fresh green figs on a white plate

Celebrate the best of fall’s fresh fruit bounty with this seasonal produce picture guide!

Figs fresh from my friend's fig tree in her garden in Boronia, near Melbourne... Very sweet and intense flavour... (IMG_5026-5200-cropped-wm)

A fig lover’s nightmare is to have a tree full of small, hard figs sitting stubbornly unripe on the tree at the end of the season. It is often tempting to pick this end of season fruit before it’s fully mature, but will these figs ripen off the tree, or will you be stuck with sour, green l

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The firmness/ripeness/varitiey of your figs will affect the cooking time. The softer they are, the quicker they will cook. Check often if needed to get them to your liking.

In early summer, unripe figs begin to fatten wherever fig trees grow. In my Brooklyn neighborhood I find it difficult to pass branches dancing with the viv