Berta Valdes's Page

"These are beautiful pictures. What a blessing. Are those corn stalks? I want to plant some in the back area of the property, need to find out where to get the seeds. I just planted some pumpkin but of another variety...."calabaza" Our Lord…"

"We spray copper on our grafted Mamey sapote trees and roses too. Years ago...."

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"Being a victim of the Everglades restoration and the taking of my farm for lime rock mining, I traveled to Tallahassee, I went to the Camacol, chambers of commerce and I went to numerous meetings by the Army Corps, Colonel Rice at the time, Save the…"

"Hi Mary, Have not been able to get on my site.....been out!"

"I live in an agriculture area and seen how people will stop in the fields to help themselves. When one car stops, others follow with no respect to the farmers. Later agriculture police have had to come for the vandalism. There is no respect…"

"The abundance, the quality. When I go to publix and see what is being imported makes me want to cry at the condition of the structured market place. There is no comparison. But then we are the best local. No mangos coming inn to the states can…"

"We have a few varieties.One being the Philippinos with their soft buttery texture and delicate unique taste that a few search for. Others we have are small and succulent to just suck into them with the juice as sweet as honey. What a delight.…"

"It's like Christmas in June, but after a summer storm did not have the time to harvest them before. Ripe on the trees. Sugary butter sweet delights. So many enjoyed and even froze for the plentitude was a blessing for all. This is grace."

"The trees of these delights make a canopy of the property that my grand daughter calls her Cinderella Forest."

"Surrounded by these delights is a dream to share."

"It is hard to imagine the size of these succulent sweet delicious mangoes. Every inch is the most buttery sweet textured flavor."

"You just get one of these in your mouth and crack open with a light snap with your teeth to a succulent delicous sweet as honey delight. They have one seed in them which you just suck out after enjoying all the juicy white sweeter than grape flesh."

"We have huge trees of delicious sweet longons."