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When you bite into a fresh fig, you’re experiencing something unique in the plant kingdom: a flower turned inside out. This remarkable fruit, which isn’t quite a fruit in the traditional sense, represents one of nature’s most fascinating botanical arrangements and one of its oldest and most intricate partnerships between plant and insect. The fig…
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It’s autumn, and you know what that means. Pears! As anyone with fruit trees knows, there are good years and there are bad years. This year, we had a very good year that gave us a bumper crop of my favorite fruit. But try as we might, we just can’t eat that many pears all…