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July 29, 2007 Figs for all...This Texas Everbearing
or Brown Turkey fig is a type of Common Fig.
Figs provide food for all species.....Learn
some fig facts at George
Ray McEachern, Extension Horticulturist Texas A & M University.
Figs are one of the easiest fruit trees to propagate from cuttings.
You can find fig photos here.
We have a tradition on our farm to plant a tree under the
placenta of a new born home birth child. Two of our Brown Turkey figs
grow over the placentas of two of the boys born on the farm. Healthy fig
trees rest on the placenta of our son Sky born in 1982 and friends son
Django Preisler born a couple of years later. The fig being eaten is from
the "Preisler" fig.
According to Wikipedia....A
little history.....
.... The Common Fig is widely grown for its edible fruit throughout
its natural range and also in the rest of the Mediterranean region and
other areas of the world with a similar climate, including Australia,
Chile, South Africa, and California, Oregon, Texas, and Washington in
the United States. The edible fig is one of the first plants that was
cultivated by humans. An article in Science stated that nine fossilized
figs dating to about 9400-9200 BC were found in the early Neolithic
village Gilgal I in the Jordan Valley. As the figs were of the parthenocarpic
type, they are of an early domestic breed. The find predates the domestication
of wheat, barley and legumes, and may thus be the first known instance
of agriculture.[1] Thousands of cultivars, most unnamed, have been developed
or come into existence as human migration brought the fig to many places
outside its natural range. It has been an important food crop for thousands
of years, and was also thought to be highly beneficial in the diet.
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