Avocado, guava, jaboticaba, mango and starfruit — though their flavors are exotic, they can easily be grown here in the home garden. These tropicals tolerate temperatures to around 27 degrees ...

Columbus and other early voyagers to the Americas filled their travel journals with breathless descriptions of the tropical fruits they’d never seen before: avocados, papayas, pineapples, soursop, ...

Madeline May, past president of the Bonita Springs Tropical Fruit Club, has over 300 fruit and nut trees around her Fort Myers home. Her 5-acre grove includes lychee trees, mangoes, mulberries, ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Fall can be a great time to plant lettuce. We all need to include some more greens in the diet. Lettuce loves cool temperatures and can withstand a light ...

We have come to a time when we need to depend more on our gardens and what they can produce to keep our food costs lower and products locally grown. Humans have had an impact on the world’s ecosystems ...