Sunday, September 16, 2012

Elliot's Pepper Farm - Jamaican Adventures

A tour of a local farm in the hills of St Catherine

View of the Valley from Point Hill, St Catherine

View from the farm

I had a fabulous and very educational visit during my trip to Elliott's Scotch Bonnet Pepper farm located in the cool hills of St. Catherine last month. Today I'll share some of my amazing discoveries.

The leaves of the Turmeric plant

Tumeric Plant

A piece of turmeric harvested from the farm

Tumeric

The leaves of a Ginger Plant

Ginger plant

The unripe fruit of the Apple Banana Tree

Apple Bananas

A scotch bonnet pepper still on the scotch bonnet pepper tree

Scotch bonnet pepper

Large scotch bonnet pepper tree with green scotch bonnet peppers on it

Scotch Bonnet Pepper Tree

Unidentified Red Flower found on the Elliott's Pepper Farm

Flowers

A pink rose found on the Elliott's pepper farm

Rose

Unripe Passion Fruits on the Passion Fruit tree

Passion Fruit

Two Yam Hills

Yam Hills

Jackfruit on the Jackfruit Tree

Jackfruit

A Thyme herb

Thyme

A Christophene or Cho-Cho on the vine

Christophene or Cho-Cho

This was my first time seeing many of these foods/plants naturally and It was very exciting to see so many foods in one place.