Miracle Fruit!
These amazing mini-fruits are one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever eaten. Here are the farm, we have a couple of these bushes, and at any given time they have a half dozen or so of these small, bean-sized “miracle fruits“, which have a magical ability that has to be experienced to be believed. […]
How to Harvest Loofah
This Valentine’s Day, say I “loofyah.” Loofahs, the spongy skincare product we recognize from drugstore beauty isles actually come from your own subtropical backyard vines (not the sea!). They grow like cucumbers and indeed they’re part of the cucumber – Cucurbitaceae – family. Ideally harvest them once the skin becomes a crispy brown shell. Because […]
