The oldest cultivated fruit might also be the oldest crop in general, and it comes from the seat of human civlization, ...

On a gray, chilly December morning in Sewickley, Pa., Michele Vaccaro and his assistant are digging a trench in a garden. "It looks like we're burying somebody over here — a body," Vaccaro says. Cast ...

‘We’ve had 50 years of division; 50 years of failure. 50 years of the same conversation, over and over again’ In the middle of No Man’s Land, there stands a lonely fig tree. Each summer, its fruit ...

Figs might be the most important fruit in the world. These trees were the first to be cultivated. Civilization as we know it can be traced back to this fruit! As easy as they are to grow, the fruit ...