Touring the Cocoa Orchard and Hunting Down Fruit (Day 7 of 30)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- This is day 9 of the "30 videos in 30 days" challenge and I'm taking you on a long hike to see the cocoa, the nutmeg, the breadfruit, the bananas, the french cashew, the wax apples, the mangoes and the other fruit on this beautiful homestead. Enjoy!
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Thank 😄 you David for sharing 🙏 your beautiful garden farm. ❤
fermantation of the seeds gives it the chocolate flavour
I want... such blessings.
nice walk...
What a life
nutmeg is crazy looking
we miss you !!.... nice machete throw
dude that machete throw to harvest the breadfruit, was gangsta
And may your thumbs alway be green.
woah meg is awesome looking I didnt know it was used for mace. I 2x speeed this video and I could still follow it, thanks for being clear.
I was amazed by how the nutmeg looked the first time I saw it. Amazing tree. Watching at 2x is great - you're like an android. I like to edit audio at double-time.
I enjoy watching your videos, your farm reminds me of some of the farms here in Jamaica. We also have all those fruit trees here. I have some of those in my backyard too. We use the leaves from the soursop tree to make tea. It helps to settle/calm your nerves if you cant sleep at nights.
Thank you. I still need to try soursop leaf tea.
I bought some Champagne mangoes the other day at a roadside stand after eating them I want to try to get the seed to root so I can throw it in my food forest here in Jax, Fl.
Marvelous! Probably a good idea to plant them all so you can hopefully get something similar despite the genetic variation. If they're polyembryonic, they should produce true to type, though. You can tell by opening the pits and seeing if there are multiple seed sections inside. You'll get a few trees from each seed, sometimes. I love mangoes. Good luck!
Parcha juice rocks bro....
David, is that place called Eden? It looks so wonderful!!!
Is that your garden I don't think is yours . I got my in Naples Florida USA we have durian mangosteen matisia cordata cacao cinnamon sapote Malay apple lanzones elephant fig rollina delisosa apple peach cashuet & more. I just started one year watching my video my friend.
Wow, it's like someone spilled a bubblegum dispenser. Crazy. I LOVE passion fruit.
Growing up in the islands we use to take the leaves of the soursop boil them in some water to make tea, it was had the same effect like chamomile tea
What a wonderful dilemma to have. Too many passion fruits. Juice anyone? Maybe passion fruit preserve.
I wish we had a grocery store like yours. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for the nice comment, Carson. Yeah, this is God's grocery store here. I have to pinch myself sometimes.
Hey David if u don't mind me asking what area do u live! U could make some delicious passionfruit juice with all those passions! Or POG pass-orange-guava juice our favorite in Hawaii!! Awesome looking corn! TFS! I love these walkthrough videos Interesting!👍🏼🌞🌻
We're in the equatorial tropics.
I'm from the islands and totally miss all the fruits that grow there like soursop, plums, guava, papaya, sugar apple, bananas, passion fruit, bread fruit, mangoes etc. seeing you pick up those passion fruit made my mouth water. I really envy you right now. love watching your videos and have learned a lot. It nice to see someone so passionate about permaculture.
2 bad u can't sell the seedlings 2 us- would be awesome tho 4 containers in r frigid north! yeah!!
How does a person score such a great place to live? Great video!
It was totally God's Providence. There's no way I could have worked this out on my own. The string of "coincidences" that led to us ending up here are unbelievable.
Really enjoyed seeing the different types of fruit and like that you explain about them as you go along. Looks like some really good eatin'.
Oh ...so yummy it reminds me my childhood ,my grandpa have lots of fruit tress that includes Cacao tree,my grandma makes chocolate out of it....!more videos to come and more blessings ....!
Wow! I'm so envious of all that variety right there on the property! :) Beautiful!
Thank you, Julie.
The nutmeg looks like an alien object! So cool looking. I love the waxy red looking veins on the outside.
They are certainly strange and beautiful. That outer red portion is also a spice, known as "mace." Two spices on one tree!
I've never seen a cocoa orchard before! Have a whole new appreciation for my chocolate now ❤️
Wow, this is the type of video I've been looking for.!. All the tropical fruits & such. Going back and start @ your first video. Thank you for all the great information 🎈
Awesome video, David. I really appreciate the way you explained everything!
You bet - thank you.
double nutmeg looks like testes
Don't go into marketing. Heh.
I was so impressed with your jungle ninja machete throwing skills until the end of the video. I love this stuff. Yesterday I ordered the Meadow Creature broad fork. I can't wait for it to arrive. There is a big chunk of my back yard that is going to get tilled. I ordered the smaller one with the 12" tines. Which size did you use in that other video?
