Eating Local, Eating Green: Let the purple sidewalk stain be your guide

Mulberries are staining the sidewalks of Memphis right now. What seems to be a nuisance is actually a bounty of sweetness, weeks before most of our summer fruits show up.

Fruit-related injury was bruising

When was your first encounter with kiwi? My introduction wasn't by way of a fancy-fruit compote or in the produce aisle. My initial glimpse of a "kiwi" was on the corner of Orange and First streets in Jesup.

Catering company is job training for recovering substance abusers

The menu was summery, chic — fresh fruit, chicken Caesar salad — but the meal was made

Sweet and sour: Juicy spring fruit tops many Lebanese grocery lists

Across Beirut, people are perching on chairs and teetering on ladders to get their hands on one of spring’s sweetest fruits.

Spotted bowerbirds get more sex by cultivating fruit | Not Exactly Rocket Science

The sexual success of the male spotted bowerbird depends on his gardening skills. In his patch of forest, where he displays to mates, he cultivates a small fruiting shrub called the ‘ bush tomato ’, with purple flowers and green fruit. It’s not clear if his actions are deliberate or inadvertent, but it is clear that he doesn’t eat the fruit. The plant is there to provide him with decorations, to ...