Cucumber and jicama make an odd couple. The cucumber is from Asia and is beloved in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Europe. But in those areas, jicama is unknown. On the other hand, jicama is a ...

Olives are one of the most important crops in Mediterranean agriculture. They are valued both for table consumption and for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It all comes down to the reproductive body of the plant, or in this case, tree. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, a fruit is ...

Pink is such a pretty color -- so frilly, so delicate. It’s the color of fragile flowers and fading sunsets. You probably don’t think of it as the color of wine to serve with robust foods, but you ...

Olives are beautiful to behold in Marin gardens. Once established, they require little to moderate water and their gray-green foliage pairs well with other low-maintenance Mediterranean plants.

Q: My single backyard tree is healthy and produces abundantly every year. However, the olives are inedible. I took a couple of them to West End Nursery in San Rafael and showed them that every olive ...

Are green and black olives from different trees? Surprisingly, they’re not! The color difference simply comes down to how ripe the olives are when they’re harvested. Green olives are picked before ...