IN JAMAICA

Honky honk goose eggs
Sunshine almonds everywhere
Little cute grandma

I’ve been back from India for a little over a week now and I’m trying to think about how I might continue this blog. Clearly my life at home is not nearly as interesting as my life abroad- not that I was living some sort of fabulous fantasy over there, but I was in a place to learn and discover something new everyday. The thing with that though, is that it’s all in the mind (hippy talk)!! It’s true though, and when I keep an open perspective, I realize that I learn things ALL THE TIME.

Take for example my trip to the crazy farm this weekend. My friend Sophy’s mom has a crazy, crazy farm = 70 acres of food everywhere! Beautiful, healthy, organic, juicy, delicious, ripe, STUFF. Strawberries, green bell peppers, melons of all sorts, peaches, persimmons, pomegranates, bitter melon, eggplants, tomatoes, yam greens, goose eggs, almonds, beehives (HONEY!!!), on and on till the break of dawn. Waaa…it was beautiful, amazing, exciting, and inspiring.

During our forage around the garden Sophy and I found a big ass winter melon hiding underneath a big green leaf. It was obvious to us that that shit needed to be eaten so I put on some gloves, got the scissors, and snipped the umbilical cord connecting it to the earth. It is a heavy (a two-hander) and long (foot and a half style) tuberous beast with almost invisible yet potently spiky hair. We were satisfied with our find of such a ripe and ready fruit-vegetable (which one is it??) that I at least, felt a growing sense of smugness towards my natural farming abilities.

When we brought the fruits of our labor into the house for some good eating, Sophy’s mom spotted our winter melon trophy and immediately asked us, “Why did you pick such a small winter melon? It’s not ripe yet!” Turns out we picked a puny f-v. As they ripen they lose their spiky fuzz and can grow to be 1-2 meters!!

So…turns out my ‘natural farming abilities’ is just a non-stop wack attack. So much to learn! Anyway, if anyone wants to come over and have some winter melon soup from a non-ripe fruit-veg, feel free…Below are just a few photos from the cornucopia of splendor- I had to get my nature photography on.

CRUNCHY APPLES

PLUOTS- Super Juicyfruit! Shhh…they are actually PRUNES

ALMONDS- unripe in the fuzzy pod, open on the ground

Now go get your fresh fruit-veg on and listen to the Wax Poetics Record Rundown

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