Our Joumou vine is doing quite well and found a home growing on the nursery shade cloth. One of the other plants that’s constantly growing in my garden without me ever having to actually plant it. I guess you can consider this squash, cranberry hibiscus, okra, radishes, culantro, sweet potatoes, and many other edibles as a weed in my yard since they’ve been replanting themselves. I’ll probably add some of these blossoms on top of my independence soup this year. The story goes that Haitian slaves were forbidden from drinking soup joumou. It was a delicacy reserved for their white “masters.” To celebrate Haiti's liberation and kind of say a big FU to our former colonizers *cough 🇫🇷, the soup became a symbol for freedom and is eaten by Haitians and a lot of non-Haitians to celebrate our independence. ・・・ #growninhaiti #decolonize #independence #squash #joumou #vine #agroforestry #nursery #foodforest #edibleweeds #haiti #ayiti #getyoursoupon #soupjoumou #growth #blossoms #organic #nogmos #nopesticides #noherbicides #independence #freedom #stopgentrificationofthecaribbean https://www.instagram.com/p/B6nu06xlOfY/?igshid=7evuharo7d9m
