HOMESTEAD – For mango lovers, the descent of inescapable heat and thick humidity is a time of anticipation. Each month brings a new variety: the peach-flavored Van Dyke appeared in mid-June, the ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Prepare your taste buds for an extraordinary experience as the Florida Mango Festival approaches this Sunday at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. WATCH BELOW: 'It's ...

I stood outside my childhood home in Fort Myers late last month, wielding a 30-foot-long fruit-picking apparatus fashioned from PVC pipe, an old pool skimmer and the base of a pole saw. I heard my mom ...

Two types of people live in South Florida: Those who have mangoes and those who wish they had mangoes. (This story isn’t for mango haters!) South Florida’s warm climate makes it one of the few areas ...

As the days get longer and the temperatures rise, it is time to gear up for the joys of a Florida summer. What joys, you ask? Florida mango season, that wonderful time of year when backyard mango ...

Growing, blooming and fruiting in the heat of summer, enduring the cold of winter and the fury of hurricanes, mangoes have made this land their home — the warm, southern extreme of South Florida ...

So goes the first line of a Jamaican folk song celebrating the arrival of mango season, a melody that brings back sweet childhood memories. Loosely translated it means “I don’t have breakfast during ...

Mango is a Census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, with a population of 11,228. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.90% of residents identify as ...

I stood outside my childhood home in Fort Myers late last month, wielding a 30-foot-long fruit-picking apparatus fashioned from PVC pipe, an old pool skimmer and the base of a pole saw. I heard my mom ...