... piece of fruit! Tastes like cotton candy to me. :)) Sooo juicy and so sweet! This is a hybrid of plum and apricot. She has a greenish yellow skin and amber orange flesh! mmmm! I’ll post more information

... lots of tortoises. This whole area as far as the eye can see is reserved and protected for the tortoises that have lived in these converging deserts over expansive amounts of time. You can see some

... right now. This is a much younger tortoise than the last image we captured. She’s absolutely beautiful! Such an honor to watch and observe them in their natural habitat. Thanks for viewing today Appics

... now and this peach wave is my favorite!!!!! Harveting a few dozen a day and eating them fresh. We also intend on making peach mead/melomel. Mead is the fizzy lifting drink of the food forest. ;) This

... and enjoying every last one! These are the Thompson seedless variety. I’ll post a link below with more information about this particular genetic. She’s been a hardy grower for us year after year. Abundant

... are crosses between plums and apricots. Soooo sweet! Pluots are delicious and the “flavor grendade” ....is one of the best kinds! I’ll post a video below from the Nursery that grows and sells these

... on our back porch. We captured this image of them this morning. Looks like they are getting closer to leaving the nest. This is the 11 th year straight this nest has been used by hummingbirds. They

... These ancient ones have been around since dinosaur times! They are native to the Mojave and Senoran deserts of the Southwest. I’ll post some more links below on this fascinating creature! Southern

... some beauties! This particular tree is a Santa Rosa plum. She’s about 11 years old now and grows right next to our house. She’s a reliable and HEAVY producer! One of our favorites for sure. We will

... more information on this particular genetic below. We are growing quite a few different types of apricots but this one has been the most hardy and fruitful so far. Very sweet when tree ripened! The

... The big one in the middle was eaten shortly after this picture was taken! ;) mmmmm! We shot a short dtube video and posted that recently if you’d like to view this tree more closely. As you can see,

... istening to them for a few months now. I’ll post a short video clip below(not mine)...so you can hear the sound these particular frogs make. They start singing just as the sun is setting...every night.

... autiful golden color of the finished oil. We made an appics post previously about harvesting the calendula flowers in our garden. Once dried, we put the flowers into our double boiler and infuse the

Good morning @dtube and Steem Blockchain! We woke up to a gorgeous morning here in S. Utah...with the fig trees offering us some goodies to harvest. Come join us for a quick peek at the trees and their

... They are the size of baseballs sometimes! I split one open so you could see the gorgeous inner flesh. The fig on the right is almost ripe too and her outer skin will darken a bit over the next few

... help us and it sure makes us smile! :)) This water comes from the red mountain you can see in the distance. Sooooo cold and refreshing to drink! Temp is about 45F. The total dissolved solids are about

... Hollow reservoir in Southern Utah. It’s a gorgeous reservoir that is nestled against red sand dunes....near the town of Hurricane, Utah. The dunes themselves create the red sandy beaches. The water

... their juicy weight!! This is as the sun was rising this morning...as I was gobbling as many as I could lol! I said I would do a follow up post when the tree was dropping her fruit and my goodness it’s

... Tastey little buggers...when harvested at peak ripeness! We have these perennial fruiting cherry bushes throughout the food forest. Much smaller than the larger “cherries” on neighboring fruit trees,

... today. She’s a spectacular sight to behold....but the coolest thing...is she tastes good too! The flowers are edible as well as the ripe fruits. We have yet to taste the ripe fruits as this is a younger