Finca Sura

 Garden of Eden

This is Roberto. He and his wife own this beautiful pineapple farm and started it from scratch on an abandoned dairy farm. They grow ornamental plants, cinnamon, cacao, star fruit, coconut and many many more. They gave us fresh pineapple juice, pineapple bread and all the fresh picked pineapple we could eat. This large fruit he's holding is actually cacao - the beans inside are covered with a sweet slime that supposedly is good to suck on.  I thought it was disgusting. 

I'm standing in front of the sura tree - this one is the largest and es más grande, as tall as a redwood! The farm is named for this amazing tree. It's large buttresses support it as the roots are shallow but the buttresses are hollow.

Planting my piña in the Texas row!

We each took home pineapples we picked ourselves.