This is the time of year when loquat trees in Florida are blossoming and bearing their luscious yellow fruit. My first experience with growing loquats was in 1979 when my young husband and I and our young children lived in a house that my parents had bought but had not yet moved into, and they wanted us to take care of it for them in the interim. There were two loquat trees on that small subdivision lot, and both bore a lot of fruit. What to do with it? I loved apple butter, so I thought it made sense to make loquat butter. I did so, and in the words of my snowbird grandmother, my snowbird grandfather loved it so much that “he almost swallowed his tongue” eating it. Continue reading “Serendipitous Sea of Loquat Seedlings”