Fig Culture: Helping You Grow a Fig Tree in a Cold Climate

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24
Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.
Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.
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Ever hankered for figs, but didn’t have any fresh figs at hand. Or at your local shops. 

In this episode, we’re talking about a tasty and simple way to turn dry figs into a tasty condiment. Never a bad thing. 

Our fig facilitator is chef and recipe developer Signe Langford from Port Hope, Ontario.
If you want a charcuterie game changer, tune in for this simple, sweet, spicy recipe.

  • For recipe sneak peaks from the books Signe and I are writing about olives, lemons, and figs, click here.
  • For the Fig Mostarda recipe click here.

What is Fig Culture: Helping You Grow a Fig Tree in a Cold Climate?

Want to grow figs but live somewhere with cold winters? Our passion is growing figs in cold climates.
We help cold-climate fig lovers grow a fig tree in a pot, grow figs in the ground, and, most importantly, conquer winter.
There are many ways of growing figs in cold climates. Find out how you can successfully grow figs in your garden. Learn about fig-tree care. And get creative ideas for winter protection.
Host Steven Biggs is a cold-climate fig expert, horticulturist, and the author of the award-winning book Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t, the first book specifically about cold-climate fig culture. As a horticultural journalist, he interviews other fig experts, and writes about cold-climate fig culture for magazines and for his own blog at FoodGardenLife.com. His fig fetish began in 1993, when he spent a summer at the nursery with the UK National Collection of figs. He hasn’t looked back.