In 2016, when Nicole Yamanaka moved into her grandparents’ old house in Mountain View, she and her then-­fiancé, Byron, became the proud caretakers of two large Hachiya persimmon trees in the yard.

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“What if I need to go out of town?” asked one thumbnail-sized person on my Zoom screen. “Should I bring the persimmons with me?” He sounded concerned. “They’ll be okay on their own for a few days,” ...

A resident inspects peeled persimmons hung together to dry at a farm in Sancheong, South Gyeongsang, southeastern South Korea, on Dec. 3, 2025. Dried persimmons, called "gotgam" in Korean, are a ...