Learn how to know when to pick apples and enjoy perfectly flavored fruit ready for eating, cooking or making into cider.

It’s time — or getting to be time — for us gardeners to reap what we’ve sown. Although it’s fairly evident when some edibles, like tomatoes, are ripe for the picking (uniform red, yellow or orange ...

A sign that the apples are going to detach simply can be when you see lots of windfall apples on the ground around trees.

Fresh figs are a bit of a rare find at the supermarket, since they have two relatively short seasons a year -- early summer and late summer or the beginning of fall. So when they make an appearance at ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's that time of year when Paul Mesple reminds people to "eat a fig." Mesple is a third-generation fig farmer who operates a fruit stand at Millbrook and Alluvial in ...