Mar 28, 2010 11:24AM

The Golden Chicken

So we now carry Certified Organic Chicken Feed!! Grow, Scratch, Layer and Finsher, Feeding your chickens with an organic nutritionally balanced Feed is crucial for healthy Eggs, Meat and a quality Manure. We also carry Bags of Organic Chicken Manure for those not blessed with a fresh supply, which to me is the greatest resource the chicken produces,  a stinky bag of chicken manure with a little bit of trace minerals is a potent and cheap way to feed your tropical garden, my papayas go nuts when I top dress with a little manure monthly, you need to be careful though the manure is so potent(be warned most chicken poo in bags stinks) that you do not want it to physically touch your plants because it could damage them, especially soft stemmed plants, One way to tone down the potency and smell is to mix the chicken poo with compost and wood chips then cover and let it sit for a couple months, I call this Chicken Gold and the more you can have around the better. I could write a book about chickens and there many benfits, from free ranging to insect conrol for orchards but take my word Chickens are a crucial part of our sustainable future and we highly reccomend them as a componet of your Tropical Garden...

Feb 13, 2010 03:35PM

Bokashi Papayas

So I'm really excited to have learned a new technique to grow choke(lots) papayas, it all starts with kitchen compost and a locally made product we sell called Bokashi(thanks jon), which is wheatgerm that has been fermented with EM or effective microorganisms although it can be made by inoculating any organic matter with a variety of hosts of beneficial bacteria/ microbes. The Bokashi is proven to help speed up composting and neutralize odors. So to grow choke papayas you need a air tight 5 gallon buckets, a pound of Bokashi per bucket, and kitchen scrapes(all scrapes even cooked meat and diary). You start off by throwing a handful of Bokashi in the bottom of our bucket followed by a pile of you kitchen waste them more Bokashi and more kitchen waste as you accumulate it. Eventually your bucket is full to the brim(stuffed with no air space) with your kitchen waste and Bokashi mix, I top it off with some more Bokashi and put the lid on it, immediately I start another fresh bucket inside to get this cycle perpetual, then take your original full bucket outside and place it in the shade for two weeks,  after two weeks the mix has been fermented and you can open the lid, pour out any liquid into your regular compost pile or use it as a plant food but first dilute it 1:100 parts water as it is very acidic. Then dig a big hole  moving at least about 10 gallon of soil out, dump you bucket of Bokashi waste into the hole, mix in a few gallons of soil and then cover it with a few inches of the soil, let that hole settle for two more weeks then you are ready to plant a non-gmo papaya keiki(baby) into that hole. Depending on you papaya strain you should have choke(lots) of papayas in about six months to a year, I just keep digging more holes and planting more papayas as my scrapes build up, you should have more papayas then you know what to do with using this method and it the fastest way to use you kitchen scrapes!!! Im going to try all kinds kinds of planting using this method and will keep you updated!!

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Jan 15, 2010 11:07AM

Aloha Acai

Jan 14, 2010 06:33PM

Roots Organic Soil

One of our Favorite Soils at Eco-Island is Roots Organic. We had to work with Roots and the State Dept of Ag to get this product Approved for sale in Hawaii, its never fun when your soil is quarantined, but it was approved and we now proudly have lots of it to go around. Stop in and check it out your plants wont be disappointed!!


A truly exceptional ready-to-use coco fiber-based potting soil. Roots consists of a base of the highest quality coco fiber/Coir  which is repeatedly washed for an incredibly low EC, and composted for over twenty-four months, and is specially blended with extra long fibers. This soil is amended with only the highest quality organic ingredients including bat guano, premium earth worm castings, fish bone meal, feather meal, green sand, mycorrihzae, glacial rock dust, soybean meal, humic acid, and many more. Already blended with correct proportions of perlite and pumice for excellent drainage and a vigorous root system, Roots Organics potting soil encourages healthier plants and better yields. Comes in a heavy-duty, ready-to-grow, 1.5 cu ft/10 gal, camoflauge print bag; simply poke holes in the bottom, cut off the top, and plant.

Jan 07, 2010 10:19PM

Free Compost Tea Fridays

Aloha, For those of you that have yet to come by on Every Friday we offer Free Compost Tea!! This Fridays All Organic Compost Tea is aerated brew consisting of WormCastings, Humus, Soluble Seaweed, Molasses, Azomite and manyMycorrhizae.

Compost Tea is a liquid solution made by aerating compost in water.It is used as both a fertilizer and in attempts to prevent plantdiseases.
Eco-Island Supply Recommends using the Tea as either a Foliar Spray or A Soil Drench.

Please bring your own bottle/jug, limit 1 gallon a person..

Everything For the Organic Grower!!