Contains information of the types of fruit that grow here on Kumu Aina.
When you think of fruit, you imagine what they are – a colorful orb of juicy sweetness with no power to do much of any thing. In fact, very powerless as you are about to thoroughly consume it. You pick them or buy them, they sit in a bowl on the table and you eat […]
If you are growing your own papaya, there are many ways to enjoy this fruit besides when it is fully ripe. Before we moved to Hawaii and were living and growing papaya in Florida, I had no idea that you can eat this fruit like a vegetable. Other fruit you can eat in the green […]
I had my first raw cacao bean sprinkled with a little cayenne pepper. I was told this is what really is meant by hot chocolate. The seed has a sweet fruit coating that lightly covers it. The seed alone tastes a little bitter. When raw out of the shell, they are soft, not hard like […]
One day a neighbor drove by our farm and stopped. I watched as he hoisted his boy over the fence and the little man ran to the mountain apple tree for some drops. With as much as he could carry, he was smiling and running back to his dad for his triumphant boost up with […]
An avocado is as common as the banana in our fruit bowl. Name five tropical fruits and avocado is sure to be on that list. Or, has it become so common that we don’t even consider it tropical therefore exotic? Lately, I have been obsessed with avocados. I can’t seem to get them out of […]