Fig is the oldest fruit to be cultivated by humans. It is easily propagated by cuttings and grows delicious and abundant fruit in much of North America.

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ...

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to “Under The Fig Trees,” Tunisia’s official Oscar submission which opened at Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight. The film, which marks the ...

When W. John Kress was in college and pondering what life was all about, he used to climb up into a treetop and stay there ...

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

Touch the fruit. Not all figs show obvious signs of ripening. Some, including the popular LSU Gold cultivar, remain green throughout much of the process, taking on a yellow tinge only at the last ...

Following the release of their acclaimed debut collaborative album Orchards of a Futile Heaven, The Body & Dis Fig have announced a collaborative tour throughout North America this Summer. The ...

Neon has grabbed North American rights to The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the latest film from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil, Manuscripts Don’t Burn).

This sense of discovery and exploration is absent in the wide-open bowls and well-trafficked, groomed arterials at ski resorts. Good tree skiing feels like being let in on a secret. If embarking on ...

July in Louisiana marks many celebrations, one of which is fig harvest season. Figs (Ficus carica), native to the Middle East and western Asia, have become naturalized in North America and are ...

But there's one type of harvest-producing plant that blows these modest lifespans out of the water, potentially living long enough to feed your family for generations: fruit trees. Not all fruit trees ...