Jujubes Pomegranates Figs_INRA, Jean Weber Fruit for Better Health. Adding fruit trees to your garden can improve your familys health, since the fruit you harvest will be full of fiber and vitamins.
With a devastating disease of citrus spreading in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, its a great time to explore other options for fruit trees beyond citrus. All citrus, including oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, kumquats and mandarins are impacted by the disease.
Fig Recipe_BWurzinger-Pixabay Below are links for recipes and information on various tree fruits: Harvest of the Month Apples (CDPH) English Spanish Persimmons (CDPH) English Spanish Pomegranate (SD) Avocado (SD) Mango (SD) Peach (SD) Eat Fresh Apple Celery Slaw with Nuts Persimmon Spinach Salad Fig...
Four workshop were developed for the Alternatives to Citrus Project. All of them cover Huanglongbing, the deadly disease of citrus that is spreading in residential citrus trees in Los Angeles County and surrounding areas.
To help keep families and neighborhoods safer, Christine Wilkinson, a researcher at UC Santa Cruz and the California Academy of Sciences; Niamh Quinn, UC Cooperative Extension human-wildlife interactions advisor; and other University of California scientists embarked on a study to understand how coyotes move…
