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American persimmon · Crabapple · Fig · Mulberry
📍 400 Shelton St, Carrboro, NC 27510, USA
🗓 Season: October · November · December · August · September · June · July · May
🔍 When is it ripe?
American persimmon: Must be fully ripe (very soft, almost jelly-like) before eating. Harvest after first frost or when naturally falling. Dark orange to purple when ready. Rich, caramel-sweet flavour.
Crabapple: Small apples ripen from green to red, yellow, or orange by variety. Very tart raw but excellent for jelly and cider. Ripe when the colour is fully developed and the fruit lifts off with a gentle twist.
Fig: Hangs heavily and droops at the neck; skin softens and may split. A sweet drop of nectar at the base eye and the absence of white sap at the stem confirm ripeness. Pick with a gentle twist.
Mulberry: Ripe when fully coloured (white, red, or black by species) and falls at a touch. Spread a sheet and shake the branches. Extremely perishable — process or eat immediately.
There is a small mulberry (ripe in May) and a crabapple (ripe at the end of summer) at the edge of the bus circle. There is a large fig tree (July) deep inside the campus, between some of the buildings. There are multiple American persimmons on the grass just interior to the bus circle (November). There is a mixed orchard not far from the track, but the trees are often attacked by deer and may not have any fruit.
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