PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) – Eating fresh foods has many benefits including enhancing health and the taste of meals and desserts. One of the best ways to always have fresh ingredients and healthy snacks is ...

Persimmon is an orange, tomato-shaped fruit that has a sweet taste similar to a cantaloupe. Often growing on smaller trees, some persimmon varieties are ideal for yards with limited space. However, ...

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

You can have a fruit garden in almost any small yard, it just takes planning. As backyards have become smaller in the past few years, plant breeders have been working hard to scale down fruit bearing ...

Small space? No problem. This fruit tree thrives in containers, shows off variegated foliage, and delivers a pink surprise ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Fruit trees can convert a strictly ornamental garden into a multipurpose home landscape. Because fruits are good-looking as well as nutritious, they can dress up a sunny spot in the front garden as ...

As a new season of the year approaches, novice gardeners who have leftover seeds might wonder if they should toss out their packets or hold onto them for next year. This could be especially of ...

While fruit juice is delicious to humans, it may not be the best option for your plants. Know these potential drawbacks ...

First-time food growers fantasize about replacing store-bought produce with a home harvest. But much of what is available at the grocery is grown hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away in highly ...

Dr. Alois Falkenstein put decades of work into breeding and cultivating rare fruits in the Arizona desert, and created a community of like-minded gardeners. Over more than two decades, a small ...