Mango Trees. Best invention ever.
Mango trees are the perfect creation. The best
infrastructure in northern Ghana for so many things. They are the best designed
tree that I have seen. So multipurposeful.
They 1. Provide delicious fruit. And so many too;
enough for a small business (or full belly). 2. Give far reaching shade. So
much that they house many school classes, and if you pass by a community it is
almost guaranteed that all the men will be sitting under one. 3. Are the
perfect height. You can stand/sit under them, reach for a mango, and still get
some solid shade, never a problem of hitting the head. 4. Provide some life to
the desert. Green all-year round. In the dry season in flat Ghana you can see
lone mango trees kilometeres away, they are the only relief from the heat.
There are 3 in my backyard. All currently bearing
the most delicious fruit. It feels so indulgent to be able to add the most
tasty mango to any meal at the moment, and dream up cocktails, recipes and
other uses for the plentiful fruit. Ghana food, you aren’t so bad…
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| mangoes mangoes mangoes |
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| Ripe for the picking |
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| dam! have to wait for it to ripen, life is so hard... |
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