Last week they harvested the coffee and macadamia nuts. We walked the farm to pick our avos and such and found that our avos, limes, and even a pineapple were harvested as well. So it will be awhile before we see any more fruit. We think that we will have to pick what we want before the workers do. At least it is quiet now and we can concentrate on other things. Even though we do not do the farm labor, we seem to spend an awful lot of time arranging things, getting bags ready, going to the mill, arranging for them to deliver, checking the plants for beetles, and David has been manually irrigating the whole farm.
Being a caretaker is a lot more time consuming than anticipated. One thing we have observed is the invasive species which are growing, sometimes around the coffee plants or mac nut trees. Some of the pretty trees with beautiful blooms are now very tall and plant little trees next to themself and before you know it there is a huge clump of stuff crowding the coffee. There are these pretty vines with white flowers, but they can climb up anything and get all entwined. A couple of plants I recognize as house plants are trees, or are covering one or two square yards and moving fast! The mango tree next to the house has three different other things growing intertwined, next to, or on it.
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| invasive bush beans |
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| Air potato,widely invasive |
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| Chicken house overgrown with pretty vine |
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| This tree is a house plant in Anchorage |
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| Nice touch to mango tree! There is even a coffee plant trying to grow. |
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