Malaysia: Desaru Fruit Farm Tour

After our visit to the Ostrich Farm, we were brought to a restaurant to have a seafood lunch and do a bit of exploration and shopping.

We then continued to the Desaru Fruit Farm where we were greeted by Henry Goh – one of the jolly tour guide in the 100 acre fruit farm and planted with more than 100 varieties of tropical fruits.

We were first were brought to the Dragon Fruit area. Dragon Fruit is actually belong to the cactus family. I first ate this curious fruit in Singapore. Dragon fruits are very rich in vitamin C and has lots of anti oxidants.

Image by: Thai-blogs

We continued our tour and learned all about the other fruits and plants they have there.
Bread Fruit Tree

We also have these Breadfruit trees in our properties in Palawan, Philippines. It’s called Kamansi in Tagalog. The fruits can be eaten but not raw – you have to cook it either by boiling or by deep frying. I will try that on our next visit to our farm.

Jambu Air – Water Apple – Makopa

It’s not allowed to pick fruits but the guide will give you a piece once in awhile while explaining about the fruits.

Henry said that when choosing Jambu Air – Water Apple – Makopa , you should look for the bell shaped and not the bigger ones because those have seeds in them.

Noni Fruit

Passion Fruit Flower with bee

We bought some fruits from the farm store after the guided tour – and they were all really yummy!

We have learned so much about fruits and plants in this trip and really had a marvelous time. I won’t mind coming back here…I totally loved it! I will try to apply what I have learned in this trip to our own future fruit farm.

I know they say that Trial and Error is the best teacher but if we can save some tuition fee by learning from the ones that did it before and succeeded why not? Most probably there are still things that we need to adapt to our situation but still it’s good to know what worked for others.

On the sidenote: Ever heard of key man life insurance ? Apparently if a company has a personnel that is more or less holding the company together … he’s employer can get an insurance in case he dies. I think I might take a look at this when we have a good running company already.

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