Your dream of living in a simple way is a great one.
My thoughts on what you have are similar to Macchiata - you are lucky to be able to pick fresh fruit from trees in your backyard. I grew up doing the same. I had a wide variety of fruit trees that would be laden with fruit and it was something I admired my mum for taking pride in purchasing the highest farm quality and nurturing them in her garden. I had some of the biggest avocados with a sweet flavour, almonds, mangoes, bananas, naseberry (chica in Visayan), lots of othaheite apples (don't remember the Visayan name), limes, guavas, starfruit, Jamaican cherries (Muntingia calabura), sweetsop (Atis), and sugarcane. For my lunches, I climbed trees and picked fruit to eat, and it's something I wish I could do today.
Never give up on that dream of yours, especially since you do like gardening and growing your own produce.
Thanks for sharing this with us:)Hello @laviesm,
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Hi Milly! it’s great that you have access to fresh produce throughout your life. For me, freshly picked fruits taste so much better than store bought ones esp. from the frozen ones. Just thinking of your avocados made me hungry this early in the morning. And boy do I miss guavas and atis. We no longer have them in our backyard. As always, thanks for the kiss and for inspiring us to pursue our minimalist dreams! 💋
You're very welcome:)
Quick question; what's the Filipino name of this fruit?
We have a lot in Jamaica, but the texture in Jamaica is softer when ripe, sweeter, and a darker red, kind of purple or burgundy (maroon) colour...We had 3 humongous trees in our backyard that produced (Otaheite Apples) as big as Avocados...A major hurricane in 1988 called Gilbert uprooted them. I was 12 years old. I'll never forget watching that tree, the last of all fruit trees go... we thought it would be impossible for the winds to get to that root, but it did.
Throughout the years my mother has replaced the lost fruit trees with different ones:)
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It's called macopa here. I think we still have one in the backyard. The one we have usually have pink fruits but I remember seeing dark red ones when I was younger. The ones I've tasted here in the Philippines are not very sweet but they're very juicy and refreshing. Awww it's sad seeing trees get uprooted.. Maybe, you can plant it where you live now?
Yes, I read that the Philippines are two different textures of the fruit. There was a lady who lived a few houses from me who had macopas that looked similar to yours. I always wondered why they were so different.
I live in the UK now so I don't think they would grow here. It's a tropical fruit, and I've read that it's in some parts of Africa too:)