Neither, as far as I know. This is what an Indian papaya looks like Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Indian mango: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! We used to go through a few hundred of these mangoes every summer. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Mangos are the best. Thank God Bush traded nuclear technology to India for the right to export mangoes to the US. For the brief period we still live, it was so worth it.
OMG, Orly... I hate gin too. Though, it's more to do with the fact that it was the first substance on which I got intoxicated (and horribly ill driving me to hang my head out my bedroom window and vomit onto the rooftop over our front porch, the stains of which are still there to this day and enliven every family event with the requisite funny stories of how "little Dan couldn't hold his liquor"). Whatever. My older brother was an asshole. I digress. ~String
I'm really into gardening, and I plan to actually make bonsai tree's of my favorite fruits... But try gardening yourself some food, it's really inexpensive.
The word 'organic' has been diluted these past few years thanks to really low standards that don't meet the original vision. Some stuff is good (ie organic, unpasteurized milk) but most of the time I have to roll my eyes.
How have the standards become more loose? If anything it's the opposite (at least in the USA) since the FDA has been fining and adjusting who and what can be called organic. ~String
Supposedly using manure isn't "organic" because it comes from cows. I have no issue using animal waist. I picked up the pasteurized variety today because -- despite my desire to use green fertilizer -- I think that it will provide the greatest concentration of nutrients to certain vegetables. ~String
You can buy organic beef and eat it, for example, so I can't see what the problem is with manure. I can see if the cows have been eating pesticide laden grass or repeated fed chemicals that will travel into the food. But organic cow poop is organic - in the sense of not compromising food grown with it.
We're making our own coffee, we have 5 coffee trees in the backyard, it's pretty good. We're still working on the roasting though because we don't have an appropriate roaster. The beans need to be cooled instantly when it reaches the correct roast, so we use a blowdrier to cool them down Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Dad got a roaster though, it should arrive soon.
We have that here! we call jack fruit jaca, and jamuns jamelao. We also have these: cashew or caju as we call it (no, it's not just a nut) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! guarana, which is made into paste and powder and used in energy drinks, there is a soda made from it Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! (i guess this can was made for the japan world cup
acai, which we use to make a delicious highly energetic cancer fighting purple pulp Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
cupuacu Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! caja, very sour, great for making juice Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
maracuja! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
carambola Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! i think carambola might not be native to Brasil ok, I'm done for now
