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SANTA CRUZ >> There are a lot of good reasons for picking the loquats that are about the fall from trees all over Santa Cruz County, including saving food from the waste stream, lowering your carbon ...

Loquats, which appeared in shops around the beginning of summer, are seen in this undated photo. Caution is needed when eating the seeds of loquats and other related fruits. (Mainichi) The Ministry of ...

The woman in the dressing room at Talbots was adamant: Southerners make jelly from loquats. "That's all." At least she knew what I was talking about. Although the lovely, evergreen loquat tree is ...

Loquat, a fruit tree native that grows well in the Mediterranean climate of Northern California, is back in season. Here's how to use this delicate fruit. I'd never tasted a loquat until I moved to ...

Kumquat or loquat? If you are new to Central Florida you might find these two fruits easy to confuse. Their names are similar and both fruits are oblong and alike in size, about 1-2 inches long. But ...

With the drought, many people are rethinking their gardens. Should I be growing vegetables? What about fruits? I’ll address vegetables in another column, but when it comes to fruits, there is a wide ...

Drive down the streets of SanTana’s oldest neighborhoods in spring, and you’ll see towering loquat trees drooping over the fences of seemingly every other house. Hundreds upon hundreds of mysterious ...

My son remembers climbing Grandma’s backyard fence to pick the loquats from a heavily laden branch of the neighbor’s tree. Meyerland florist Sallie McKnight had planted that tree in her backyard, and ...