We produce our own fruits and vegetables at Sunnier Palms.  In keeping with the concept of sustainable agriculture, we compost our own green manures for use in gardens.  Just three months after the purchase of our land in August, 1992, we planted our first litchi trees.  Whether you spell it litchi or lychee, it's pronounced "leechee".
Native to southern China, Litchi chinensis is a prized delicacy, a delicate desert with a fragrant, white-translucent grapelike flesh.  The first published work devoted exclusively to fruit-culture was written by a Chinese scholar in 1056 A.D. on the litchi.  Sunnier's first litchi fruit were produced in 1994, and there have been more each season.  Although its use in Florida is comparatively recent, it is famed as a long-lived tree.  An early Chinese account mentions one which was cut down when it was 800 years old.  Mature trees have been found in Hawaii to yield 90 to 140 Kg (200 to 300 pounds) of fruit per year.
Many people in the United States first encounter the lichi as a light desert in Chinese restaurants, but once they get the taste some never let go.  A controversy erupted near the Broward County Government Center, when a local land developer offered to buy the entire crop from a landscape setting owned by the County.  Charges of influence peddling were raised, and to alleviate the controversy, the County Commission decided to bid out out for the sale of the fruit.  There ensued a caustic bidding war between two powerful community leaders.
Horticulture at Sunnier is practiced by natural people in a natural setting of pine flatwoods forest, with scattered live oaks and palm trees.  We do everything we can to live within the beautiful natural environment.

Regard for the land.  Wendell Barry attempted to explain the concept of agricultural harmony, "In a society addicted to facts and figures, anyone trying to speak for agricultural harmony is inviting trouble.  The first trouble is in trying to say what harmony is.  It cannot be reduced to facts and figures--though the lack of it can. It is not very visibly a function.  Perhaps we can only say what it may be like.  It may, for instance, be like sympathetic vibration: 'The A string of a violin . . . is designed to vibrate most readily at about 440 vibrations per second: the note A.  If the same note is played loudly not on the violin but near it, the violin A string may hum in sympathy."  This may have a practical exemplification in the craft of the mud daubers which, as they trowel mud into their nest walls, hum to it, or at it, communicating a vibration that makes it easier to work, thus mastering their material by a kind of song.  Perhaps the hum of the mud dauber only activates that anciently perceived likeness between all creatures and the earth of which they are made.  For as common wisdom holds, like speaks to like."

(Wendell Barry, "People, land and community," in Standing by words, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983)