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Top Four Best Places to Buy and Sell Antiques

If you’re up for the travel and antique shipping, here are four places to start your search for the best place to buy and sell your antiques away from home.

Where do your donated clothes go? Take a trip behind the scenes at Goodwill to find out

Clothes you donate to Goodwill or other thrift stores may not end up where you think.

Finding Treasure: A Quick Guide to Antique Appraisal

Could that old vase in your attic be valuable? We talked to a local appraiser to find out.

How to Deal With a Pawn Shop

A pawn shop can be a good place to get a few extra dollars if you need a loan or a quick sale. Pawn shops typically allow you to either sell an item outright, or place the item in the temporary care of the store in exchange for a cash...

How to Grow Figs in a Cold Climate

It may not be easy — but it isn’t impossible, either.

The Secret to Figgy Fig Drinks: Turn on Your Oven

I think that eating a fresh fig straight from the tree is one of life's singular pleasures, but getting that amazing fig flavor into a beverage is a bit of a challenge. Simply muddling figs into a drink won't really cut it. It may give the drink visual appeal, but won't impart much, if any, flavor. Cooking down figs into a syrup can end up tasting sweet and caramelly, but it won't retain much of the original fig's personality.

Figs are sweet, nutritious and easy to grow

One of the many pleasures of spending summers with my grandparents on the farm was picking and eating fresh “sugar figs.” Sure, the leaves were a bit scratchy, but it

Neman: Here's why I may never eat another fig again

When you bite into a sweet and succulent fig, it crunches a little from all of its tiny seeds. But sometimes, the seeds aren't the only things that crunch.

Why Should I Eat A Fig?

Discover a potassium-packed fruit that most pass by in the grocery store.

Want Fresher Air In Your House? Consider a Fiddle Leaf Fig

Smaller sized plants make a statement in decorative containersFiddle leaf (or commonly, ‘Fiddleleaf’) figs (Ficus lyrata) have been riding a wave of popularity that shows no sign of slowing down. Why? They’re reasonably easy to care for (see our specific tips below), sport large, showy leaves (shaped like a fiddle, get it?) and have a bold, architectural growth habit. The best part? They’re among the…

What’s the Next Status Plant (That Isn’t a Fiddle-leaf Fig)?

How to Pair Wine with Fennel

Fennel and wine can be a match made in heaven. The winter crop can play a few roles: vegetable (the bulb), herb (the lacy fronds) and spice (the seeds).

Fig Hunter: Cult fruit has admirers but at what cost to native flora?

Today's Fig Hunter is everywhere — from suburban Californian streets to far away Grecian hillsides and yet the quest remains the same.