts, and more. Not to mention a space where I can garden green veggies year around, like spinach, kale, collards, cucumbers, celery, peppers, tomatoes, etc.

I cannot stress how important it is to me to be close to your food source. I mean obviously it is important I moved half way around the world, to be in the environment of the food that I eat the most. That’s all. I thought about the foods that I liked the best, and I researched where they grew, and luckily most of the all grow in the same place, the TROPICS. Then I moved.

I don’t know what all this is supposed to mean, or do, or whatever, I am just writing things that happen. I am not trying to be formal or have a “thing”. I am just sharing my experiences and thoughts. I hope that my writing benefits you in some way.

Anyway, so yesterday I learned how to harvest Bananas. They actually grow on these huge “tree-look-a-like” stalks. They look like trees but they are really just ahuge stalk that comes out of the ground. The really important part of a Banana plant is actually not even a foot out of the ground. It is the hub of all the banana stalks. And when you harvest a “tree” of bananas, you actually cut down the whole tree or stalk and get your crop from that one stalk, cause one is all that grows on a stalk and then it is done. Then you chop up the stalk, about 8-13ft tall, after its one the ground and you spread the choppings around the bottom of the banana “hub” and that puts all the nutrients back into the ground so the hub can grow another stalk, 8-13 ft tall for one more bunch of bananas.

Pretty amazing. So now when you eat a banana think about where it came from.

Peace love joy

Joshua Gray Hamilton

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