Has a background in healthcare/biological sciences and decades of fruit-growing experience in tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate regions of mother earth. Growing fruit trees has always been easy, until he and daughter(Patricia) relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, where conditions are either too hot, too cold, and/or too dry for many conventional fruit trees. It was where they got acquainted with Chinese Jujube trees, which almost instantly transformed them into ardent advocates. Rafael and Patricia also enjoy growing several cultivars of Persian/Black mulberries, Figs, Pomegranates, and desert-hardy Citrus.