List Your Fruit

Here's a picture of all the different fruit in the LipsYard house.

Last night on "60 Minutes" Andy Rooney had a commentary on fruit, and ended with a question, "How many fruits can you name?"

Charmaine quickly rose to the challenge, and handed out paper to the class (all two of us.) We made lists and came up with 39! Andy's producer could only list 27.

Here's our list:

Apple

Apricot

Banana

Blackberry

Blueberry

Cantelope

Cherry

Cranberry

Currant

Date

Lemon

Lime

Lingenberry

Elderberry

Fig

Gooseberry

Grape

Grapefruit

Guava

Honeydew melon

Kiwi

Mango

Nectarine

Orange

Papaya

Passionfruit

Peach

Pear

Pineapple

Plum

Pomegranite

Quince

Raspberry

Starfruit

Strawberry

Tomato (don't be mislead by the Reagan administration, it's a fruit!)

Watermelon

On the subject of produce, and more broadly, farming, it's crunch time for Congress to pass the new Farm Bill. There are several small but important gains that we are poised to win if the new bill gets passed, making it an improvement over the underlying bill from 2002. These improvements include provisions that support local and regional food systems, organic production and research, beginning farmers, nutrition, and the environment.