God has Favored the Caribbean islands with all the important ingredients to survive without greed! The original inhabitant had everything and happy to share it with any one in need. God provided an abundance of trees for all our needs.
The Coconut & Bamboo shaded the edible forest from the hot sunshine, and the bred fruit, Ackee, Mango, Apple & many others shading the Banana, sugarcane , Bushes, coco & Coffee beans. with the ground level plants & shrubs. Then all the root plants available throughout the year.
The Undergrowth was kept in check with the wild chickens, wild boar, Birds, Bees, insects & worms all keeping the edible forest in the best condition.
- ackee (Blighia sapida)
- anatto (Bixa orellana)
- avocado pear (Persea americana)
- bananas and plantain (Musa sapientum and M. paradisiaca)
- breadfruit and roasted breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
- carambola (Averrhoa carambola)
- cashew (Anacardium occidentale)
- cerasee (Momordica balsamina)
- cho cho (Sechium edule)
- citrus (limes, oranges, ortaniques, tangerines, ugli, grapefruit etc)
- cocoa (from which we get chocolate) (Theobroma cacao)
- coconut (Cocos nucifera)
- coolie plum (Ziziphus mauritiana)
- custard apple (Annona reticulata)
- French peanut (Sterculia apetala)
- guava (Psidium guajava)
- guinep and again(Melicoccus bijugatus)
- gungo pea (Cajanus cajan)
- hog apple (Noni) “duppy soursop” (Morinda citrifolia)
- jackfruit and again (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
- Jew (June) plum (Spondias dulcis)
- Ja mangoes (Mangifera indica)
- mammy fruit (Mammea americana)
- naseberry (Manilkara zapota)
- otaheite apple and its magnificent red blossom (Syzygium malaccense)
- passionfruit (Passiflora edulis)
- pawpaw (papaya) (Carica papaya)
- peppers including Scotch Bonnet
- pineapple (Ananas comosus)
- pomegranate and orange flower (Punica granatum)
- pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata)
- rose apple (Syzygium jambos)
- Jamaican red sorrel (Hibiscus sabdariffa)
- star apple (Chrysophyllum cainito)
- stinking toe (Hymenaea courbaril)
- sweetcup (Passiflora maliformis)
- sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
- sweetsop (Annona squamosa) and soursop and again (Annona muricata)
- tamarind and again (Tamarindus indica)
- watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris)
- West Indian cherry (Malpighia punicifolia)
- yam (e.g. Dioscorea cayenensis)
This Tree For Life is far more productive in the Caribbean islands than any ware ells.
Many trees Ber most of the year or more than twice a year. By managing a forest by design, we could out strip any acre production vale without devastating maniacal or pesticide intervention.
“The great poetry of the New World….. like its fruits, its savor is a mixture of the acid and the sweet. The apples of its second Eden have the tartness of experience. In such poetry there is a bitter memory and it is the bitterness that dries last on the tongue. It is the acidulous that supplies its energy. The golden apples of this sun are shot with acid. The taste of Neruda is citric, the Pomme de Cythere of Cesaire sets the teeth on edge, the savor of Perse is of salt fruit at the sea’s edge, the sea-grape, the “fat-poke”, the sea almond. For us in the archipelago the tribal memory is salted with the bitter memory of migration”