Craig, one of our founding members, planted a "Turkey Lake Persimmon" ( a native) outside of Dreamers Garden (corner of NW 10th ave & 4th st; right by Hyde & Zeke Records & the new Flashbacks location, very close to Hospice attic). If you have access to inside the garden btw, he also planted several Myer Lemons & Satsumas, both are fruiting now.
(picture here http://www.havenhospice.org/newsletters/VolunteerVoices/VolunteerVoicesSept08_FINAL.pdf )
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http://events.gainesville.com/gainesville-fl/venues/show/481508-dreamers-garden
I was in town last weekend & noticed it had lost all its leaves, but had a ton of fruit dangling. Robby & I shook one & a several ripe & mushy ones dropped. They were very sweet. The native ones are astringent, meaning you have to wait until they are very mushy to loose that "funny" taste. Many people unfamiliar with Persimmons don't know this, as our grocery stores toss anything that becomes ripe (it's nice to actually finally see yellow bananas in the store because the economy!).
There is also so much Rosemary that it spills over into the median (thanks Jen, another founding member!).
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This is really neat... My mom always said persimmons were the fruit of the gods ;). I would definitely like to know more about organic farming.
ReplyDeleteI actually had no idea what a persimmons was until I saw this blog. I work at Publix and I'm pretty sure we had these but only during a certain season I believe but I still hadn't know what it was because I just thought they looked like little pumpkins. After taking the Eco-footstep quiz I would also definitely love to know more about organic farming as well :-)
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful! This kind of information concerning edible landscaping in public areas really should be more accessible. I believe the Edible Food Project in Gainesville has created a Google map that anyone may contribute locations of public edibles to, but the last time I saw it, there weren't very many listings. I'm very interested in fruit gleaning and guerrilla gardening - we should be eating everything our community is producing! I advocate "food not lawns," haha. Most people cannot eat everything the trees on their own property produce anyway, so an organized group of gleaners in Gainesville (I see a cleverly alliterative name developing...) could keep much of this food from going to waste by developing a list of participants who could donate a portion of their household harvest in order to receive portions of everyone else's in return.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to admit I had to look up what persimmons were and must say they do look yummy. I'll also have to throw in here that I had to look up many of the terms used, but that’s what this course is about, right? This really caught my interest though since, I too, am not a fan of the fact that lawns are the largest irrigated crop. (I never checked that fact, but assume it to be true since going to high school in the Jacksonville/ St. Augustine area was a practical testament to the claim with the acres of mandatory green lawns and even more acres of golf courses). It's such a waste of land because its for purely aesthetic and recreational uses and not to mention a waste of water , which is more precious than most realize. I know its been said that the next world war will be over fresh water... not oil and with such wasteful habits one could see why. That being said, since so many seem to be interested in this edible landscaping idea, perhaps something could be pulled together as Lindsey mentioned along with helping with making things 'fruitful'. I'm sure some of the problem is the fact that gardens, trees, etc are abandoned as times get hectic and so on. So, with a list of participants and helpers (sounds like participation point possibilities for future classes maybe) Gainesville gleaners could make a wider impact. Who knows maybe even start a fad.
ReplyDeleteNice, and very relevant to class. I actually had no idea what these were a first, but they do look quite good. I'm probably going to have to go out and try them sometime soon. It's too bad people don't have more stuff like this growing in their yards and communities. Who wouldn't want some good fruit to eat, free and homegrown. That edible plant project seemed really interesting. We should really focusing on cultivating stuff like that in our yards and communities instead of investing so much into useless grass.
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