Fruits of the Tropics

When I look at all the blogs from cooler climates I am rather envious of all the beautiful colorful flowers and fruits. Here in the tropics the flowers have a stronger texture and more uniform colors. The fruits are either green, orange or yellow.

Most of our fruits are almost ripe but we are leaving for a long exploring vacation so will miss out on the harvesting, and the delicious juices.

Myself and the boys sowed some seeds today so that when we return we will have some ready to harvest.   A lovely Canadian girl using our green house, will care and continue to grow many varieties of greens, vegetables and other herbs whilst we are away.

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Harvesting Sugar Cane

We planted a small field of sugar cane last year and the children have been patiently waiting to harvest some.  The sugar cane hasn't reached it's maturity but the children had a craving for it.

Every week whilst trail riding we pass by the beautiful sugar cane field with the large, deep green leaves echoing into the breeze.

Ocello helping to carry the few sticks sugar cane we harvested.

The boys skilled with their machetes help to peel the outer layer of segmented skin to reveal the inner sweetness.

They enjoy sucking the sweet juice from the fruit of the Sun!

The rest of the juice is extracted by our sugar cane extractor to make a delicious, refreshing juice!

The children were amused with the dry cane after the juice was removed.  They loaded it into their grader ready to be shipped to the compost heap.