Chocolate fruit for South Florida

For people who have chocolate cravings, here’s a surprising source of satisfaction: the chocoate persimmon — sweet and creamy with subtle notes of chocolate flavor.

Bare-root fruit trees

Bare-root season is not just for roses.

Small Kitchen College: Sweet Dreamin': A Fruit Tart Fit for Valentine's Day

During the school year, I catch myself dreaming up various excuses to retreat from College Hill to the cutest little pastry shop in Providence , just a trolley ride away. The bakery is called Pastiche and they make the most amazing fruit tarts I have ever seen and tasted.

Garden as Art: Flicker in a persimmon tree

Art in the garden can be fleeting, whether it be the short-lived fruit on the persimmon tree, or a visit from a Northern flicker, but Jennifer Koziel of Moraga managed to capture both of these transient images in the same photograph.

Green shoots for Warboys community orchard project

A PROJECT to create a community orchard in Warboys took root at the weekend following a five-year wait for a site.