Water has long been an element of Bryce McGuire’s art. Lovedream, the landmark 2010 folk-pop album from his band Grecian Urns is rife with allusions to it, including descriptions of redfish prowling the glistening Loxahatchee River. The director and screenwriter’s 2013 Southern short “Jesus Fish,” a story about a would-be religious con artist and the community around him, takes place on a bioluminescent Tennessee lake.
Residents of Florida are no stranger to the state’s different fruit seasons, where trees in almost every neighborhood bear loads of fleshy, seed-bearing byproducts—some recognizable like avocados and mangoes, and some not so familiar. But we may not be as aware of the potential of our natural surroundings to provide sustenance, nutrition and even medicinal benefits.