Celebrating the abundance, diversity, and health benefits of food that grows on trees
I love the idea of dehydrating fruit using only the power of sunlight. There are lots of electric food driers which can do this job adequately, but it takes a lot of electricity to generate sufficient heat to drive the water out of food. Solar energy can do the same job for free, and sunlight …
Hi, I’m Craig Hepworth. I use this site mainly to celebrate the remarkable potential of fruit and nut trees.
The second purpose of the site is to try to build community on the open web, by experimenting with how independent websites can interact with each other in a ‘social media’ sort of way.
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The Latest Posts I’ve ‘Liked’ on Other People’s Blogs:Fruits Listed by Plant Family (Cashew Family): Mangoes, cashew, mombins, jun plum, jocote, wani, etc
(Custard-Apple Family): Cherimoya, guanabana, custard-apple, sweetsop, sugar-apple, Rollinia, biriba, pawpaw, etc
Apocynaceae – (Milkweed Family): Carissa, Natal plum, mangaba, pitabu, sorva
Arecaceae – (Palm Family): Coconut, pejibaye, African oil palm, American oil palm, Butia palm, maraja palm, etc
Burseraceae (Gumbo-Limbo Family): Dabai, safou/butterfruit, pili nut
Cactaceae (Cactus Family): Prickly-pear, dragon fruit, pitaya, Peruvian apple-cactus
Caricaceae (Papaya Family): Papaya, babaco
Chrysobalanaceae (Coco Plum family): Coco Plum, sunsapote, egg nut
Clusiaceae/Guttiferae (Mangosteen Family): Mangosteen, mammee-apple, charichuela, imbe, bacuri, madrono, cherapu, etc
(Ebony Family): Asian persimmon, American persimmon, chocolate pudding fruit, etc
Ericaceae (Heath family): Blueberry, cranberry, sparkleberry
Euphorbiaceae – (Euphorbia Family):
– (Bean Family):
Fagaceae (Oak family)
Juglandaceae (Walnut Family)
Lauraceae (Avocado Family)
Malpighiaceae (Acerola Family)
Meliaceae (Neem family)
(Mulberry Family): Mulberries, jackfruit, fig, breadfruit, marang, tarap, chempedak, African breadnut, Maya nut, che, etc
Musaceae (Banana Family)
(Myrtle Family): Guava, Surinam cherry, pitomba, grumichama, jaboticaba, wax-apple, etc
Olacaceae, (Olax family)
Oleaceae, olive family
Oxalidaceae (Oxalis Family): Carambola/starfruit, bilimbi
Passifloraceae, passionfruit family
Protea Family (Proteaceae)
Punicaceae, Pomegranate Family
Rhamnaceae, Jujube family
Rosaceae (Rose Family)
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Sapindaceae, (Litchi Family)
Sapotaceae (Sapote Family)
Sterculiaceae, (Chocolate family)
Vitaceae (Grape Family)
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