Fruit

The Luxury Of No Harvest

by bdunn on December 17, 2011

in Fruit, Nature

Late-fall demands of nature have kept us busy down here on the One Acre Ranch, what with freezes and thaws and exposed water pipes and still probably a couple hundred tender tropical plants complaining of too much cold and then too hot and damp and then cold again. Yet I still find myself actually sitting [...]

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Renewal

by bdunn on November 15, 2011

in Fruit, Nature

Whatever’s left after flood, fire, famine or freeze, nature picks up the pieces and carries on. Like this loquat tree, the central crown of which died in the summer drought (and I still haven’t gotten around to cutting it out and hauling it off). Yet the half-tree that remained alive has burst forth with clusters [...]

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Fall Springs Eternal

by bdunn on September 20, 2011

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By early Monday morning we’d received an inch and a half of rain over 48 hours. Not much by normal standards, but a pretty big deal by drought standards. Really, the brown underbrush even along the river appeared to be progressing to tinderbox stage, and the rain put an end to it. A couple of [...]

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Making A Solar Fruit Dryer From Junk

by bdunn on July 25, 2011

in Food Preservation, Fruit

My solar fruit dryer has been doing yeoman’s duty this summer. I’m still getting two to three dozen black figs a day from the tree out back (and the birds are probably getting another six or eight). That’s about to slow down, but in the meantime, you can only eat so many fresh figs per [...]

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Just The Figs, M’am

by bdunn on July 10, 2011

in Fruit

Southern Homesteading has had its collective head, pretty much exclusively, inside the little black-fig tree out back in an attempt to keep the harvest in the mouths of the humans and out of the mouths of the birds – with some but not complete success. This tree, believed to be of the Petit Negri variety, [...]

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Sudden Figs

by bdunn on June 23, 2011

in Fruit

Two days ago the huge Texas Everbearing-type fig tree/bush in our back yard was dropping fruit on the ground for lack of water, rare because ordinarily it sails on through dry weather. The fruit approaching ripeness weren’t there yet, and had an unusual cream color about them. Fruit from the unnamed tree growing out front [...]

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Surprise Breakfast

by bdunn on May 13, 2011

in Fruit

I finally caught on this morning that the reason I’ve been seeing so many birds flapping around our giant fig tree is because figs are coming ripe, duh. It caught me by surprise because the main crop from this tree ripens in July and, duh, this is May. What we have going on is a [...]

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