How to Catch and Eat a Jack fruit...

Jack fruits are native to South Asia.  Its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world,reaching as much as 80 pounds in weight, up to 36 inches long, and 20 inches in diameter.  Here you can see a small jack fruit
 is much larger than my head. 

Here one of the students climbs the tree at the farm to retrieve the fruit.

Waiting anxiously for the scream from above "Incoming!!!"...

And success!  We harvested nine using a screen to catch them and
used them at Legacy school in a number of ways below.

Freshly cut jack fruit that the students and I ate right away.

You can make chips that you dry in the sun.

We roasted the seeds and dipped them in brown sugar for a delicious snack that tastes much like a bean.

Sweet coconut and jack fruit soup is my favorite way to use the fruit.

Aj. Abby