Both pears and apples are around 84-85% water, which Benson notes makes them “naturally hydrating,” while pears specifically ...

Succulents are often labeled low maintenance, yet many popular varieties benefit from occasional pruning to stay healthy, balanced, and visually appealing.

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I show you how to prepare and eat cactus fruit also known as prickly pear, cactus pear, tuna fruit, opuntia, nopal. They come mainly in two different ...

We are all used to seeing red, green, golden, or crimson-colored apples, but the black diamond apple is one that provides an exotic variant of this ordinary fruit. This rare apple is found in the high ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever walked past a cactus with broad, flat, ovoid pads with colorful spiky balls growing from them? You just walked past a source of food.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — The orchards at Green's Fruit Farm near Elysburg are full of apples ready for the picking. Farmers Sara and Bobby Hricko have been busy harvesting their crop. They say ...

The Rhode Island Greening apple is the official state fruit of Rhode Island. This apple variety is typically harvested late in the season, around the end of October. Though once popular, the apple has ...

This year’s Apple Hill fall season will not be one to miss, according to Chris Delfino, a longtime grower in the region. He said this year’s fruit harvest is the best he has seen in the three decades ...

Digit’s cousin, Brigit, is in a prickly bind. Although her garden is overflowing with flowering cactus plants, they’re not bearing any apple cactus fruit. And no cactus apple fruit means no cactus ...

Tanisha Tucker Lohse, of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, picks a ripe saguaro cactus fruit during a harvest day in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona, this June. Credit: Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo ...

Yellow dragon fruit (Hylocereus megalanthus) is a cactus fruit native to South America. It has white flesh with tiny black seeds and a thick, yellow, scaly peel, giving it a dragon-like appearance.