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    I purposely waited to blog about this until now that it is fruiting! The Rambután ( Nephelium lappaceum ) is a true Southeast Asian...

A bowl-ful of lusciously-crimson macòpa (Syzygium malaccensis), slightly chilled to make it even more refreshing on this hot summer day. ...

 ... the Rimas has fruits! And not just one, but three! I think I've already told the story  to how much length we went through to f...

  It's that time of year when the fruit trees are all blooming and some are even fruiting ahead of the rest! The avocados (above l...

One of the first trees I got acquainted to when we started the farm years back was this tree planted near the road. When we started cleari...

The locals call this tórdan (left), is it what we city folk call latundán ? Or is it spelled la tundán , as in Spanish? We have a number...

In just a little over three years from when we more or less started, a starfruit (Averrhoa carambola,  balimbíng ) seedling we planted ha...

Scattered around the farm, especially on the ravine are numerous trees filled with golden yellow fruits, not many young people know no l...

Ahh, guavas! A perennial favorite, rich in Vitamin C and amazingly versatile.  Next to the aratiles  tree and its fruits, this would be a...

We've started enjoying Indian mangoes  since last weekend! They're crunchy, refreshing, and hardly sour at all: the sweet and spic...

We've successfully grown pineapples! It was such an exciting discovery over the weekend to stumble upon not only full-grown but plum...

Extremely attractive at this time of the year is our Macopa tree (Malay Apple, Syzygium malaccensis ), full of shiny, bell-shaped and rose...

Also fruiting now is our lone cashew tree! This is one among several pilot seedlings we planted soon after acquiring the farm; at that tim...

The "Indian" mangoes are just about to be ready for picking! The trees are heavy with fruit, weighing down some branches with as...

One of the first seedlings we planted is guayabáno (soursop, Annona muricata), another favorite of our family. It must have only been kne...

Practically everyone I know has some childhood recollection or even a favorite story about Arátiles (Muntingia calabura, also known as Dá...

Just in time when we're starting to sniffle because of the changing weather, the dalandán trees (mandarin orange, Citrus reticulat...

Papayas (Carica papaya) are among the easiest to grow! These big, evenly-ripening ones (above) are fruits from trees we planted ourselves ...

In the few couple of years I've been observing fruiting cycles, I'm beginning to notice a pattern wherein certain fruits fruit at...

Less than two years ago, my trusted staff, May came back from her province of Léyte hand-carrying a banana seedling with a trunk already ...