Life on a farm canal in Thailand fascinated me not just for the tropical paradise that was home, but for the ready grocery store. So much of the surrounding lushness was edible, the variety and availability amazing. Willa Cather in My Antonia speaks of the wonderful orchards the first generation of settlers put down and how future generations drove past them to the stores in town for the same fruit. This lot was a cow pasture. So far we've put down 7 lychee,8 manago, papaya, bananas, 2 avocado, 2 peach, 1 nectarine etc and are thinking of hedging with blueberries. The ground cover in the front is strawberries and a purple sweet potato.
