Mango season is here. Mango trees on home landscapes and orchards in South Florida are working their way through the fruiting stage, making it prime time as the tiny flowers have begun to reveal tiny ...
If you have been staring at your mango tree this summer, willing the fruit to life but ultimately dejected by the stubbornly barren branches, you are not alone. This uniquely Miami drama is playing ...
I stood outside my childhood home in Fort Myers late last month, wielding a 30-foot-long fruit-picking apparatus fashioned from PVC pipe, an old pool skimmer and the base of a pole saw. I heard my mom ...
In certain academic circles, there’s a fierce debate over which fruit Eve gave Adam in the Garden of Eden. The King James Bible asserted it was an apple. Rabbis have claimed it was a grape turned into ...
I bet mango trees are one of the most popular fruit trees grown here in Brevard County, because I see a lot of them growing in yards throughout the county. This past winter, we did receive some cold ...
So goes the first line of a Jamaican folk song celebrating the arrival of mango season, a melody that brings back sweet childhood memories. Loosely translated it means “I don’t have breakfast during ...
In the heart of Miami, you can find a mango tree tucked away in a neighbor’s backyard, growing on a street corner, or standing tall in a park.(Miami Herald/MCT) MBR MCT June is recognized as National ...
Mangoes, mangoes, everywhere all around Tampa Bay. Christopher Spata is an enterprise reporter covering Floridians and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]. The Tampa Bay Times ...
After selling fruit grown in their backyard to family, friends and neighbors for about five years, the four Ferrari sisters had collected nearly $1,500. But what to do with all that money? At ages 7, ...
This story by former News-Press reporter Annabelle Tometich was originally published on July 13, 2021. The version below has been edited to remove information about mango events and festivals that ...