food

Caju / Cashew Picking

Our to be Identified Coconuts / Palm Tree

Climbing to Identify Our Palm Tree

Harvesting Caju / Cashew

Watermelon Hydration Time

Making Our Own Peanut Butter

Baizhang

“A day without work is a day without food.”
—Zen Master Baizhang

Our Neverending Papaya Supply

Jay Gordon

“Eat Food, Not Food Like Things.”
—Jay Gordon

Food for Thought, Literally

Ideally we want to eat a whole plant-based diet that is made up of locally grown organic foods that have not been genetically modified and are devoid of animal products.

“The food you eat can be either the fastest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
—Ann Wigmore

Hippocrates

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
—Hippocrates

Baking Our Own Bread

Juçara, Climbing for the Grapes of the Jungle

For the next few weeks, with a lot of practice, I spent developing an effective and safe way to climb the palm trees to get juçara / acai

Indaiá’s Hard Nuts to Crack

Among the many palm trees there is a very large one called Indaiá & they produce incredibly heavy bunches of hundreds of small coconuts all year around

Avocado Season Approaching

The wonderful thing for us about avocados is that they are high in calories and thanks to their short trunks and many branches the effort for us to climb the trees is minimal