Love. Love this place. I mean love. This is what I live for. After making my rounds at Aaldmon’s Organic Farm, I head around the corner, literally, to Excalibur. My first experience with this farm took me and my hubby on a 2 hour tour via golf cart to experience this 17 acre rare and native tropical fruit tree farm just a few miles from my current haunt.

Molina’s expertise and enthusiasm captured our attention as she drove us around, jumped out of the cart and picked fruit right off the trees they offer for sale. She educated us about medicinal uses, grafting techniques and general advice on growing tropical fruit here in Florida. They are a tropical fruit farm, true, but their primary focus is on providing these awesome and rare tropical trees for sale for commercial or residential use. However, I am now “in the know” and I swing by every Friday just before they close to see what has ripened on their property as a bi-product of these gorgeous trees. Like a kid in a candy store, but better.

It was here that I fell in love with egg fruit (yellow sapote) and black sapote, aka chocolate pudding fruit. Oh yes, I can attest that it really does make superb (stunning!) chocolate desserts.  Imagine my total delight when last week, they had both for sale! Extremely rare to find this selection of fruit in any grocery store, even in Florida. What a delight, walking away with 3 lbs of apple bananas, 6 lbs of yellow sapote, 5 black sapotes and 2 gargantuan avocados. All for less than $25. A crate of oranges at Costco is about $12… a dozen apples anywhere from $6-10! I mean, I will do it, but it’s so nice to have this as an option, too. Grown here. Locally. In my figurative “backyard”. It really doesn’t get better than this.

Check out Excalibur Fruit Trees’ website to learn more.