Hot buttered biscuits and homemade fig preserves. Need I say more? Figs are one of the most widely planted home fruit trees in Louisiana. They thrive with little effort and produce crops of juicy, ...

Carole Ann Clark is looking at the fruit-laden fig tree that dominates the side yard of her brick and clapboard home in Bethesda. "When did I put it in?" she asks. "Seven years ago, perhaps." ...