Thursday, April 3, 2025

Banana on our food forest

Fruiting now are Señorita Banana and Pisang Seribu also known as Thousand Finger banana. Two of the 13 banana varities we grow. 😋🍌💕



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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Fertile eggs from free range chickens

Harvesting eggs again from our free-range chickens. 💕🐔🐓🥚










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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Sweet Granadilla (Passiflora ligularis)

Sweet Granadilla also known as Sugar Fruit (Passiflora ligularis). It is known as granadilla in Bolivia, Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, The Azores, South Africa, and Peru. The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a soft sweet taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium. Another Passiflora species on our food forest soon. 😍🌱💕



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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Fingered Citron

Lots of flowers from my lone specimen of Buddhas hand or Fingered Citron. This is only a 1.5 year old citrus plant. 😍🌱🌳



Outplanted this specimen September of 2023.




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Friday, March 21, 2025

Brazilian Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia gigantea)

Flowering time again for my Brazilian Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia gigantea) also known as Giant Pelican Flower. I outplanted this last October 2024. 😍🌱💕




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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Turkey eggs

Breeding season. Hoping for a good hatch of this 2nd batch of Turkey eggs. 🦃🦃🦃





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Bael (Aegle marmelos)

Ripe fruits of Bael (Aegle marmelos). Also known as Wood Apple. This is native to Indian subcontinent, present in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The tree is considered to be sacred by Hindus and Buddhists. I will be germinating all of the seeds extracted from the fruit for future planting materials. 😍🌱🌳




The fruit taste sweet and tangy with a combination of citrus and tamarind.



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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Katmon-dilaw (Dillenia monantha)

This is my 3 year old Katmon-dilaw (Dillenia monantha) with an air layered that I forgot to detach a month ago. This is an endemic species that is already vulnerable. 💕🌱🌳





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Monday, March 17, 2025

PY 1 Big Papaya

Every week we are able to harvest three ripe fruits of this PY1 papaya. From this lone tree a total of 9 ripe fruits already for 3 weeks. I've got enough seeds for mass planting soon. 💕🌱🌳




Still very young, 8 month old tree.



The ripe fruit has a longer shelf life of 15 days even if not refrigerated. Thick meat and taste sweet. Highly superior variety of papaya.



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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Banago (Thespesia populnea)

One of my Banago (Thespesia populnea) is now 2.5 years old and around 9ft tall. This is a multi-purpose medium size tree. 




It is popular in Hawaii for woodworking (commonly turned into bowls) because of the range of colours expressed (tan, through yellow, to red). 😍🌱🌳




Successfully germinated this specimen from a few seeds.



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Deep purple sweet potato

Additional planting of my deep purple sweet potato. I only have a couple of planting materials last January and now finally I can propagate them via stem cuttings. 😍🌱❤️



Best serve if boiled. The taste is sweet and the texture is soft with no fibers.





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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Chiang Mai 60

Time to outplant additional Chiang Mai 60 mulberry. This is very prolific Thai mulberry variety. 😍🌱🌳



Fruits are bigger than most other varieties.




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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Pineapple season

Pineapples growing productively as understory in our food forest.🍍🍍🍍







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