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 ...

Being refined can be a desirable quality. It reflects a process in which the best possible features have been distilled and are on display. With this refining process there are traits which are ...