Last December, at the height of Greece’s olive harvest season, two men drove a stolen white truck to the Glyfada mill in a small town not far from Kalamata. After idling the truck for a ...

The Cape chestnut is a small to medium-sized growing tree native to the Cape region of South Africa. It is a member of the ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

JW Marriott has opened a luxe new hotel in Greece, the Crete Resort & Spa. The property offers up pools, a spa, and wellness-focuses amenities.

During the season of Lag Ba'omer With the Lag Ba’omer season upon us, today’s picnic under a carob tree seems particularly relevant.

The SNFCC houses the Greek National Opera (GNO), the National Library of Greece, and the largest public Mediterranean garden in the world, filled with olive, carob and cypress trees, and aromatic ...

Carob is a seed, pod-producing tree native to the Mediterranean. The fruit that surrounds the seeds is a common chocolate substitute and may benefit your health.

The Monreale Cathedral stands as a testament to King William II’s vision, said to have been inspired by a dream in which the Virgin Mary urged him to build a church on the very spot. Legend has it ...

Carob syrup has a wide range of uses in foods and sweets Her 11-year-old son, Michail, has been eating carobs picked straight from a tree. Sophia says you have to know when to pick them to eat raw.

Apocryphally, that's often attributed to a "Greek proverb," though the true source is likely a Jewish proverb about Honi and the carob tree.