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We are fortunate to have an avocado tree in our front yard. It produces a voluminous amount of the best tasting fruit.

I’ll save the avocado lecture here though this evergreen has many very interesting characteristics. One that we have to deal with is that the fruit doesn’t ripen on the tree. In our experience it takes about a week in a closed bag in the pantry for them to ripen to a perfect texture and flavor. I believe our variety is the “Fuerte” in the Guatemalan race.

Luz loves avocados and when she sees one on the counter will often start yelling “cate’, cate’“ which sounds like cafe with a t. This comes from Spanish for avocado which is aguacate.

We have developed a good system where Tomu, Jade and I (and sometimes Luz) climb the tree every couple of days and pick a few for the following week. We also have a fruit picking pole to help with the harvest. Sometimes we just pick up the ones on the ground which have fallen due to the wind…if the birds and ants haven’t gotten there first. When we forget or get behind we have to resort to buying avocados, which are relatively cheap but never as tasty, from the market….so sad.

Avocado ladder and harvest crew ready for work.