EditorDave
02-05-2009, 02:31 PM
Someone on Twitter "invited" me to visit this site. Maybe it was because of my Squidoo site: Bananas - An Appealing Fruit! (http://www.squidoo.com/bananas_appeal) or maybe because they know that I'm particularly fond of bananas!
Not sure why. But I thought this would be a fun place.
My degree is in biology from the University of Guam. And yup, I supplemented my meager undergrad and grad school meal plan with bananas that I could snag in the boonies of the island. (The university was thoughtful enough to have planted bananas, papayas, mangos, and breadfruit trees for part of their "landscaping scheme"--maybe not realizing how convenient these were for those of us living in the dormitories with really tight budgets.)
I just recently returned from a three-week trip to the Philippines--and saw bananas in so many varieties and cultivars. Amazing. Plantains, red-bananas, long yellows... all of them. Discovered new ways of eating them--new recipes, new goodies. Good learning experience.
Now in central California's central valley--and we have neighbors who have bananas--even those that produce fruit! (I didn't think that bananas could handle the occasional below-freezing temperatures here!)
Anyway... since I'm always partial to tropical-style/tropical-look landscaping and architecture (as well as tropical-style/tropical-look foods!), I'm hoping to learn a lot of cool and interesting information here (and if anyone would like to talk or visit about banana production on Guam, Hawaii, or the Philippines--I'd be happy to provide what little information I could help with).
Best regards,
Dave Gardner, aka EditorDave
Not sure why. But I thought this would be a fun place.
My degree is in biology from the University of Guam. And yup, I supplemented my meager undergrad and grad school meal plan with bananas that I could snag in the boonies of the island. (The university was thoughtful enough to have planted bananas, papayas, mangos, and breadfruit trees for part of their "landscaping scheme"--maybe not realizing how convenient these were for those of us living in the dormitories with really tight budgets.)
I just recently returned from a three-week trip to the Philippines--and saw bananas in so many varieties and cultivars. Amazing. Plantains, red-bananas, long yellows... all of them. Discovered new ways of eating them--new recipes, new goodies. Good learning experience.
Now in central California's central valley--and we have neighbors who have bananas--even those that produce fruit! (I didn't think that bananas could handle the occasional below-freezing temperatures here!)
Anyway... since I'm always partial to tropical-style/tropical-look landscaping and architecture (as well as tropical-style/tropical-look foods!), I'm hoping to learn a lot of cool and interesting information here (and if anyone would like to talk or visit about banana production on Guam, Hawaii, or the Philippines--I'd be happy to provide what little information I could help with).
Best regards,
Dave Gardner, aka EditorDave