No nut trees here where we live. But we do have bananas and plantains by the truck load. I am learning lots of different ways to use the plantain. Folks here also eat the bananas green. They peel them and then boil them. Eat them as we would eat potatoes. They are starchy and taste rather plain...
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My husband and I love plantains. We usually let them turn sweet and then fry them in coconut oil with salt, but I also really enjoy making plantain chips out of them when they're potatoey and green. I never knew that people also ate bananas plain! I had the opportunity to go to Nicaragua when I was a teen, and I remember that I'd never had bananas as delicious as those there. :)
At the moment, I've been using lots of bananas as egg substitute in my sweet baking--our chickens have stopped laying for the winter, and so we're turning to alternative ways of making things.
It must be cold where you are. y chickens are still laying. They lay pretty much all year.
I bet it's because you're closer to the equator and the light really doesn't change much throughout the year. Even though we've still had warm days in Missouri, there's only really daylight from 7am to 4:30pm right now. I'm still not used to so little sun, even though I used to live in Ohio, and the days were even shorter in the winter there.
Yes, that may be true. We have 12 to 12.5 hours of sunlight regardless f the time of the year. I used to miss the long summer nights but dreaded the winter when we got darkness b 3:30 or four o'clock.
We thought our hens had stopped laying due to hurricane Harvey -- haven't seen an egg since late August. The storm blew away our fences, so our free range birds became REALLY free range. Then, on Thanksgiving day, one of our girls brought home a bunch of young chicks, so now we know they apparently haven't really stopped laying, just relocated somewhat.
That's such a wonderful surprise! Certainly something to give thanks for. :)