My Top Tree to Plant in Every Yard in Florida: Moringa, The Vitamin Tree

If I could only choose one tree to plant in every yard in Florida, it would be moringa, also called The Vitaman Tree or The Tree of Life. Moringa is one of the most nutritionally dense foods on the planet and if everyone in Florida grew and truly utilized this one plant it could change our food system! Moringa can be eaten fresh daily in soups, salads, smoothies and direct niblings from the tree. It can also be dried into your very own multivitamin that you can easily travel with.

Moringa is a powerful plant that has been a wonderful friend in my life.

Through my year of growing and foraging 100% of my food and five plus years of visiting and meeting with dozens of gardeners and permaculturalists across the state of Florida, I have created a grouping of 30 of the easiest and most abundant foods to grow in Florida.

This grouping of plants is ideal for laying the foundation for a food forest or creating The Survival Garden. We’re talking about growing a lot of food, with the least work, so you can truly break free from the grocery store!

Our mission is to assist people in attaining Food Freedom — breaking free from the global, industrial food system and growing their own food!

We share with you, our extensive resource good for 30 of the easiest to grow, most productive foods in Florida.

Order Robin’s new book, Food Freedom, for inspiration to grow your own food and break free from the grocery store. Moringa was central to his year of growing and foraging 100% of his food!

Transcript: The following is a transcription of My Top Tree to Plant in Every Yard in Florida: Moringa, The Vitamin Tree.

This is the vitamin tree, or the tree of life, also called moringa. I planted this tree about five years ago and it has given me a lot of life, and others a lot of life. The reason it is called the vitamin tree is because it is loaded with vitamins. It is actually one of the most nutrient-dense foods on Earth.

You can eat these leaves fresh right off the tree, put them in a smoothie or soups. What I like to do is dry the leaves, put them in a blender after they are dehydrated and that makes moringa powder. I travel with that. It is my homemade multivitamin; no need to buy multivitamins at the store because this is basically the multivitamin tree.

You also have beautiful pods coming off of it. These pods produce seeds, and with these seeds you can give them to others and they can start their own moringa trees. This tree was a seed about five years ago and now it is producing an incredible amount of vitamins, of nutrients. This is the tree of life. It is giving life.