Growing Tropical Fruit Trees in Your Yard w/ Lev Pasikhov

You live in Florida and you have a space where you could be planting much more delicious local food than you currently do. Why plant a garden of annuals when perennial fruit trees can be grown so easily in your yard? Take advantage of the fact that you live in Florida, where you can grow all kinds of delicious tropical fruit that can feed you throughout the year. You might complain about the heat and humidity in summer, but the fruit trees love it. Imagine fresh mangoes, jackfruit, coconuts, sugar apples, avocadoes, citrus, sapote, starfruit, papayas, mulberries, lychees, bananas, plantains, loquats, longans, and many others you may never have heard of. Depending on your location in the Tampa Bay area, you may be able to grow many of these fruits.

Join Lev Pasikhov, Founder of Florida Fruit Cooperative, for a delicious adventure into the exotic world of Tropical Fruit. Borrowing from both permaculture and syntropic farming principles, Lev will teach you how to produce tropical fruit in your yard within a year, and a beautiful maturing fruit forest within just 3 years. Learn about propagation, soil building, watering requirements, and other maintenance, with the goal being as little maintenance and as much produce as possible.

Lev will take you on a tour of the Sweetwater Farm grounds to see many examples of fruit trees you can grow. Some seasonal fruit will be available for tasting. A few varieties of fruit trees will be available for purchase to get you started.