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No Passport Required
I stopped buying pineapples in the store more than a decade ago. Not because I don’t love pineapples, but because I got tired of wasting my money for the same dissatisfactory experience😕. On rare occasion, my store bought pineapples ripened to hardly more than a lightly pineapple flavored sharp, vinegar taste🫢. Most often, they wouldn’t…
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Sold Out of Large Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry Air Layers
First, thank you to those of you who purchased mulberry air layers from me this week🙏🏾 I’m all sold out of the larger mulberry trees, but I have 1 smaller Dwarf Everbearing mulberry air layered tree available for $30 cash. I still have papaya trees ($10 cash each) & a couple of moringa seedlings ($5…
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Trees Available For Purchase
Good morning & happy Monday! I’ve got several air layered Dwarf Everbearing mulberry ($50 cash each), papaya ($10 cash each) & moringa ($5 cash each) trees available for purchase. All of these trees love full sun, are well suited for our native Florida soil & are low maintenance. Plant pickup will be at the Indiantown…
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No Love For Lovebugs
Just as I was becoming fully convinced the only role of lovebugs was to annoy the hell out of me😖, I caught them doing something useful: pollinating! I’ve found myself more tolerant of them since this discovery😝 Watch them work in the below video:
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New Benchmark
Perhaps you see this little bench I made entirely from scrap 2×4 wood that I got for free from a retail store’s trash pile & think, “What does this have to do with growing food?” I built this little bench in a matter of minutes using a single 2×4 from my wood pile & deck…
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Culinary Waste Becomes Foliar Spray on the Farm
Time is my favorite flavor ingredient. Fermentation is a fun & easy way to explore new flavors. I spent time in Japan years ago & discovered that the salty mush that passes as commercial miso paste in the US isn’t what miso paste is meant to be. In the last few years, I’ve taken on…
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Choose Joy
“I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the Earth gives me daily & I must return the gift.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer Have a great week on purpose!
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Mulberry Madness
Mulberry is an unsung South Florida fruit tree hero. As soon as the Winter dormancy ends, the delicious berries quickly drip from nearly every limb of the easy to grow tree. My fingers have been blissfully stained from the sweet berries since the start of Spring & all I know is I need more! This…
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Cardboard For the Win—Again!
Just when I thought cardboard couldn’t get any more useful in growing food, I stumbled upon a YouTube video of a man making biodegradable pots from cardboard boxes. I must say, this never before occurred to me. Now that I’ve tested it myself, there’s no going back! Biodegradable pots are handy for plants with sensitive…
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Farm Helpers At Work
As hard as I work, I can’t grow food without help from my more-than-human friends. The microbes that feed on/in my soil; the wasps that pollinate flowers & hunt other insects; the millipedes that breakdown organic matter for my plant roots to use; the ants that aerate the soil & notably the bees that pollinate…
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