Went out to gather some produce yesterday. This is one of the advantage of living someplace other than the big city. I live in a medium sized city (about 80,000), but there is a lot of open space around and a lot of plant life. Something I sadly note a lack of in downtown Manila. Some of the Suburbs are okay, but not like where I am at.

It is the start of the Dragon Fruit season, at least where I am at. A lot of people around here grow them in their yard. I just walk out to the subdivision wall where they are basically growing wild. Picked ten ripe ones. This year it looks like there will be hundreds.

Not just Dragon Fruit. There is a huge Avocado tree, lots of Guava, Bananas, and Coconuts. And if something is not growing near by, there is the open air market just up the road. No one is starving out here, as there is plenty of cheap or free fresh produce available.

One of the problems I have noted here, as well as every other country I have visited, people like to cluster together, rather than spreading out. And the more people cluster together in larger and larger numbers, the more nature gets driven out. There are areas around here, both rich and poor, where the multitude of people have pushed out any viable greenery. So yes, surviving in those areas becomes expensive when you have to import basics, like produce.