Fruits of Warm Climates by Julia Morton - An Economic Botanist's Legacy
Green bananas just two days ago - ripened into the lovely fruits, below I'd love to share a wonderful resource with you. This is for all who live in warm climates and who love to grow their own. I just harvested some rare small bananas from my garden today (unknown variety) and received an email query from a Guild member, asking for an ID on a sour orange someone had given her. She intends to macerate the skin in some fixed oil. I sent her the link with a joke - more info than you ever need to know! Yummy hand of organic small bananas harvested today, Dec. 27, 2011 in Miami - some missing because the cook had dibs. In 1977/78, as I was in my senior year at the University of California, Riverside, one of the world's great think tanks, I asked my major professor, Dr. Gene Anderson, if I could obtain a change of major from anthropology (ethnobotany), which I was working on under him, to economic botany, since I felt closely aligned with...