Driving to Athens on Georgia 316 last week, I kept glancing at the many Chickasaw plum thickets sporting their shimmering white blossoms along the highway. A small, native tree, the Chickasaw plum ...

The fruit of the Sand Plum, also known as Chickasaw Plum, makes a delicious, tart jam, similar to Scandinavian lingonberry jam. Plums are ripe and ready for picking from mid-to-late July. Sand plums ...

Walk into any grocery store in America and you'll see the same tired fruit selection. Apples from Washington, bananas from Ecuador, grapes shipped in from Chile. Yet the United States has a treasure ...