I remember as a kid I would go up to my great aunt and uncle's house and they would

always have sugar cane just in the house. I don't know why they did that. I don't know why that was a thing, but I do remember

unrapping it and eating, I suppose it was the raw sugar can. I was probably six or seven at the time

and I would go through all their cabins and eat as much sugar stuff that I could so

honestly it could have been anything I would have gobbled it down but it did leave this

interesting memory in my mind about growing sugar cane or just the idea that it could even exist.

How does that product even exist in the world?

So sugar cane is grown for, you guessed it, sugar and we're going to talk a little bit

about how you might grow this at home.

Now can everyone grow it? Probably not, but again it's an interesting thing.

Maybe if you have a greenhouse in a colder zone, it's something that you could give a try.

So let's start off with a couple different facts about this awesome plant.

Popular belief is that the common variety, Sakaram, a fissionarum,

remember that word Sakarin came from that prefix there, Sakaram,

sack.

Anyways, interesting fact, it was domesticated in 4,000 BC in New Guinea.

That is popular belief. Since then, Sugar Kane has slowly made its way around

the globe. We're talking in the Mediterranean, around 700 AD, in the Caribbean and the 1400s,

and now Sugar Kane is a main export of many

Caribbean islands South America we grow it here in Florida Louisiana Texas and

Hawaii and if I have anything to say about it, San Diego, California at the Epic Homestead.

So let's talk about it.

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