Farm Update

The Fruits of Our Labours

Although most of our trees are no more than two years old, and the mangos are those which have regrown from the stumps of the few that survived the fire, we are now commencing to harvest some produce, albeit in small amounts. And we feel greatly blessed, and most thankful for, small mercies.
Here we see the fruits of our labours being served up for lunch. For those who are unfamiliar with the regime of the farm, following our policy of the "no breakfast plan" which enables the body eighteen hours of rest between meals, and enhances our ability to digest and metabolise the food consumed, we serve only lunch, at mid-day, and dinner at five, thus enabling completion of our food intake by six p.m. This photorepresents one days harvest, which consists in the top left hand corner of Brazillian Cherries, top right hand are tomatoes, in the centre, mangoes, and at the bottom are to be seen pineapple guavas. The mangoes are coming to the end of the season, and will soon be finished. The guavas are just commencing and give every indication of continuing for some considerable time as some of the bushes are loaded with young fruit, and are still flowering and setting fruit, whilst others are only just flowering and have as yet to set any fruit. We also have strawberry and Thai guavas which are flowering and just setting their fruit, with some fruit about half grown. The strawberry guava is about two to three times the size of the pine-apple guava, and the Thai guava about half as big again.
Our lunch is a fruit meal, where the fruits in season are eaten along with freshly grated cocoanut,
a great combination enjoyed by all of our guests. Our evening meal consists of a raw vegetable salad, except for those of our guests who are either on a limited, or special diet, or fasting. This also consists of the vegetables in season.

Conditions on the farm are rather wet and soggy as the "wet" appears to have well and truly arrived with us experiencing a rain depression from cyclonic activity in the gulf. Over the last couple of days we have received about four inches of rain with more to be expected. You may rest assured that we most certainly are not complaining, for this is the time of the year that unless we do have our rains, then it most certainly is not to be expected to occur at other times. In fact, due to the seasonal variations, unless we experience the rains now, the plants and earth do not benefit to the same degree.