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One of my favourite fruits is the Nam Nam , or katak puru (toad). It’s a short shrubby tree, and really quite pleasing to the eye. I can picture it potted in a large pot and acting as a centre piece in a home garden. The fruits grow on the tree trunk itself; how's that for a conversation piece! All you need to do is stoop down and pluck off ripe ones. A cluster of fruits  A ripe fruit The inside of the fruit.   I like to munch it raw with skin intact.   It is tart, sour, sweet, fragrant and crunchy when freshly...

Finally the kapok tree have fruits and the workers are looking forward to fresh stuffing for their pillows. Up the kapok tree shaking the pods (fruits) down.   Fallen pods (actually fruits)   Close up of pods, the fluffy kapok fibre,  and leaves.   The fibre that will be used to stuff the pillows. Isn't it time to reintroduce these...

If you have a few thousand chickens running around, how do you know if some disease is starting? In antibiotic-free poultry raising, it is extremely important that we catch problems fast.  ...

Was picking some chilies when we came across this small beauty. It is a Painted Bronzeback Dendrelaphis pictus, very common in the farm.   Eats frogs, lizards, snails and...

Some of the fruit trees shall be flowering soon.  Time to make some flowering enhancers.  Fermented flowering enhancers provide potassium and phosphorus, plus microbes to help the plants absorb...