This week I've already started harvesting Arugula. Last year after harvesting sweet potatoes, I planted some Arugula to go with my Everglades Tomatoes and Cuban Oregano. As it turned out I had a Saturday Morning Breakfast with a good friend. And one day I decide to make a veggie omelette with all my goodies.
Yes, organic omelette with Arugula, Oregano, Tomatoes, and also I had Rosemary and Basil out there too. It was really the Arugula that was new, and now I save the seeds to plant after sorting soils from the potatoes. It was really great to eat, and I let it flower and go to seed and ended up getting thousands of seeds. So this year, as soon as I had my first bed set with the new potato soil, I got out my seeds I saved from last year.
Yes, two or three rows of Arugula in the front already. Then I started some in the back, next to the papaya after I filled those beds with potato soil too. Here at the right is a picture of the garden bed at Church, where I added some Arugula there too. You can see the big leaves of Basil there in the center too. Those came from Father Curtis's garden last year . . . they were sprouting up all over his yard, so I moved them over here.
There are other little green sprouts in this bed too. Those were the first planting that the 4H Students at the Church did. I added the rest over the holidays, when I dropped by to water what has been planted so far. Interesting enough the Arugula shown here at church was all fried in the sunshine. These beds at the church get full sun all day. The plants in the my frontyard garden only get direct sun for part of the day.
Here in my backyard it's maybe twice as much sunshine, but not all direct, and certainly not all day. So on Sunday when I got home from Church I was starving. I've been fasting from dinner until after the Eucharist in morning mass. So when I got home I thought to make my omelette, as I have all the beautiful Arugula growing here in the backyard that I need to thin out. I know I just dumped a bunch of seeds there, and it's a solid clump of leaves I need to eat. Yes the harvesting is this video above. . . now the second video below is making my morning omelettes. . . YUM!
When I moved into Saint Petersburg, I began a Food Forest. My desire was to grow and eat as much a possible without going to stores at all. . .
Today, I will speak about my favorite breakfast. I love to make a fresh fruit salad. I have Papaya growing in my yard all the time. I can pick these fruits almost year round. This is a young new sprout coming up on the left. And then this is a full grown tree below, with some fruit getting ripe and bigger as they grow. You can see the distinct pointy leaves that are a unique shape all to their own.
This is my side entry walk where everyone gets into my backyard. Yes, the granet walk is perfect for my bike. I just fixed this boarder and filled in the area with sweet-potato soil. Ok, sweet-potato soil is created annually where I fill my front yard with oak tree mulch and plant sweet potatoes. The potato vines breakdown the windrow of mulch into this rich dark soil that you can see all around the mangrove that sprung up here. Yes, I love volunteers that randomly show up in my yard. . . ;-)
When the tree gets big we see the big fruit all green like this. This is perfect for a Green Papaya Salad, which is a popular Thai meal. You can also peal, chop, and cook the white unripe papaya fruit much like a potato, as I've made hash browns and similar meals with this, frying the fruit with onions and garlic, YUM.
When the fruit begins to turn yellow, then you can peel it to find a pretty pink sweet fruit perfect for a fruit salad as I love to make.
Here below is a picture of the fruit I harvested and peeled this morning for my fruit salad. I will always use only Organic Fruit and it can be tricky to find it. As it's easy to have the label on the shelf saying organic, but the fruit there on the shelf are not.
Like along with my Papaya I will often cut up mellons, apples, pineapple and mango. I do have a mango tree in my yard, which is the best. But when the mango is out of season for Florida, I will buy organic mangoes. Here I am peeling this mango for my salad and you can see the label says Organic from Peru. Notice the number too. If the number starts with a "9" then it's organic, no nine, means not organic.
Yes, yummy. So I always chop my fruit into little bite sized cubes. One day I had an AirBnB guest in my house who was from Brazil. As I started to cut up my fruits to make a salad she stopped me.
Yes, I had cut it in half and cleaned out the seeds as shown here below, and she took it from my and sprinkled Cyan Pepper in it and ate the whole thing with a spoon. Wow, that surprised me, but of course I'm always learning more all the time. So now I've learned to add spices to my fruit salad.
YUM, have I gotten into this. Pepper, Cinnamon, Paprika, all kinds of yummies I add now. Then I realized I needed more protein and started to add seeds and nuts. So now my fruit salad is just the best. I could fill a pint jar and that's all I need for the whole day.
