If the birds offer any clue, this is a very, very busy time of year. Every seed tumbling from shriveled flower heads must be pecked up (or in the case of sunflowers, directly helped from their tight ...

A mature fig tree grew in the sunny corner of the postage-stamp-sized back garden of the storefront apartment I rented for most of my twenties. More a bush, really, it had been planted by my landlord ...

If you're lucky enough to have a fig tree, you're probably harvesting some of those sweet, fat fruits right now. If you don't have a fig tree, look for them at the farmers market. Cook This: Better ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Back for its 11th season, the Staten Island Fig Fest will be an outdoor festival. It returns to the National Lighthouse Museum in St. George on Sunday, Sept. 19 from 2 p.m. to 6 ...

In the late 1800s, a Mediterranean tree began to take root in the United States when Italian immigrants began arriving in the country. Their suitcases were filled with things that reminded them of ...

People still climb the stairs from the River Walk to the Fig Tree Restaurant asking for Beef Wellington. But there’s no Beef Wellington at Fig Tree, because the Fig Tree that lived at this La Villita ...

After 50 years on the River Walk, the elegant Fig Tree Restaurant at La Villita closed for good as COVID emerged in 2020. But a new ownership team, led by restaurateur Sam Panchevre of Sam’s Burger ...