Dragon fruit is low-calorie, high fiber, and so tasty — the perfect smoothie ingredient! If you haven’t had it, give this ...

Berries are one of the reliable producers in any garden, and people often overlook just how many kinds of berries there are. Since berries bloom at various times all summer, the more kinds of berries ...

There are so many reasons to love summer. But high on my list is the season’s beautiful fruit. After months of juiceless, unripe, flown-in-from-far-away fruit, it is finally time for locally grown ...

The fruit fly (Drosophila suzukii) ruins berries for human consumption by laying its eggs under the skin of the fruit. Larvae subsequently hatch from those eggs and feed on the berries until maturity.

This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims’ four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...