Yes, once again I'm learning the best meals and foods for me to eat and enjoy for my health and strength. Of course, I've shared this with countless AirBnB Guests for years now.
One time someone had three little dogs, and rented the tent space for a month. Yea, I figured she couldn't find anywhere to rent with the dogs. She paid for the whole month, at $25/night that was great for me. And I was thrilled. So then I was going to church at dawn and walked outback, and this little doggie came up to me.
Sure I knew I'd see them sooner or later. And then the lady came out following the dog. WOOOW, she was pregnant, like big prego! Wow, renting a tent to keep her dogs was only half the story. But my first thought was a BABY! "What are you eating?"
And she pulled a half-eaten candy bar out of her pocket. EEEEEK! So I told her to cleanup the yard, organize all the tools, then water and tend the garden daily and I'll make her breakfast every day. Yes, I know that my fresh organic fruit breakfast saved that baby. I'm not sure if she ate anything else, but my yard was spotless, clean, organized and perfect for months. And yes she had the baby here, too. . . . moving into a regular room with a crib!
So this is an order form I created for what I make. Some people are allergic to certain fruits or spices . . . yes buy a jar: $10/pint, $20/quart . . . be sure your know everything here is organic and be sure to tell me to be light or heavy on the Cyan!
deeper truths: “We believe that land is the chief, the people its servants,” said Kaipo Kekona, 38, who with his wife Rachel Lehualani Kapu have transformed several acres of depleted farmland into a dense food forest on a mountain ridge.
“Letting a chemical company pollute the island to feed the world while we suffer food insecurity is beyond ironic,” said Autumn Ness, the Hawaii program director of Beyond Pesticides and co-founder of the Maui Hub, the island’s first farm box scheme which connects small farmers and producers to residents.
“What’s stopping Hawaii feeding its own people is not lack of knowledge or skills, it’s the power structure, the ongoing plantation mentality which tips the scales in favour of big ag and developers while rubbishing traditional knowledge. We need to change this narrative because, without radical changes, what will be left of this place in a hundred years?”
Forest families
At Hōkūnui farm in the central valley, 37-year-old Koa Hewahewa and his family of foresters mix generational Indigenous knowledge and modern technologies to repair the damage caused by intensive cattle ranching and decades of pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. restoration project is fundamentally about cooling the climate to return the rains and pollinators – the forest birds that were wiped out or forced to higher altitudes to evade avian malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. (The mosquito line, the altitude at which the insects cannot survive because it’s too cold, has risen drastically due to deforestation.)
The forest is considered akin to an extended family, somewhat unwieldy and unpredictable but resilient and stronger together than apart. The lofty flowering acacia and myrtaceae trees are natural-born givers, capturing fog and rain to distribute moisture outwards like a lawn sprinkler and down to recharge aquifers. While the groundcover plants such as mosses and ferns act like a living mulch and create a healthy ecosystem for all sorts of useful micro-organisms.
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Could you feed your plants without buying any fertilizer?
This is how we feed a garden for free with fermented plant juice, AKA Dave's Fetid Swamp Water. I thought I was clever, but the Koreans were hundreds of years ahead of me.
If there was a fertilizer shortage, would you still be able to grow a garden? Do you know how to turn weeds into fertilizer? Today you'll learn how to make your own liquid fertilizer/compost tea from readily available materials, like weeds, chicken manure, food scraps and more.
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1. Chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius)
2. Moringa (Moringa oleifera)
3. Yuca / cassava (Manihot esculenta)
4. Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
5. Sissoo / Miami / Brazilian spinach (Alternanthera sissoo)
6. Katuk (Sauropus androgynus)
7. Papaya (Carica papaya)
8. Edible leaf hibiscus (Abelmoschus manihot)
9. Cranberry hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella)
10. Okinawa spinach (Gynura crepioides)
Plants available for purchase from Pete’s nursery by visit or by mail.
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Community supported agriculture is one model through which producers and consumers can be more connected. We sat down with Rick Martinez, Founder of Sweetwater Organic Farm, which is thought to be the first CSA in Florida, to talk about his experience with this food systems model.
In this episode, hear about:
- The history of the CSA model at Sweetwater Organic Farm
