Herbs of the Bay Island of Roatan

Herbs of the Bay Island of Roatan. . 75% of this lust forest is protected and 35% are use for natural herbs of medicine. Farming was one of the most important aspects of early Black Bay Islanders, each family had a ground (small farm) in which they produced organic products (without chemicals). In the early 19th century islanders were devoted almost entirely to the production of coconuts, bananas, plantains, pineapples, limes, orange and mangoes. Between the months of January and May, the ground for plating in the black communities were prepared by cutting the underbrush, trees and limning the branches covering the ground with pile of flammable garbage left to dry in the sun, waiting on the first rain in May to begin planting., Bananas. In the midst of 1860 Honduras began making small shipments of bananas from the bay islands of Roatan to the city of New Orleans. In 1978 the bay island receive a hurricane storm that destroyed all plantation, the little bit of bananas that survive, was taken to the mainland of Honduras and they where divided into the mountains for protection, becoming the biggest exportation of Honduras. Green bananas are boiled and fried; they are eaten as a staple food, while the ripe fruit are eaten raw or combined into several tasty recipes such as banana cakes, dumplings and fritters., The banana factory is called Standard Chiquita Banana or the Famous Dole Food Company Bananas.