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Things are growing and beginning to produce at the Back 2 Eden farm!\u00a0 \u00a0The jakfruit trees are growing beyond their wind protection sacks.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0 dragon fruit are blooming and we’re getting lemons, from a tiny tree!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>As the unusual fruit start coming, we’ll be giving taste tests to see if we can get people excited about growing them themselves.\u00a0 \u00a0Sometimes they’ll like it, sometimes not.\u00a0 I’m not sure Gary was especially excited about the taste he had from the strawberry tree.\u00a0 At least it wasn’t a durian!<\/p>\n

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