Going Organic

Orleander said:
I always get mango and papaya confused. Which one tastes like a pine tree? I hate those things.
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Neither, as far as I know.

This is what an Indian papaya looks like

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Indian mango:

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We used to go through a few hundred of these mangoes every summer. :D
 
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.
 
Orleander said:
same as gin. blech
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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.
 
Xerxes said:
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.
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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
 
Orleander said:
we used cow manure as fertilizer. Is that what organic farmers use? poop?
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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
 
superstring01 said:
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
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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 :p
Dad got a roaster though, it should arrive soon.
 
S.A.M. said:
You have no idea what you're missing. A custard apple from Hyderabad, Haphus (Alphonse) mango from the Malvan, chikoo (sapota) from Bordi, figs from the Bombay-Pune road, oranges from Nagpur (mandarins, none of those bland thick juiceless dried up pieces of crap with no fragrance that fills the room or a taste to die for). Throw in some jackfruit from the ghats and boy oh boy, you have lived.
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Can't believe I forgot the jamuns. Skip the tough ones with a white pith and large seed, go for the squishy ones that stain everything purple and are incredibly drippy with one tiny seed.

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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)
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guarana, which is made into paste and powder and used in energy drinks, there is a soda made from it
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(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 :)
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carambola

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i think carambola might not be native to Brasil

ok, I'm done for now
 
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