Well this is down right clever. Creator Scot Amron has invented a new kind of fruit label that not only dissolves when it gets wet, it dissolves into an organic "fruit soap" that will clean your apple before you eat it out of hand. Pretty sweet, right? more ›

A Florida family is "fuming" over a $300 fine they received after they got caught bringing an apple, a tomato, and three cucumbers from Israel through Newark Liberty Airport on Thursday. CBS 2 reports that Suri and Peter Steinberger are "livid" over the incident, which they chalk up to an honest mistake. When preparing for the long flight home from Israel, Mrs. Steinberger put the produce into her son's backpack as a snack, reasoning, "Let them eat it on the plane instead of eating garbage." But she didn't tell her husband about it, and for some mysterious reason the boys never ate those raw cucumbers or the fruit! more ›

Only occasionally do artisanally-minded urban dwellers get to forage for our meals—which is why, upon hearing about the limited-edition serviceberries cropping up in Brooklyn Bridge Park, we rushed over to pluck some ourselves. more ›

Last year we took a little look back at Wildman Steve Brill's foraging tour when one blogger made an entire salad after hearing his edible plant tips. The cherry on top came in the form of an apple, picked right from a tree behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, NYC the Blog points to more free fruit growing right in Manhattan—delicious wild blackberries, to be exact. more ›

Starting next month, Central Park vendors will bring apples and bananas to hot dog and ice cream territory. Not only will the new fruit carts’ offerings be healthier than normal vendor fare, it will be cheaper. According the Post, they’ll sell “three bananas for just a buck, half-pound boxes of strawberries for $2 and mangoes for $1.50.” A spokesman says the Parks Department is “trying to vary our food offerings and include healthy and diverse options." Still, New Yorkers weren’t all enthused. “Bring on more junk food!" said one bagel-hardened skeptic. more ›

As one man battles a ginkgo biloba tree in Brooklyn, another fights his own stinky tree situation in Queens. Barry Plonski's home on 210th Street and 43rd Avenue in Bayside is within smelling distance of multiple gingkos — and he places the smell they emit "at the olfactory intersection of animal feces and vomit." Female gingkos, the smelly fruit bearers, are the ones to blame — and there are about 15 in Plonski's neighborhood. more ›

One amateur Queens farmer has found herself standing in the shadows of a 6-foot-tall zucchini! The Daily News reports on Apollonia Castitlione's green thumb, and says she only used fertilizer and water to grow the massive fruit. She told the paper, "I've had my vegetable garden for 26 years, but I never saw anything so spectacular"...and it's still growing! At this rate, it could take out the world record holder, a 7-foot, 10-inch zucchini from India. Once it stops growing, Castitlione doesn't want to eat the fruits of her labor, saying "it's getting hard, so wouldn't be good to eat anymore," but she will save the seeds for next year. [via Queens Crap] more ›