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Mango
📍 211 Ave of the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312, USA
🗓 Season: May · June · July · August · September
🔍 When is it ripe?
Smell is the best guide — a ripe mango is intensely fragrant at the stem end. Skin colour varies (yellow, red, green) by variety and is not reliable. Fruit yields to gentle pressure. The cheeks fill out and round. Harvest slightly firm for best transport; ripen at room temperature.
The Sailboat bend neighborhood is excellent foraging. There are many fruit trees in front yards with hundreds of mangos falling to the ground. With a friendly attitude, there will be plenty of people happy for you to pick the mangos both off the ground and from the trees. There are also many mango trees on empty lots, but Sailboat Bend doesn't have as many empty lots as other nearby neighborhoods that I've made entries for. There is such an abundance of mangos in this area that many of the trees are highly neglected. The small, fibrous varieties are especially neglected since there is such an abundance of large, delicious, low fiber mangos. It is possible to collect thousands of mangos in this neighborhood alone. I can’t understate the abundance I have seen. There are many other fruit trees in the area including Surinam cherry, starfruit, cocoplum, sea grapes, avocado, coconut, and tropical almond, just to name some of them.
I visited July 2018 and June 2019 and had great success both times.
If you are respectful and friendly this has the potential to be an amazing neighborhood for foraging. Share the bounty!
-Rob Greenfield
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