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FARMER - Mr. Muhammad
Finding My Place in the Soil
My Dad use to always rub his hands in soil..
He would tell me "good clean soil purifies and cleanses the same as good clean water". As a kid I didn't grasp the deep wisdom he was imparting on me. The knowledge and power of the soil and its connection to us as the people of the land. The soil is a giver of life, the soil is a cleanser of our souls..it gives us air to breath, it provides food to eat. The soil is where we shall return.
2020 was the year that my wife and I began our lives as a farming family. We started in the backyard of our apartment in Kaneohe. I had a pretty good green thumb for growing. I've always had small gardens and houseplants but now I wanted to grow food on a meaningful scale to off-set some of our ever-rising food cost and feed my family the best ,cleanest fruits and veggies minus the cancer causing chemicals and pesticides. So a farm was born on Ahuimanu rd....
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Leaving Hawaii
By 2023 we got the opportunity to buy a 20 acre ranch in Southern, Arizona. Back to my home state but away from my wife's place of birth in Hawaii.
WE GREW IN THE DUST. As a farm and family the desert land fertility taught us as a family. It gave us patience, it gave us a closer bond to one another..it also gave us 2 more additions to our little tribe..5 kids in total now. Our nights were spent under the darkest skies illuminated with the fullness of starlight. Our mornings were spent teaching our kids. The afternoons we planted, harvested, we ate with the setting of the sun. Our eyes glared onto the views of lands that once roamed the Great Hohokam Tribes. The land of great leaders like Geronimo, Cochise silhouetted by mountain range. The southwest was a nursery for our creativity and exploration into farming. But it missed something that land, sky and the heavens cannot provide.
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Returning to Oahu
Isolation has its benefits. Isolation from others for to long can make you miss out on the beauty and grace of being human. On 20 acres we were isolated. We had each other but no outside family. No culture to participate in. My wife missed the ocean and the two most important male figures in my life, My father and My Brother had passed away. The feeling was that our time in the desert had finished.
WE WANTED TO RETURN TO OAHU
Farming is our lives now. My kids know which cloud formations bring rain, the gestation periods of chickens...but the most important thing I wanted them to have is the knowledge of self. Who you they are, who their ancestors are. It is their birthright to be raised amongst the sights, sounds and emotions of their race and heritage and we wanted to be back amongst that. We moved back to where we started this farming journey.
We now a farm in Kunia where we are re-building our small-scale farming operation. We wanted to return to O'ahu with all the knowledge and tools we acquired in Arizona to give back to the island lands which give and have given so much to our lives and lineage.
We are beyond exited to be back in Oahu. If you taken the time to read all the way through our little story about our farm THANK YOU! You are the community we would like to build and grow with.
Signup below and lets feed each other knowledge, food and culture.
Mr. & Mrs. Lutu Muhammad
For The Land