The Little Blue House is a bakery start-up in Hawaii. One of the owners posted a comment here recently and I checked out their page. I think it's a fascinating idea.
One particularly interesting excerpt:
More good news is that Chris did some research, and while a cord of Kiawe wood (4x4x8, so big that it would take two pickup trucks to move) costs over $400, it should take us about a month to go through a whole cord. Someone in Ottawa even claims that the cost to bake bread is only 2 Canadian cents per loaf. But that is Canada, and they have lots of trees... And last I checked? They probably weren't in the middle of the Pacific.
I don't have any idea what Kiawe wood is, but it sounds great. I've never thought about how Hawaiians get wood before. That's a business start-up challenge I'll never encounter.
I don't need wood for my business of course, but where I live, you could probably get yourself a cord of firewood just for fixing your neighbor's toilet.
Posted by steve at January 27, 2004 12:12 PMHow did we end up in the same place?
http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=thelittlebluehouse&comment=10751900742700893#3845
Weird. Well, I am not sure if you noticed but I also do translation work :)
Posted by: Logtar at January 28, 2004 09:17 AMReally--the more the merrier.
Posted by: emily b. hunt at February 3, 2004 06:57 PM