Yes! Ecuador comes complete with it's own Gringolandia! There is an area in Cotachachi where some gringos have bought property and divided it up so there is a whole neighborhood with just brothers and sisters. The main family Linda and her husband Tom have a beautiful home complete with this amazing garden. If you are a gardener you will not believe how big things grow down here. The soil is very fertile because of all of the volcanic activity, so you wind up with beets bigger than your head and carrots the size of your arm!
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| Samantha and Linda in Linda's garden |
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| A homestyle pumpkin |
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| Onions |
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| Chad with a giant beet! |
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| This is the "Taxo" fruit. |
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| Gringolandia! |
Linda gave us a tour of her garden while we were visiting them and sent us home with a few treats. Chad and I tried a new fruit, it's called Taxo. Taxo grows on a vine and is similar to the color of an apricot, but when you open it up inside it has all of these seeds covered in an orange gel kind of like a pomegranate seed. The gel taste pretty sweet but the seeds are bitter. We also got a beautiful pumpkin, giant beets and zucchini.
Linda gave us a tour of her garden while we were visiting them and sent us home with a few treats. Chad and I tried a new fruit, it's called Taxo. Taxo grows on a vine and is similar to the color of an apricot, but when you open it up inside it has all of these seeds covered in an orange gel kind of like a pomegranate seed. The gel taste pretty sweet but the seeds are bitter. We also got a beautiful pumpkin, giant beets and zucchini.
that house is huge
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