\nJust the other day, I spent a good hour revisiting our garden, something I had neglected to do in a while. It then dawned on me how lucky I am to live in the mountains where I can enjoy simple life pleasures like sitting outside and being surrounded by greenery, watching the view thanks to the fact that we overlook the Port-au-Prince bay or, even better, handpick a fruit for my freshly squeezed morning juice or my daily fruit serving.<\/p>\n
Indeed, one of the beauties of living in the mountains of Haiti is that our soil is so fertile that we can grow a wide variety of crops. In Fermathe and the surrounding higher altitudes, planted gardens are commonplace. The area\u2019s abitan are gardeners who grow vegetables that they sell in the public market on Tuesdays and Fridays. We actually drive through that market which so happens to be on both sides of the road that leads home.<\/p>\n
On our own property, we have, throughout the years, grown our own vegetables and, most recently, have turned that garden into an orchard where we grow more fruits than we can count, though that\u2019s not always obvious to our visitors who are always amazed when we list our fruit trees.<\/p>\n
I myself got greatly surprised the other day as I tried to make a headcount of our yearly harvest. I have compiled the following list:<\/p>\n
Citrus fruits including oranges (more varieties than we\u2019ve been able to clearly identify), grapefruit, chadeques, mandarines; peaches, plums, rezen, plantains, coffee, apples, figs, lokwat, guava, sugarcane, malanga, parsley, pepino, avocado, mirliton; aromatic plants: citronnela, melisse, ti bonm (peppermint)…<\/p>\n
In the past we\u2019ve also grown potatoes, a harvest that upgraded my fourteen-year-old palate to more than just fries. And we are now trying to get our piment bouc back.<\/p>\n
Hopefully I didn\u2019t miss much. If I did leave something out, rest assured that you will discover each and every single one of them in the blog\u2019s new column: Lakou Lakay. I decided to devote a special category to our homegrown produce to highlight our atypical produce and help you better understand our rich soil and how we can successfully grow produce that are not typical of our soil like the apples mentioned above.<\/p>\n
My hope is that you will vicariously enjoy Haiti\u2019s orchards through the blog.<\/p>\n
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Just the other day, I spent a good hour revisiting our garden, something I had neglected to do in a while. It then dawned on me how lucky I am to live in the mountains where I can enjoy simple life pleasures like sitting outside and being surrounded by greenery, watching the view thanks to the fact that we overlook the Port-au-Prince bay or, even better, handpick a fruit for my freshly squeezed morning juice or my daily fruit serving. Indeed, one of the beauties of living in the mountains of Haiti is that our soil is so fertile that we can grow a wide variety of crops. In Fermathe and the surrounding higher altitudes, planted gardens are commonplace. The area\u2019s abitan are gardeners who grow vegetables that they sell in the public market on Tuesdays and Fridays. We actually drive through that market which so happens to be on both sides of the road that leads home. On our own property, we have, throughout the years, grown our own vegetables and, most recently, have turned that garden into an orchard where we grow more fruits than we can count, though that\u2019s not always obvious to our visitors who are always amazed when we list our fruit trees. I myself got greatly surprised the other day as I tried to make a headcount of our yearly harvest. I have compiled the following list: Citrus fruits including oranges (more varieties than we\u2019ve been able to clearly identify), grapefruit, chadeques, mandarines; peaches, plums, rezen, plantains, coffee, apples, figs, lokwat, guava, sugarcane, malanga, parsley, pepino, avocado, mirliton; aromatic plants: citronnela, melisse, ti bonm (peppermint)… In the past we\u2019ve also grown potatoes, a harvest that upgraded my fourteen-year-old palate to more than just fries. And we are now trying to get our piment bouc back. Hopefully I didn\u2019t miss much. If I did leave something out, rest assured that you will discover each and every single one of them in the blog\u2019s new column: Lakou Lakay. I decided to devote a special category to our homegrown produce to highlight our atypical produce and help you better understand our rich soil and how we can successfully grow produce that are not typical of our soil like the apples mentioned above. My hope is that you will vicariously enjoy Haiti\u2019s orchards through the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakou-lakay"],"yoast_head":"\n