Growing a papaya tree from seeds can be a very interesting task if you have a balcony where you can keep the plants. This is simply because papayas grow quickly and can be maintained well in pots. If ...

My family’s olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they’re still here—and so are we. Hend Salama Abo Helow’s ...

Salah Abu Ali is the guardian of the oldest olive tree in the occupied West Bank. The tree is estimated to be 3,000 to 5,500 years old. When missing a call cost this employee a day’s salary: How being ...

Justus Bischoff, who has five years of experience as a Christmas tree farmer, sits down with PEOPLE to give his top tips for the holiday season Luke Chinman is a writer at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in ...

Olives need to grow to full size before harvesting. An olive tree is more than a food plant. The silvery-gray leaves shimmer in the breeze, making this Mediterranean crop beautiful too. If you’re not ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

Palestinians see the violence, and its tolerance by right-wing Israeli officialdom, as part of a broader campaign to harass them and make life so unbearable that they will abandon their villages.

Study finds that olive trees produced the same yields and high-quality oil even when using 25-50% less nitrogen than recommended amounts for traditional orchards. (Savannah Haas/UC Davis) Rows of ...

Olives are one of the oldest cultivated trees in the world, with evidence that they’ve been grown for more than 7,000 years. Native to the Mediterranean, they have lovely, silvery leaves and elegant, ...

Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their branches bare and brittle.