By Lee Koelzer | Director
The star apple was another little treasure that was introduced to us at Najib’s farm. It is a sweet fruit local to Asia that is completely unrelated to the apple but has a similar shape only in the essence that it is round.
Evidently, if you slice the star apple in half, the seeds in the center make a perfect star- hence giving this fruit part of its name. Of course we just decided to take bites out of it, so the star design was lost on us.
As none of us had ever seen this fruit before, we dug up about 20 small seedlings from around the parent tree and we have planted them at our farm. The seedlings are nearly as tall as me now, and we have no idea what the market for the fruits will be like as they seem to be a new addition to Uganda. But we are going to try, and if things go well then all of our surrounding villagers will have star apple trees as well.
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