They can be toasted, steeped, or ground to infuse flavor into desserts, syrups, and rice, or used as wrappers for foods like fish. Here's how I make the most of them in my kitchen. My dad had a gift ...

The fiddle leaf fig is a popular houseplant, grand in size with gigantic leaves. But, there are a few reasons you may want to pause before purchasing one.

A step-by-step guide to cultivating delicious figs at home.

The Fignomenal fig variety is known for its compact size and fast fruit production, making it ideal for home gardeners. With proper care, sunlight, and watering, it can produce figs much sooner than ...

Pat Morgan of Westlake Village wrote to the SoCal Garden Clinic to ask: My fig tree was started from a cutting three years ago and was recently transplanted to our atrium. It has been in a container ...

"You can't buy figs with this much flavor at the grocery store," Tony Sarraino boasts, offering his visitors a palm full of the plump, dark fruit. "Wow," exclaims one of Sarraino's tasters, biting ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The common fig (Ficus carica) is a small tree native to southwest Asia but ...

Last year’s inaugural Fig Tree Exchange at the Astoria Food Pantry was such a hit the line to give and get cuttings of the fruit producers stemmed onto the sidewalk ...

Lately, my social media algorithm has been circling back to Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” specifically her famous poem “The ...