Archive for December 2003
Featured Fruit — Coconut
Coconut Cocos nucifera Coconuts are so common throughout the world’s tropical regions that the exact origin is unknown. The fruit can float for long periods of time, following ocean currents to colonize new lands. Coconuts were the Polynesian way of carrying water to drink on their long, migratory canoe trips. A coconut can…
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Alice Brewer finally got some beautiful little pears off her pear tree Bob Purvis gave her years ago. Neither Alice Brewer nor Lawrence Clark had apricots produce this year. Dan Elliot says his best apple this year for flavor was Simonette 1847.
Read MoreThe Road to Hana
By Tami Schlies I missed the October meeting this year, but with good reason: I was in Hawaii with my family, basking in surf and sun. No, I am not writing this to rub it in, but to share with you my sense of the vegetation and especially the fruit. Our first island was Maui,…
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