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Recent news from Rachel and Mark

Posted in Eugene, OR, Hawaii, tagged , , , on June 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Aloha friends and family!!

It has been over a year since I posted, so I figured that it is about time that I send an update. We still, currently, have 12 acres of land in on the Big Island of Hawaii. In February of 2023, we bought the house and 3 acres next door to our 9 acres and it has been great to be in a house with plumbing and electricity! The land is almost a mile off of pavement. As stated in our previous post, earning money to support ourselves and make the world a beautiful place is important but seems to be difficult on the Big Island. We are currently considering selling our land to move somewhere where we can accomplish our goals more fully.

We are dreaming big, and considering/praying/looking for land in/around Eugene, OR. We have connected with Susanna Meyer to see if we want to join together so that we can build the following: home, school, agro-forestry/food forest/garden, chapel, guest rooms, a summer camp, an Arts Center, the list goes on and on!! The focus would be on healing, growth, sustainability, participation, and learning. The future homes are for staff and their families, a few foster children, a few applicants from Embraced Fully, students and teachers of permaculture, Christian Science nursing guests, friends and family visiting from afar, and wedding guests that come to use the chapel for their wedding. Christian Science is the foundation for everything done on the property. Please feel free to leave a comment here or email me at rachelannamcclintick@gmail.com if you are interested in participating in any part of the process.

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Day four progress pictures update!

Posted in Hawaii, tagged , , , , , , on May 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The greens are making progress day by day!! There are about six or eight tiny little beet greens coming up!! such a beautiful color and so exciting! 😄

Broccoli, day 4
Kohlrabi, day 4
Beets, day 4. The white that you see are root hairs, not mold. 
Red acre cabbage with radish heart in the center, day 4

All four of these trays were started on 5/18, and I hope that they are ready for Saturday’s event, although it’s quite questionable if the beets will be ready 😄. For now they’re still weighted, meaning that there’s a tray on top of the soil with weights on the tray so they can send down roots before they send up greens.

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ANOTHER big day!

Posted in Hawaii, tagged , , on June 24, 2013| 2 Comments »

Yesterday was Sunday. We had a nice church service and our friend Glenn Johnson from 13th Church in LA was there at the Hilo Society. Below is a list in order of where we went/what we did on Sunday:
KTA (laundry soap)
Laundromat (4 loads)
Church
Gas
Lunch
Credit Union
Bike store (unplanned stop to see what they carried)
Home Depot (4 plywood, 13 8′ 2x4s, 2 16′ 2×4, 2 kinds of nails)
O’Reilly’s (tye rod ends for our truck)
Keaau Natural Foods (veggies)
Kurtistown PO
Kurtistown General Store (fruit)
Home

We got home around 4 pm. We did some work trying to level the pallets that we put in place on Saturday but realized that the pallets were not supporting the 2x4s. We met a contractor, Rob, in Home Depot who lives 2 blocks away. We called him at 8:40 pm and he happily agreed to come help with the project.

MONDAY MORNING:
Up at 5:30 am. Began work right away cutting Ohia trees. Stopped for breakfast at 7 or 8 am. Later stopped for lunch around 11:30/12. We had finished cutting the Ohias from the drive (but they all still need to be moved).

Rob showed up just as we had finished our salad. As discussed the night before, on his way to our place, Rob stopped at Home Depot and picked up 6 80lb support piers and 2 8’4x4s. He helped us build a solid 8’x 16′ platform for 3 hours (12:30-3:30 pm).

The third major project of today was the migration of “Max” and the rest of our “camp” to the new area. While the platform was getting built and nailed down, my job was to empty Max out except for the full size plywood box/bed that Mark built in ’06. While waiting for help to move the bed, we dismantled Max. Our very good neighbor friend named Andrew helped us move the bed and reassemble the structure in the dark!! After many thanks and Andrew left, Mark and I worked quickly to put the food and tool boxes, chairs, and other things on the platform under the tarp. JUST AS WE WERE DOING SO, it started to sprinkle! The precipitation lasted only a few seconds, but still, we were amazed and grateful that it never sprinkled or rained during the building of the platform or migration of Max. The tarp went on and I checked the phone for the time and it was dead. We have taken to eating meals in the truck (comfortable chairs, the armrest/console serves as a fine table for our salad bowl, windows, mosquito protection, etc). So I plugged in at 9:25 and the phone resuscitated at 9:28 pm. We ate our delicious spinach, mung bean sprouts, sprouted lentils and other legumes, dried cranberries, raisins, and sunflower seeds salad. We have just now reached 100% charge on our phone and it is 11:29 pm. Time to brush teeth. Tomorrow, Rod will be here between 8-9 am w/ his machine to clear our drive. Love you all!

Ps. A big thank you to Andy McVey for the headlamp and flashlight–we use them both EVERY night! Thanks also to Jennifer for the care package! We are so grateful!!

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