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My neighbor Margaret called me last summer in a panic. Her backyard apple tree was loaded with fruit, and she had no idea what to do with hundreds of apples. “I’ve been buying expensive superfood powders for years,” she told me. “And here I am with a tree full of one of the healthiest fruits … Read more
My friend Sarah started a keto diet last summer and immediately swore off all fruit. Her raspberry bushes—the same bushes she’d carefully tended for three years—went unpicked. The berries rotted on the vine while she ate packaged “keto snacks” from the grocery store. When I told her raspberries have only 3 grams of net carbs … Read more
My grandmother couldn’t eat grapefruit anymore after she started blood pressure medication. Her doctor was very clear: no grapefruit, period. The interaction with her medicine was too risky. She was devastated. Grapefruit had been her breakfast ritual for forty years. “What am I supposed to eat instead?” she asked me. “Is there anything like grapefruit … Read more
My friend Ravi grew up in a village near Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. Every summer, his grandfather would take him through their small mango orchard at dawn. The old man would examine each Alphonso tree, checking the fruit by smell alone. “You never pick a mango,” his grandfather told him. “You wait for the mango to tell … Read more
My friend Tony came back from his first trip to Thailand with an interesting story. He’d walked into a hotel lobby and immediately smelled what he thought was a gas leak. He rushed to the front desk in a panic. The staff laughed. “No gas leak, sir. Someone brought durian into the building.” That was … Read more
My neighbor Jim started growing raspberries three years ago after his doctor told him to watch his blood sugar. He’d been eating bananas every morning, thinking he was being healthy. Turns out, one medium banana has about 14 grams of sugar. His morning raspberries? Just 5 grams per cup. “I wish someone had told me … Read more
Have you ever sat on your porch here in Bakersfield, cracking open pistachios, and wondered how they get here? I have. My neighbor, Sal, he planted a few trees in his backyard years ago. For the longest time, they just looked like skinny sticks. We all kinda thought they were dead. Then, one summer, after … Read more
A few years back, I was helping a customer in Fresno with a new garden. Their soil was bad. Nothing grew right. They were frustrated. I saw a pistachio shell on their porch. I asked if they liked them. They said yes, but they had no idea you could actually grow the tree here. It … Read more
I still remember the first fruit tree I planted in my California backyard. I was so excited about having fresh peaches that I just dug a hole and plopped that tree right into our heavy clay soil. Big mistake. After two years of watching it struggle with yellow leaves and maybe three pathetic fruits, I … Read more
I got a call last summer from a guy in San Diego. He was so upset. His beautiful avocado tree, the one he’d grown from a seed, was looking terrible. The leaves were yellow and droopy. He told me, “I water it every single day, just like my vegetable garden. I don’t understand why it’s … Read more
Did you know that fig trees have been around for over 11,000 years? They’re some of the oldest fruit trees people have ever grown. Every year, the world grows more than 1.1 million metric tons of figs. But here’s the funny thing, most people who love eating them have no idea how a fig tree … Read more
Hey there. So, you’re trying to figure out this whole avocado tree pollination thing, aren’t you? I get it. I was over at a friend’s place in San Mateo last summer. He had this gorgeous, big avocado tree in his backyard. Lush leaves, strong branches—looked like something out of a magazine. But he was frustrated. … Read more