Inspired by a recent tweet from our fellow twitterers at Vegan Bits, I thought I'd dig up a couple pictures from a past trip to Jamaica. They mentioned the fruit Cherimoya and got me thinking about how much amazingly nutritious food is found on this earth. Just observing health food trends, for the longest time Noni was all the rage, then Acai Berries became the must have fruit and in the past year Goji berries have taken the spotlight. Currently, I feel that goji berries may be fading but have yet to identify they next must eat healthy fruit.

Thinking about all these different "super fruits" makes me really curious about what else is out there. I dream of doing a fruit/veggie tour our the world.

In the mean time I can only reminisce about my adventure to Jamaica, where we import many of the fruits commonly found there.

I was pretty excited to see a mango tree for the first time. While we were down there mangoes were actually my breakfast of choice. I'd casually peel back some of the skin and eat the fruit right off the pit. It was messy but really good.

And every morning I got my bag full of fruit and vodka bottle of fresh squeezed OJ from the same place...Ms.Rose's fruit stand. It was always so good. And this stand was coincidentally diagonally  across the street from the little place we were staying at.

When were in Jamaica we stayed in Negril and had a great time, but I'm hoping to stay in the mountains on our next journey there.

The countryside is so lush, green, and probably full of plants you wouldn't find on the shore.

Oh and I didn't snap any shots but we did get some glimpses of some veggie gardens during our travels. And from what I saw they were much more causal than our typical garden. No fancy rock borders, no raised boxes, and really not too many raised beds. "Gardens" just seem to be veggie plants plopped into the ground in no particular pattern. It may not be fair to say all Jamaica gardens are like this, but it was interesting to see this really casual form of gardening and to see it working! They plants I saw looked healthy.