Season after season, year in and out, Linda Cicero gets her hopes up that finally, this time around, she'll harvest fruit from the fig tree outside her Noe Valley home in San Francisco. Instead, she ...

The local birds and I have been enjoying the main crop of my garden’s fig tree (Ficus carica “Black Mission”). The tasty experience pleases the bird and leads me to a review of this popular tree. My ...

I still remember my first fresh figs. My family was traveling in Southern Europe and my dad stopped at a roadside stand. He was so happy that they had figs. Looking at the dark brown, lumpy fruits, I ...