"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There's a lot to love about fig trees—especially if you're lucky enough to have one in your own backyard.

Season after season, year in and out, Linda Cicero gets her hopes up that finally, this time around, she'll harvest fruit from the fig tree outside her Noe Valley home in San Francisco. Instead, she ...

Every morning, over 15 kilograms of ripe figs are hanging on branches, waiting to be harvested at Al Kharran farms in Ras Al Khaimah. Abdul Latif, the caretaker of the farm, picks up some baskets and ...