Cutting in the first trail

Hard at work blazing a trail onto our property

What an exciting weekend! We had our 3 acres of land staked and this has been our first opportunity to actually access the land by cutting a trail through the dense underbrush with a machete, a shovel and a pair of loppers. The vegetation is thick and lush but fortunately is accessible with a bit of hard work. Dreadknot went ahead with the machete to cut a trail and I followed on behind with the loppers, trimming back branches that stuck out into the trail.

Enjoy our drone video of our land in the raw, only a trail is visible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC9Eef4H0aU&t=1s

We are thrilled with the piece of land we bought and plan to keep the majority of the beautiful indigenous trees intact. The ohia lehua trees are gorgeous and well established along with a few other species we have yet to learn about.

Beautiful ferns abound as well as the invasive mountain strawberry guava which are delicious but pose an ecological threat to indigenous forests as it crowds out the other plant species. So we'll have to work hard on curbing the spread of this plant, originally brought to Hawaii from Brazil.

This weekend we succeeded in establishing a trail so that we can access the 4 corners of the property and we made a clearing that we can camp on whilst working. A true feeling of satisfaction has engulfed us and we are motivated!

Next step is grading the driveway and house pad. Tune in again to see our progress.

 Dream it. See it. Be it.