“Everybody expected to have a great year,” said Elide Santos, who owns Dragon Fruit Nature Farms, north of Homestead, with her uncle. “But nobody made money.” The problem? Too much dragon ...

Ramiro Lobo is a farm adviser with UC Cooperative Extension, and he's been doing field trials of dragon fruit plants in San Diego. Lobo said when he was a kid, the fruit grew wild in arid parts of ...