If you want to eat a pawpaw, you’ve got to be quick. Pawpaws, or “hillbilly bananas,” have to ripen on the tree, which means they usually fall to the ground when they are ready. “One of the funny, key ...

NEW ENGLAND FRUIT. I TYPICALLY CARRY SEEDS WITH ME, AND IF I FIND A PLACE THAT’S LIKELY, THEN I PLANT SOME SEEDS THERE. AND YOU KNOW, HOPE THEY’LL SPROUT. TED. ROCHESTER IS A MODERN DAY JOHNNY ...

There is a fruit that grows on farms in 40 states. It's native to much of the Eastern U.S., and it even has its own song. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WAY DOWN YONDER IN THE PAW PAW PATCH") BURL IVES: ...

As the folk song lyrics go, when asked where “pretty little Susie” is, the answer is “pickin' up paw-paws, puttin' 'em in her pockets, way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.” A little-known fruit, the ...

Aly Stoffo knows where to find wild mushrooms, berries and other edible plants on Staten Island. But the location of her favorite paw paw patch is a secret. By Tammy LaGorce The urban forager Aly ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Under normal circumstances, paw-paws start dropping — literally — in New York right about now. But the massive amounts of rain have put a crimp in the 2021 growing season for ...

Pawpaws are the fruit of a hardy understory tree native to parts of the U.S. They used to be everywhere, but most Americans today have never heard of them. The tropical-tasting fruit is hard to farm ...