With just a few ingredients and a bit of patience, you will be enjoying homemade fig and walnut ice cream.

Every summer, our vigil would begin in early July. We searched the tall, sprawling tree every day. How could those hard green orbs suddenly burst into soft pear-shaped delights – wildly sweet and fat, ...

Every year around this time, I wait for a text from some good friends who have an old, sprawling fig tree in their backyard: “Figs are ripening! Come pick anytime!” And we do. Figs are utterly unlike ...

The fig tree in my backyard is close to producing its first real crop since I planted it four years ago. I’ve been watching its progress anxiously. Every morning before I go to work, I walk by and ...

Ripe figs give me the same deep joy I get when holding a newborn. They feel so soft and fuzzy and have a delicate, sweet scent that smells like nothing else in the world. A few long inhales and ...

On my parents’ property in Clarkston, there used to be an enormous, rambling fig tree. It sprouted up as a “volunteer” (the word my mother uses for things that aren’t planted, but somehow arrive ...

If you've got a fig tree in your yard or know someone with a fig tree, chances are you have a bounty of the fruit right now. Like the fruit itself, which has a brief shelf life once picked, fig season ...

‘Nature’s candy’ comes in handy for jam, scones, coffee cake or banana bread Late summer is high season for figs in Georgia. Right now, you can find colorful pints of fresh figs on display at local ...