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Yuca/Cassava Cuttings Available For Purchase
I successfully used cassava as a Summer shade crop for my smaller, less UV tolerant plants. In addition to the shade & privacy they offered, the no maintenance plants provided pounds of delicious, sweet cassava😋 which I used as a Russet potato substitute. Below is a video of my very first cassava/yuca harvest: I’ve still…
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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Having come through the coldest winter we’ve had in decades, I’ve determined that it takes a whole nother level of grit & tenacity to grow through this. One week I had a lush, green, productive food forest… The next week of freezing temperatures left my food forest looking like a brush fire had come through😕…
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New Year, Same Focus
The start of a new year prompts us to evaluate our life’s direction & is a great time for any course corrections. Once on track, the challenge is to ignore the noise & distractions & simply focus on your work– what you have specifically been tasked with accomplishing in this life. If you’re like me,…
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Being a Visionary IS Work
While actively re-imagining the small piece of Earth I’ve been allowed to steward, I’ve had to interrogate my definition of ‘work.’ There is an accepted definition of what activities can/should be considered work. The degree of importance society has assigned to this work is often commensurate with the compensation. I rarely questioned this paradigm before…
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Plants For Sale While Supplies Last
If you’re looking to start or expand your food forest, you’re in luck! I currently have Black sapote/Chocolate Pudding fruit seedlings available for sale. They are ready to go into the ground! I’ve also got several Longevity spinach & Chaya/Tree Spinach plants that are primed for transplant🌱 Email me (kjones@mahabafarms.us) if interested. Pickup is in…
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Lesser Known Citrus Tree That Shines
Though temperatures remain warmer than expected for this time of year, many of my citrus trees are unfazed by the persistent heat. My 2 year old Philippine lime/Calamondin tree was the first citrus of the season to begin offering its delectable fruit. The little fruits are deceptively juicy; with a surprising sweetness & the peels…
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Daily Gratitude
The practice of identifying things to be grateful for is one I’ve long adhered to in my daily gratitude journaling. Each day I write down at least 3 things I am grateful for (“Today I am grateful for: 1….2….3…). The worse the day, the more important I believe it is to maintain this practice. On…
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Perennial Paradise
It took a couple years, but I’m now realizing the perennial food supply I dreamt of when I started the farm. I’m not against annual crops (plants that have to be replanted each season). I plant several each season, but the increasingly unpredictable weather suggests to me that the only thing predictable is that the…
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The Insulin Plant
I’m constantly looking to expand my apothecary, so last Winter when I saw a local Facebook Marketplace seller with insulin plants available for pickup, I had to jump on it. The insulin plant (Costus igneus) hadn’t been on my wishlist, but once I read about its traditional use as a tea for improving blood sugar…
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Eye of the Storm
[written on 10/28/25] While tending the nursery on my balcony, my cup of Scotch Bonnet pepper seedlings caught my eye. Nearly 2yrs ago, a family friend gifted me a handful of fresh Scotch Bonnet peppers grown in her mother’s front garden in Jamaica. She remembered I’d recently started a farm & she encouraged me to…
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