Papayas, mangoes, coconuts and bananas – walking through a jungle and seeing things like that makes you think you can’t possibly still be in the U.S. But you most assuredly are, in Southwest Florida, near Fort Myers, in fact.
What would really surprise you is to see these things growing together – like right on top of each other – and thriving without any fertilizer or pesticide or even any (gasp!) water.
Once upon a time, Matthew Reece was a civil engineer by trade. That life proved unsatisfying. A change in the way he ate changed all the rest of it, too. Now Reece is practicing organic, regenerative agroforestry, operating a nursery and harvesting fruit for a variety of markets.
