Growing and Selling Exotic Fruit Wholesale
At Panoramic Fruit, we grow mangosteen, rambutan, durian, achachairu and longan in commercial quantities. In addition, we grow smaller quantities of abiu, jackfruit, pulasan, peach palm, cupuaçu, langsat, Rollinia, lemon drop mangosteen and many other unusual exotic fruits that may be available to wholesale customers.
A Devastating Storm
Hurricane Maria blew away about half of the producing trees on the farm, and we are looking for help in rebuilding this damaged jewel of a place to its former scale. We see that the different federal and state agencies are struggling to be part of this devastated island's recovery. Our goal, with the help of the GoFundMe site, is to replant, cover payroll, and restore the farm to be a self-sufficient source of food for hundreds of thousands of people once again—both in Puerto Rico and in the lower 48 states of America.
I set up a GoFundMe campaign, and we hope that our very ambitious goal of 5 years and $360,000 US will lift the farm back up and get fruit production back to the levels that make this a self-sustaining operation. The money will go to new trees, farm supplies, and maintenance of the older and newer plantings. We have already started new trees from the seeds in the fruit still being produced on some of the achachairu trees, and that will take at least another 5 or 6 years to produce a new crop. The seeds came from the last 70 or so trees left after Hurricane Maria. We used to have 300 producing achachairu trees.
January 26, 2022
We are way behind in our projections due to the pandemic. We lost two years and are stubbornly still trying to obtain thousands of trees and replant. I still hope to accomplish this and am not ready to quit. Between jobs for my crew and the steadily increasing demand for high quality fruit, I am very motivated to keep pushing forward and do not see myself quitting if I can possible help it. If you click on the GoFundMe, you are helping, too.
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Fruit Farm
I cannot see another way to save the farm without outside financial input so I am opening the website to an appeal to any person willing to send money to help. I do not take this step lightly. Quite the opposite—I have found this very hard to do but feel the alternative, losing our people and the farm, is the last thing we want to do. Most of the work of the last quarter of a century is still in place and can be restored.
April 18, 2024
In that regard, it's 2024 and the farm is still here! This is an "off" year and this year's production may be lower than 2023, which was excellent. The trees are of course bigger but climate change, erratic rainfall amounts and distribution over the year and uptrending temperatures are creating some uncertainty. And then, the dire upgrades in the 2024 hurricane season intensity are always a possible impact on production outcomes. Dry air coming off the west coast of Africa helps but that is at best only a partial deterrent.
Fruit should begin in late July this season. Too early to be much more precise.
