Showing posts with label backyard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label backyard. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

My host family's magical backyard

One of the girls gave me a tour on Wednesday. Here are just a few of the things I saw there.


Les poules (chickens). They kill them sometimes for eating. Also, in the adjacent pen, they have rabbits (not for eating).




They have a patch of lettuce plants like this in two straight lines.






This is a pamplemoussier (grapefruit tree).





They also raise les beliers (rams). They look just like goats and make funny noises a lot.





Prune de cynthère tree. There's no English equivalent to this fruit, I don't think, but its juice is really popular here. You can buy it at the store, but a lot of people (like my host family) just grow the fruit and juice it themselves so the juice is fresher and doesn't have any additives.

Here's a picture of me standing in front of their papaya tree. In the Caribbean, papayas are eaten as both a fruit and as a vegetable, depending on when you pick them.
Bamboo!

And of course, bananas...

All in all, a pretty sympa garden, I'd say!