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My buddy Marcus grows tropical fruit trees in his backyard in South Florida. A few years back, he finally got his durian tree to fruit after nearly a decade of babying it through cold snaps … Read more
Last summer, I brought in a basket of perfectly ripe tomatoes from my garden. Three days later, my kitchen looked like a science experiment gone wrong. Tiny flies swarmed every surface. They hovered over my … Read more
A woman at our community garden in South Florida brought in a bag of star fruit last fall. She had a tree in her backyard that was producing more than her family could handle. Probably … Read more
Last summer, my strawberry patch went absolutely wild. I’m talking buckets of berries every few days for three weeks straight. My neighbor Carol saw me hauling the fifth harvest basket to my kitchen and yelled … Read more
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 … 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 … 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 … Read more
Last summer, my neighbor Uncle Rajan knocked on my door with a basket full of Alphonso mangoes from his cousin’s orchard in Ratnagiri. The second I opened that basket, the smell hit me — sweet, … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read more