Pawpaw news! Here you see the first harvest of a Pawpaw tree (North America’s largest native fruit) I planted almost a decade ago.
Sitting in the bowl, they were almost overpoweringly aromatic, and the scent was sweet. Processed, they yielded three cups of pulp and a lot of seeds. The pulp went into two loaves of sweetbread.
And that’s it for this year!
Stay tuned for my Ted Talk about why you should grow your own and not forage native plants.
A shallow bowl and a Pyrex glass measuring cup. The bowl contains several size large black seeds, which are oval and which are encased in a thin, orange, glossy layer of damp pulp. The measuring cup is full of bright orange pulp up to the 3 Cups line.
A bowl of Pawpaw fruit. There look to be about two dozen of the light green, oval fruits, many of which have darker bruises and spots as they ripen. One or two are missing the skin at one end, a little circle where the fruit was once attached to the branch, where you can see the bright orange of the flesh inside.
