‘Grape’ expectations: It’s muscadine time in Louisiana

Muscadines ripening on the vine. (Photo by Kiki Fontenot/LSU AgCenter)
Grapes are one of the oldest and most extensively cultivated food crops in the world. The earliest archaeological evidence of the domesticated grape comes from an area between the Black Sea and Iran. Cultivated varieties were spread by humans through southern Greece to the Mediterranean region and on to Europe and the Americas. Grapes are typically consumed as fresh fruit, dried as raisins and as…

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