The Olive Us sibs (Maude, Olive, Oscar, Ralph, Betty & June) head out to La Galotière in Normandy, France to watch how apples are picked on a Cider Farm.

In the archives: french bakeries and making snoballs, plus more apples.

Maude, Olive, and Betty of Olive Us make Snoball Cookies with the help of filmmakers Tiger in a Jar. You can find the recipe here.

Raspberry Tart, another video treat prepared by mother/daughter team Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini of The Cook’s Atelier in Burgundy, France, and filmed by Matt and Julie of Tiger in a Jar. The recipe is here.

Previously from this team, a farm to table salad. Plus more baking vids in the archives.

From the BBC series Life, meet the Sarcastic Fringehead as Sir David Attenborough narrates. 

More from Discovery.com: 

This small, scrappy fish found along the Pacific Coast from San Francisco to Baja California, Mexico, maintains a relatively small zone of personal space around its home, usually a shell, a can or a bottle. When an intruder invades that space, the fringehead attacks fearlessly and aggressively, baring its teeth and snapping its jaws… 

Why invest so much time and energy into keeping away unwanted solicitations? Because in the fringehead’s preferred habitat — on sandy or muddy ocean bottoms just beyond the breaker zone — competition for resources is fierce. To ensure they get their fair share of food and space, fringeheads stake out a territory that they can realistically defend… Some scientists estimate they consume almost 14 times their body weight per year.

via Neatorama.

Greg the Gardener in Queensland, Australia, shows how he harvests a large bunch of almost-ripe Lady Finger bananas.

Want to grow your own? SFGate has a quick starter guide for growing the dwarf variety indoors, with lots of related links…