Brian Minter: Persimmons are trees of the future

About a year ago, I wrote about edible figs, and Jim Gilbert of Northwoods Nursery in Oregon was a great source of information. At the time, he said if I ever did an article on persimmons, I was to count him in.
So, I called him recently, and we had a conversation about persimmons and why they continue to grow in popularity and are now pretty much mainstream.
Gilbert said that once you’ve eaten a persimmon, it’s very easy to acquire a taste for them. Not only that, but they are, perh