Contains information of the types of fruit that grow here on Kumu Aina.
The Pineapple Industry has long been making juice from pineapple by-products like shells, cores and ends. At home, we can also stop discarding these pineapple treasures and make a delicious hot or cold beverage. In the early days of pineapple processing they used to haul these bits out to sea and they often came back […]
Even though I live on a farm with over 80 varieties of tropical fruit, coconut is one of my favorites because it is the most versatile. There are just so many ways to enjoy coconut and so many stages of a coconut to enjoy. There are six different ways to enjoy coconuts, the stages are: […]
If you’ve got an abundance of fruit and are running out of ideas to preserve it – a simple solution, which uses lots of fruit, is turn it into wine. Or if you know a beekeeper or you are a beekeeper who has lots of honey or nectar you can turn it into mead. Most […]
Get out your paintbrushes because it’s May and now is the time to start hand pollinating atemoya trees. We have about 60 trees on the farm but if you’ve got just one or two, you can enhance fruit-setting by learning how to pollinate them yourself. The nitidulid beetle, which is the insect pollinator, can be […]
If for the rest of my life, I had only one choice of a fruit jam, that jam would be mulberry, hands down. I could forgo even raspberry, strawberry or grape for this delectable little tree berry. Mulberries even want you to pick them with their willowy branches, lack of thorns and tall stature. They […]