Rode with some friends of Malama O Puna to rescue some native Hapu'u ferns from a timber forest that is about to be logged. The ferns are tree ferns, full-grown will tower over your head. Make beautiful unfurled, furry babies. There were 7 of us in the forest clipping leaves and uprooting ferns which were piled into old dog food and feed bags to be relocated to a forest reserve near Black Sands community. Talking story and enjoying the peacefulness of the forest, the shade, the sounds, the shadows, the smells of cool, damp earth. Ground covered in tiny tiny fern-looking grass, make me want to plant it in my living room floor, so soft, cool, lovely.
After working hard, shared my tasty key lime-lemonade, tangelos and lilikoi, received baked sweet ulu and bananas. Stood around, talking more story with everyone.
Home now with a bag full of fern roots ready to plant around the back of the house under the Ohi'a and Hala trees. Can't wait to have my own little Hapu'u forest.
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