"Pickin' up pawpaws, put 'em in your pocket ... way down yonder in the pawpaw patch" is how the traditional folk song about North America's largest tropical fruit concludes. The sing-song tune, "Way ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Farmers and volunteers at EarthDance Organic Farm School in Ferguson do a taste test of the pawpaws grown at their orchard on ...

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. -- Ask most people to list fruit trees and the list will start with apples and will probably fall short of listing persimmons or paw-paw. A few people are making money from ...

LOUISIANA, Mo. -- In 1816, a young pioneer from Kentucky, James Hart Stark, homesteaded on the shore of the Mississippi River at the site of what is now Louisiana, Missouri. Stark had brought along a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --Northeast Ohio’s tree fruit season is in full swing, but availability varies widely across the region because of extreme weather. Cleveland.com explored how orchards are managing ...