We opened our farm to visitors during the Succoth holiday and we had such a great response. We had visitors from Beit Shemesh, Modiin, Rechovot, Jerusalem, and a few other places.
Here’s some of what we showed our visitors:
First stop. We introduced our visitors to the blue java banana. Everyone got a chance to taste this very special fruit and learn how the banana grows and walks. Although it looks like a tree, the banana is not a tree because its stem doesn’t contain any woody tissue. So technically a banana isn’t a fruit because it doesn’t grow on a tree. It’s an herb!
Sheep, goats, chickens, pheasants, ducks….
I love this part of the tour. Some visitors jump right in, pet the goats, run after the ducks and laugh with the geese. Others are a little tentative about the idea, but in the end everyone spends time petting the sheep and goats and seeing the birds.
After walking around the olive, macadamia, avocado and orange trees, it’s time to taste the delicious and sweet Isabella grape. The grape is small and has a seed. The Isabella is an American grape from South Carolina.
Guava is a fruit that people either love or hate. I love it and I love the smell. All our visitors tasted the guava, some for the first time. Guava is high in vitamin C and in addition to lots of other benefits, it’s supposed to help your eyesight.
These 2 leaves add very different and delicious tastes to soups and stews. We gave everyone a few of them to take home and try.
I thought the Curry leaf was spelled as Keri. I got the use right, it’s great in Indian recipes. I also learned you can fry it with onions and I’m planning on trying that next.
We grow all 4 species. We sell the the willow (aravot) and myrtle(hadas). All our visitors saw how they grow, how we cut them, and brought some home.
Another snack for our hungry visitors. This fruit from Madagascar is a little different but most everyone seemed to like it.
And that was not all...Our visitors tasted carob, the peanut butter fruit, and of course pomegranates. At the end everyone had a chance to pick pomegranates as well.
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