I usually do a lot better with my machete throwing but holding the camera in one hand messed me up - it definitely shouldn't have taken that many tries. Congrats on the Meadow Creature! I have the 14". The 12" ought to be really easy to work with. Post a video if you get a chance - I'll link to it.
Ok, I do it. I think, I have never posted a video. I will have to figure out how.
I went to Costa Rica in the early eighties on a surf trip, I saw a post for 30 acres on the coast with some kind of cocoa orchards, and a hacienda for 30,000.00! Two problems though, what 20 year old had 30 grand in 1982, and if you didn't live on the property pretty much constant, someone else would, if you know what I mean! lol Costa Rica at that time wasn't very civil to non Tico's, no property rights at all back then.
30 grand in '82 was like 100 grand now. I know the feeling of seeing something amazing, passing it by, then later wondering. Costa Rica has definitely gotten better over the years, though it's a lot more expensive now.
Yep, way better, hindsight is that place would have made a great surf camp! But, those weren't invented yet, I sure didn't think of it.
That is beautiful! You should start a boomerang hobby to help with
those breadfruit. How close are you to being food self-sufficient?
We're probably close. If we add more yams, chickens and some sheep, we could make it.
Naw, I need meat. I went vegetarian for a year once. Never again.
Sheep are less destructive than goats in the orchard - there's a neighbor who's been running his through there. I was thinking of doing the same thing.
I'm low-carb, though, since carbs don't agree with me. Plus, steak. I'm not seeing the link you sent to the
speech. Maybe I'm not getting this interface right.
Thank you.
Muy bueno tu jardín! I have an edible yard on the central east coast of Florida on a barrier island and have been pretty successful with Mango, Sapodilla, carambola, barbados cherry, mutingia, sugar apple, canistel, peach, banana, avocado and citrus. Trying to get Jak fruit, litchi, and cherry of the rio grande to produce. Great inspiration! Makes me want to move back to Costa Rica.
David, I recall a video you did where you mention citrus tree greening and a plant that is supposed to help prevent the citrus greening and was wondering do you recall that video or the plant? Thank you again for this video it is very informative. By the way will you offer eco /Agro tours at your new place at some point?
Guava trees contain a compound that's supposed to deter the citrus psyllids. I may offer tours at some point.
Thank you!
I saw one guy pulling dry banana leaf and at the base of it were a lot of red wiggler composting worms. Are there any worms in your babanas? ))
Not that I've seen - now I'm going to have to go check, though!
David - what cultivar of passion fruit do you show at the beginning of this video? I live in central, West coast Florida and would like one in my yard (want to go permaculture).
I believe it's P. edulis f. flavicarpa.
hi do you make your own chocolate once cocoa season comes along?
Make your own coconut oil?
Good idea - haven't yet. We don't have enough coconuts. My wife has been using them mostly for water/milk in her cooking.
Where exactly are you located? Do you think those Malay Apples would grow in southern Florida?
Down near the equator. And yes, Malay Apples should grow in South Florida.
CR by any chance? Pura Vida mon ami.
David the only thing that blows my mind is the lack of any beautiffull design at all when it come to this Permaculture farms. They look like one big weedy mess. Is that the norm when it comes to Permaculture?
It wasn't designed with permaculture in mind at all. Just a straight up orchard with extra trees planted where there are spaces. It is an agroforestry system, though. If you've ever grown in the tropics, it's impossible to keep the weeds down in the rainy season anyhow - you just roll with it.
What is your purpose at the new location?
Getting out of Babylon, mostly.
It looks like you have made it back to the garden of eden. New videos are inspiring. Thank you for them.
r u gonna buy tbat gorgeous place?
Possibly.
Hi David, what kind of passion fruit is it? what does it taste like? I have been wanting to get one but do not know which one to get. Thank u for the video. :)
P. edulis f. flavicarpa, I believe. Yellow passionfruit. They're more sour than sweet, most of the time, but have a very good flavor.
Thank you so much. You all's new place is awesome. So glad to see u and the misses on the video. :)
Thank you.
Like finding Easter eggs! :-D
Yes!
Soursop is the bomb
Dave, you do have some dry gin in the bar right?????
60ml (2 1/2fl oz) dry gin60ml (2 1/2fl oz) fresh lemon juice2 passion fruits, halved30ml (1 1/2fl oz) honey2 handfuls ice cubessoda water
I will buy some gin ASAP. Thank you.
Is this garden in Florida?
No - we're in Central America.