SANTA CRUZ >> There are a lot of good reasons for picking the loquats that are about the fall from trees all over Santa Cruz County, including saving food from the waste stream, lowering your carbon ...

This elegant tart can be made with any fruit, but loquats work particularly well this time of year. For the Crust: Process the flour and butter in a food processor until coarse crumbs form. With the ...

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Instructions: While biscuits are baking, whip the heavy cream in a chilled bowl until it is almost stiff. Do not overbeat or it will turn to butter. If you like, add confectioners’ sugar and vanilla ...

Instead of apricot, peach or other similar stonefruit jellies and jams, top your toast with this sweet use for loquats. Instructions: Select full-size loquats that are still hard. Wash the loquats and ...

Loquat season has arrived, and the bounty is ripe for harvesting by the homeowners fortunate enough to own a tree or two — and the shifty neighbors eager to steal a couple quarts. If you don’t know ...

My son remembers climbing Grandma’s backyard fence to pick the loquats from a heavily laden branch of the neighbor’s tree. Meyerland florist Sallie McKnight had planted that tree in her backyard, and ...

On a recent warm May day, bundles of small sun-kissed-colored fruit droop from a towering tree in Raffy Espiritu's backyard in Milpitas. They soak in the light and ripen in the heat before suddenly ...

Though they're rarely sold commercially, if you've been in southern California for more than just a vacation, you've probably encountered loquat trees all over the landscape, sometimes in parking ...

There are trees scattered about town with branches sagging, heavy from the weight of hundreds of golden yellow orbs. Some may think of them as pretty little decorations, but they’re actually tasty ...