Food, Outdoors, and Cold-Climate Gardening This Week... Picking Pawpaws Fig Pests Finding Lost Pawpaws Early-Bird Special - Save $50 Big Fig News! Happy Friday! Got ‘em! At least…most of them. The pawpaw fruit. The firmness of the fruit and your sense of smell are a good way to gauge pawpaw ripeness. The colour can change too…but sometimes the colour change is after they’ve become fragrant, and that’s too late if you have raccoons in the ‘hood. (I’ve heard of people wild-foraging pawpaws that...