Figs are a delightful option for home gardeners, combining sweet, rich flavor and ease of care. Once established, fig trees require minimal maintenance, are drought-tolerant, and can adapt to various ...

Figs may be beneficial to health in a variety of ways, including improving skin and hair health. They also tend to have high nutritional value for many. A fig is a soft fruit with a thin skin that can ...

Figs — in all shapes, colors and sizes — are ripening all over the South. And what memories these oh-so-delicious fruits bring to mind. As a kid, I would crawl under the canopy of my grandmother’s ...

I drove by his Mukilteo house, looking for a fig tree. Sure, the leaves are famous in art and religion — but who knows what a fig tree actually looks like? I wasn’t even sure what a fig looked like ...

As an expatriate Southerner, I’m always happy to meet someone who also was raised in the South, the more rural the better. Conversation quickly shifts to food. Did you have purple hull peas? How did ...

The sensual experience of biting through the skin of a fresh fig, savoring its nuanced sweetness and crunching on its tiny seeds, is among summer’s great pleasures. It’s all the sweeter if the fig is ...