Thursday, December 22, 2011

Fruit fly always finds the fruit :)

I´ve been Wwoofing (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) now in Australia for about 3 months and its been great...especially in terms of Fruit ;) Of course Daintree area is the reason why theres so much good fruit available as it is in the tropics.

Next week im gonna start working in the mango packing. Yeee, so it means im gonna have cases and cases of free mangoes for me to eat! There are big bins of mangoes in packing shed what all gonna be thrown away just because they are too ripe for packing - it means that they are ripe for eating but you cant pack them cos until they gonna arrive to the market they gonna be off, they need to be packed green...But its fine with me :) I will eat them. Heres some mangoes...my boyfriend already works there and brought some.

Its gonna be hard work though. Night shift and 12 hours straight, 6pm - 6am. But it lasts only about 5 weeks. Wonder if im gonna get sick of mangoes by then...

Some weeks ago we discovered an organic banana farm near to our wwoofing farm. Its almost abandoned, nobody wants to work there, the former owner worked there almost 30 years growing, picking, packing, selling bananas and he said he have had enough of them. So the most delicious bananas in Australia are growing there almost wildly, getting ripe and falling off the tree cos nobody eats them - but here i went for rescue ;)

So we got like 50 kg of organic bananas for only 20 dollars! He even said we can get them for free but it felt almost like stealing anyway, so we still give him some money :P If you´ve had these bananas once then bananas from the shop seem tasteless and bad compared to these ones. So i guess i have spoiled my taste a little and i dont know what im gonna do if we gonna leave the area, i just have to get used to the bananas from supermarket again.

And today i just finished my work at another farm where we picked and packed Mangosteens. They are the Queen of Fruit. Quite expensive, since they are so hard to grow. It takes 15 year for the tree to start produce fruit. Very unique and sweet taste. Mangosteens are suprisingly high in calories too, but low in fat, so its great! :P I ate bags and bags of those as well, but about two weeks now i hardly had any. I was simply so sick of them :D

.Bzzz...

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