So its been more than a year since my last post.

Well there has been a lot of changes with A and B Farm in the last year and nine months.  We continued to raise chickens and pigs until the fall of last year.  Then we planted some nectarine and apple trees.  And eventually tried some raised beds.  Everything was working fine until the outer effects of Hurricane Sandy ripped our greenhouse in half.  And then we had family members who got extremely sick, so we had to relocate back to suburbia.  So now we are living in the house we originally lived in when we started our family and it only has half an acre.  This is a big change.

So today's lesson is one that I have found quite interesting and that my wife picked up from one of her friends.  We love pineapples and sometimes pineapples can get quite expensive.  So what is better than buying pineapples, growing them exactly our thoughts as well.  However, we do not live in Hawaii where pineapples are plentiful and grown in fields (not on trees like a lot of people think).  And this is the story of how we are growing a pineapple.

We took the pineapple and cut the top of the pineapple off.  Instead of throwing it away we put it in a bowl of water and let it sit for about a month.  This process allowed the stem of the pineapple to start growing roots (this process is called rooting).  Once the roots were established, we then planted the plant in a pot of soil.  It takes pineapples two years to grow into a full mature fruit.  We have kept our plant outside on our porch so it get the most optimal sunlight to help the growth process, plus natural light is way better than artificial light. 

Now the picture below depicts our pineapple at 6 months of growth since planting in soil.  And make sure your pineapple is fully mature before harvesting due to it can be poisonous if it is consumed.  I hope you did in fact learn something from this post, because learning makes everyday a new adventure.