A great birthday session.

 It was a birthday celebration with a difference, and that's what made it so special.

                                     

Janice opens a birthday gift from her son Pierre

It was compliments of Janice, my close Jamaican friend, who came up with the brilliant idea of inviting us all to spend her special day in a totally new way.....breakfast on a farm in Florida.

I enjoyed every minute, though arriving just minutes before they stopped serving breakfast and that's why I never got any corned pork😭.

Sister Josie in the middle

I have never been on a farm in Florida before, and this was a farm with a difference. 

I doubt that it was a typical American farm though, but for me it sure felt like a typical Jamaican farm that just happened to be in America. 

Sorrel plants in the front and yam hills in the back!

Skellions (escellion) like sand.

I haven't felt so at home for a long time, for I am a farm girl from St. Elizabeth in Jamaica, dubbed St. Bess and 'the breadbasket of Jamaica." And guess what, the owner of this little piece of paradise, Sheldon, is a St. Elizabeth man himself! 

He hails from about 10 miles away from where I was born. 

Small world indeed!

farmer/entrepreneur Sheldon.

Like a typical St. Elizabeth farmer, he had a little of everything planted on his six-acre of holding. From sugar cane to coconuts, gungo peas, yam, green bananas, nesberries, guavas etc. 

Think of a familiar Jamaican food/fruit and you find it there.

Apart from growing a wide range of Jamaican food, they cook them as well and have a farmer's market.

The farmer's market 

And what would a Saturday session be without a coconut man?

Yea man, corn pork, run dung, ackee and saltfish, calaloo, boil dumpling etc. All the goodies your little heart could desire for breakfast. 

Unfortunately though, they do it only on Saturdays.😡

This farm is located in Boyton Beach but I really never expected to feel so at home in Florida. 

The buildings have thatch roofs, really cool and homely. 

Hanging around with friends, a great Jamaican breakfast while enjoying the ambiance, dominoes and camaraderie, just made my day. 

I really haven't felt so at home and comfortable for a few years.

Janice and son Pierre versus Joan and her brother Tony. We were equally yolked, so there was no six love dropped today😉!

Dominoes take serious concentration😁

                 Aah. The perfect domino location😁

Yup, sure will be back soon.

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Coconut trees in the background

Elsie ready to party.

Happy guests mill around

The host is in her element

Beautifully organization fields

fever grass

Ackee in front, coconut trees behind