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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Gardening / A Bounty of Florida Summer Produce

A Bounty of Florida Summer Produce

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

summer florida produceI’ve never had much luck growing a garden in Florida past mid to late June.  It just gets too hot and the bugs are so plentiful that anything that does grow gets scorched or eaten by pests.

Enter my fabulous local produce farmers Jon and Debbie Butts.

Jon and Debbie are homesteaders. They own and operate EcoFarm, a sustainable, organic, biodynamic farm in the Tampa Bay area.  I am fortunate enough to have access to the bounty of their produce on a weekly basis.

Jon and Debbie really have a knack for growing produce even under the extreme conditions of a Florida summer.

Yesterday, I got some figs, grapes (yes, they grow in Florida in the summer!) and sand (pineapple) pears from them.

The picture above showcases the vegetables I purchased last week. As I type this, I have the calabaza (tropical) pumpkin in the oven.  My kids cannot wait until I bake some pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie with the 4-5 cups of delectable homemade pumpkin puree I will get from baking this gorgeous speciman.

Who says pumpkins are to be enjoyed just in the Fall?

I also have 3 different kinds of eggplant which make for an amazing eggplant parmesan casserole consisting of all the varieties baked together.

The long white thing at the back of the picture is a cucuzza  squash. They are divine sauted in butter and cloves of garlic. It tastes a bit like a cross between cucumber and zucchini.

Hopefully, next week I can get some okra so I can make a nice, spicy pot of gumbo!

Are you particularly adept like Jon and Debbie at growing seasonal produce under extreme weather conditions?  Let us know about it in the comments section!

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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