Some fruits require a little more work to enjoy than others, since not everything can be as easy as plucking an apple from a tree and taking a bite. Certain fruits, such as pomegranates, require ...

Sometimes the best Austin Answered queries come from above. By that I mean, from my editors. Features editor Deborah Sengupta Stith, an astute gardener, put forth a perfect question for this column in ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

This member of the grape family is native to most of the U.S. and parts of Canada. Growing up to 75 feet, vines produce edible fruit in late summer or fall that sweeten after first frost. Vines of ...