Anyway - the group is very low tech, much of the information is available verbally at the meeting and the paper newsletter. There is nothing wrong with this at all - and this format probably suits the older demographic of the group. Personally, I find it very hard to remember things and I am going to start taking some notes and posting them here from now on.
Maybe some members of the group that don't get the chance to write things down can use this as a useful reference. I'm not going to go into great detail - just some bullet points you can search on.
Anyway, here goes:
Much of this evening was spent talking about Citrus and fruit trees. Here are a few things that were mentioned:
- GOTU KOLA is great for Arthritis - you just eat it like salad (3 leaves a day). Someone brought some in
- Grumichama - great native fruit tree for SEQ - everyone raved about it. Make sure you get 2 (NOT from same clone)
- Jaboticaba - great tree but can take a long time to fruit. I think this is the one that fruits from the stem - again get 2.
- Acerola Cherry - has enough Vitamin C in 1 cherry for 1 day. Used to use it for Vit C tablets before they synthesised it (there is also Brazilian cherry - but this is not native and can escape).
Whilst reading my notes - I found my notes from the May meeting. Here they are for prosperity
- Kelor Tree - had some magical quality I forget what (have to google it)
- Icecream pudding tree - yum
