If you're ever in Miami and have a hankering for something exotic, we highly recommend the Fruit & Spice Farm. Located about a half an hour south of the city of Miami, the Fruit & Spice Park is exactly that, a fruit and spice park. They grow all kinds of fruit from all over the globe on the premises. For about $10 each, you can either walk through the park or, at certain times of the day, take a guided tour. We missed the tour by 20 minutes (I was chasing a fresh cup of coffee) so we decided to hoof it through the park, which was actually quite enjoyable.
Before we set off on the concrete path through the park, we were allowed to sample some of the different fruits they grow at the park. There was dragon fruit, coconut, banana, plantains and something called ice cream fruit which was fuzzy but actually kind of had a creamy taste to it like ice cream.
They tell you that anything that hits the ground and you know what it is, you can eat. You can't go picking things off the tree and you can't go eating something if you're not sure what it is (did you know that unless cashew nuts are roasted they are poisonous?).
We meandered through the park, snapping photos and enjoying the late morning steam bath that was the weather.
I did drag Lisa to the back of the park, off the beaten path, to the mango grove but it was totally worth it...at least that's what I kept telling myself.
They even had a section of poisonous plants that were behind a fence. We did, however, see an adventurous rabbit nibbling on the grass back there.
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