My Home Is Where Nature Lives
My favorite place to be is my home in my country. I am awakened every morning by a serenade from the birds living in my breadfruit and mango trees.
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In response to prompt 30 of 52 of DEP
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My favorite place to be is my home in my country. I am awakened every morning with a serenade from the birds living in my breadfruit and Bastard Julie Mango trees. My husband and I feed birds, so they visit often.
My fruit trees bare over and over again in and off-season. I think it’s because I share all of my fruits with everyone who wants some. We didn’t plant these trees. They came with the property.
My Sweetsop tree, I planted myself more than twenty years ago. I planted a Soursop tree too, but it didn’t survive.
The soursop is the skinniest trunk to the left with two green leaves hanging on its side at the bottom. The sweetsop, its relative is the bigger trunk that spread out taking up all of the spaces that lead to the sun’s direction. Both trees were planted at the same time.
The Sweetsop grew and spread out took over and stifled the Soursop. Trees need sunlight to grow. We had to cut the Soursop tree down with a heavy heart because it had no space to move to get to the sun that would allow it to grow and bear fruits. The Sweetsop tree prevents it from getting access to the sun. It couldn’t survive among its own kind. They are family. If we can’t survive among our own family, what will become of us?
Which I find very interesting because the mango tree and the breadfruit grow in different directions allowing each other to exist and be and they are not related. Look closely at the image below, they share the sunlight in unity and they are strangers to each other.
Look at the image below, the breadfruit and the mango tree enjoy the sun together spreading out in every direction allowing each other to grow and bear fruits that I can share with everyone.
I learned that trees are sometimes like humans. Sometimes strangers are better than family.
If these two fruit trees, with no connection, can live in harmony, why can’t we?
My fruit trees make me happy. The Sweetsop and mango trees feed, birds, rats, ants, and humans. The breadfruit feeds humans only. These fruits provide various Vitamins.
Mangoes have Vitamin A. Vitamin C. Vitamin K. Potassium, and Beta-carotene. Folate, Choline, Magnesium.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-mango
Sweetsop: Sweetsop has an exceptional source of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin B1 (thiamine), and vitamin C. Therefore, 1 cup (160 grams) of the fruit contains over 30% of the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) for vitamin B6
Breadfruit:Calories: 227
Fat: 0.5g, Sodium: 4.4mg, Carbohydrates: 60g, Fiber: 10.8g, Sugars: 24.2 Protein: 2.4g, Potassium: 1080mg, Vitamin C: 63.8mg, Calcium: 37.4mg Iron: 1.2mg, Magnesium: 55mg, Thiamin (B1): 0.2mg, Vitamin B5: 1mg Folate: 30.8mcg
https://www.verywellfit.com/breadfruit-nutrition-facts-calories-carbs-and-health-benefits-4773017
It is good to add something essential to humanity with the help of nature.
Thanking Dr. Preeti Singh for her nature prompt.
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