Tu Bishvat, the Jewish Holiday of Trees, begins on Sunday evening, Feb. 5. Also known as the New Year of Trees, Tu Bishvat is a time for tree planting and admiring nature, especially the beauty of ...

Many temperate fruit and nut trees need a period of winter chill in order to produce flowers and fruit each year. Without enough sustained chilling, the timing of bud break and pollination, and the ...

Look closely and you might be able to pick out the pistachios, pecans, cashews and pieces of the all-important dates in my double batch of ‘Chewy Fruit and Nut Bars,’ waiting here to be cut into ...

Growing up in a large Lebanese household, salad was served almost every day. Mom would pound garlic, salt and a little pepper together in a bowl with her heirloom pestle, then stir in lemon juice and ...

For the past month I have been sharing the two or three bananas I eat each day with local Mexican fruit flies. Oddly enough, an evening dinner conversation with friends brought up the question, "where ...

Late winter is an ideal time for pruning many trees, and fruit trees are no exception. Regularly trimming away damaged and unsightly branches is key to maintaining a healthy tree with an aesthetically ...

Call me a nut, but I’m always interested in how my food is grown. Did you know that cashews are grown on a tree? Ok, maybe you did, but did you know that the tree produces fruit, known as a cashew ...