Get the fire cruising
is that wood getting better now?
It’s still, still wet
Still a bit wet
It's been drying a couple of days, but
there was a lot of worms in it when it got split open
A lot of wormholes in it
Ya man
Maybe it was the bush
Could be the bush did it brother
So you've been going buckwild
on the farm with your
plantain
so it must be one of your favorites
Yeah
We work. We plant plantain
We plant food, sir
It’s not so easy. Tough work
People say this and that
It’s not easy man
No, you work harder than most people I know
People don't understand how hard work farming is
Oh
They're not used to getting their own food
and then when you actually see the work involved
even just to get a few things going
Just what they are seeing
If they went to far bush they would see more things
People have to plant food Matthew
If you dont plant food you can’t eat anything
...
if you have a little something to eat
That didn't take long
No man, it was hot already, before
You turn on fire like people turn on an electric stove
Ya man
Like you get it to heat up pretty much as fast, it’s crazy
I mean, we were talking there for, well, a minute
and it's already just ... and ready to go.
It’s crazy for real brother
I can’t cook on
if I cook on a slow fire
It’s like it’s making me crazy, brother
What am I there doing?
When my fire has to
Well, look, you got a double one
A twin
There's a Gemini
Gemini plant and right there
Lucky, lucky
Which happens when they're organic
You get all kinds of different ones
Look at the color on these plantains. These are super yellow ones
Plantain sir
How many trees did you plant the other day? Or suckers?
Boy, I can’t count
A whole heap. The first crop, is how much we planted
The first crop we planted
The first day we did 20 something
and I'm pretty sure Ratty counted 40 the next day that you picked
...
So you've probably got like 60 to 80 suckers going
That’s going to be a lot
We have to count them
...
With the plantiains
we have to go through and count all of them we planted
and see how many shoots of plantain
and see what amount at least
When they come up they will bear a lot
Now Mokko will reverse it and go back around to the other side
And then each of those is going to do another three
suckers each
More than three suckers man or more
So you're going to have a good 200 something
plantain going in this one section
Plantain like f**kery
Lots
It’s a big farm, so
Many people don’t know how to fry plantain sir
You have to turn it all the time
or it will burn up man
Yeah, you usually just do the
ones, yeah? The one turn
[That’s] people
Rasta doesn’t do one turn. We make it cook well, fry properly
Yes sir
Slow farming plantain
Fried
Ripe slow farming plantain
Ripe
It looks good
It looks really good
Yes sir
You think they’re fools?
They’re no fools brother
Put it down and let it cool
and you’ll see what they do with it
Yeah, they'll be all over it
Yeah, but like how it’s hot right now
nobody wants anything to do with it
They'll check it out, but they won't land on it
No sir
So flies are smart enough not to burn their little legs off on a fresh
freshly fried plantain
They are going on the green one, though
They're going on the green one and waiting.
You can do what you want
but don’t mess with my breakfast out here right now
Don’t mess with it Can I get one Grandpa?
What?
Plantain please
I haven’t set them out yet. We’re going to eat
See one taken out there. Look it’s taken out
What?
Can I get one plantain, please
No man
One little piece. Just a little piece. Right there
Don’t trouble it
Take it out for me
Oh, time for eating
It’s hot, watch out
He's gone
I don’t care if it’s hot
Tough man challenge
What do you think?
Hot? Burn your mouth out?
No
Just good?
Yeah
Some people put salt on plantains
I, Rastaman, won’t put salt on any plantain
Make it natural
Ripe
Yeah
Bless up
Yes sir
Hey, get out of this Buggy. You don’t belong in here
Buggy. Move it
Can’t manage this thing right now
Move it
What do you want?
Classic breakfast
Very cool, very chic
You're so fashion forward
Go try to dive in the river like that
No
Put it back
This
Style. Style points Style glasses
Put it back
For what?
Put it back ...
But my sunglasses?
What do you want my sunglasses to do? Put it back up there
Look over here Ratty
Want more plantain?
They've seen it in many episodes before
but an exclusively plantain breakfast
Ras Mokko style, no salt
Slow farmed, organic, no fertilizer
and a whole
a whole heap
of plantain trees about to come
Lot’s of younger ones there bearing too
Mokko always has lots of plantain
You can hear the crunch on the mic, I hope.
This is like a perfect mid-range one
It’s not too
not too savory, not to sweet, it's right in the middle
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You know what I mean?
Because I mean, I love them when they're super sweet and like candy
and I like them the other way, too, but this I swear this is
dead in the middle where it’s a little sweet, little savory
These are ‘turn’
Not well sweet
These are turn plantain
Turn plantain you call it
Just as it turns
That's why they’re not so sweet
It's a really good touch
I’m done now. Good bye
I make that every day
and every month I plant the farm
Every month I plant a plantain or anything
Because I don’t like when all of them come in at the same time
One time it was like stress
They were ripening
but now
You've got to figure out what to do with so many plantain
if they all come ripe at once
But now
Just like when the guests come, so they come now too
I planted them in Corona time
and when Corona has passed and they’re coming up
Guests come to the yard and get them to eat
Whosoever will may come
Buggy
This one is sweet
Get one more