Fuyu To You Too!

Although I bust my hump each day at work, weighing in at 101 lbs most days with more energy than both my co-workers, I have found the organic fruit trees on our 7 AC campus to be an amazing treat.  There were golden and red delicious apples and Asian, Bartlett and then D'Anjou pears over the last two and a half months.  We are an organic campus which means that any resident or staff can walk up to a fruit tree there and pick and eat a wonderful piece of fruit with certainty of an organic treat. 

It has been almost otherworldly to be able to experience fruit like this as if I were a kid plucking one of my favorites from the tree and rapidly consuming it!  Actually, sometimes I am amazed at the voraciousness of my enjoyment and the freedom that organic food brings to my experience is monumental. 

This month the persimmon trees have turned coral pink and then dropped their leaves.  The deep orange orbs that remain on bare tree branches are beautiful and stunning.  That deep orange set against a cold winter day-though it has been sunny most days-is magical. The contrast is pure genius from nature.

I had never eaten a Fuyu persimmon and now I can't stop wondering how many I can eat in a day.  The Fuyu can be eaten now and has a very sweet taste with a crispness like an apple.  Unlike the Hachiya persimmon which needs to soften and lose that acidic bite before being eaten, the Fuyu is a squatty orange orb that is juicy and incredibly sweet with an amazing crispness like a fresh, ripe apple.

I feel lucky to be able to enjoy the beauty of a sunny, winter day in California while hauling my tenth cart of leaves and taking bites of an organic Fuyu that might just make my afternoon a little more bearable and a lot more interesting. Magic can be just that simple.