I was 16 the first time persimmons entered my life, and they did so with a ridiculous misunderstanding. My best friend and I were driving through a quiet neighborhood when a handwritten yard sign made ...

“Persimmons look and taste like the fall season,” says Rachel Sullivan, the farm assistant at Frog Hollow Farm, a Brentwood, California, farm currently in the middle of its annual persimmon harvest.

LOCAL FLAVOR: Bill Whipple and Monica Williams have already harvested the persimmons from the tree on their West Asheville property and frozen the fruit for future uses. The couple grafted multiple ...

You don’t have to spend more than a year or two in Sonoma County before you’re rewarded with a unique sight. Some late autumn morning, after the brightly colored leaves have fallen from someone’s ...

A few weeks ago, after a tedious morning of errands, I came home, sat on my porch and dipped a spoon into a deep-orange Hachiya persimmon. I'd picked it at the Matt Family Orchard in Tomball. Pulpy, ...