Fall is typically known as harvest season, but you can plant plenty of fruit trees in your backyard during this season.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in the capital Nairobi.

When LAist senior editor Suzanne Levy discovered there was a fig tree in her new backyard, she was thrilled. She didn't realize she'd be sharing its bounty with a tenacious sweet-toothed squirrel. The ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. — One southern Indiana family truly has one of the largest trees in the nation. Richard and Kris Schepman’s family farm, located outside of Crothersville, is home to a swamp ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) A swamp chestnut oak tree in Jennings County has been recognized as the largest of the species in the country by the National Champion Tree program, according to a press ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. — Indiana Governor Mike Braun visited a record-setting tree in Jennings County this week. The tree that drew the attention of Indiana’s governor is a swamp chestnut oak tree ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind.–A swamp chestnut oak tree in Jennings County has been recognized as the largest of the species in the country by the National Champion Tree Program. It has a height of 95 feet, a ...

Stock futures saw a slight uptick on Thursday morning, a move that came despite a weak private payrolls report from ADP, which intensified the market's focus on Friday's official jobs data. Meanwhile, ...

One afigcionado is making this corner of Queens a far more fruit-friendly place. Buoyed by the success of Astoria’s first-ever fig tree scion exchange in March — which brought in some 200 people to ...

Brian Melton cultivates over 300 fig varieties in Fresno through grafting. Local customers buy Melton's figs directly via social media and porch pickup. Fresno remains key to U.S. fig production, ...

We are in the middle of a very hot summer. As I was mowing the yard this weekend, I stopped to take a break in the shade of the swamp chestnut oak tree in my front yard. I started thinking about the ...

Elisha Wise will receive funding from the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (ARCH) from October 2025. In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood ...