Sounds like you moved to a friendlier fruit growing climate! Good for you getting all these new experiences!
Those big figs look like breba and the main crop are the tiny ones forming. The way the mulberry is pruned is very interesting. Looks like a real old tree.
How is that so, that they don’t have any disease or insect pressure??
How was the process to move there, did you receive citizenship? I might be considering a move 
Some of the articles are from 2019, but they give a general idea
In europe they use tremendously less pesticides and herbicides and they make an effort not to kill beneficial insects. They use less herbicides, pesticides and fungicides and produce more food. They also keep there food more local and supply chains do not break the same way as it does in our monopolized system.
@Katie_didnt_Z4b @anon18642480 There is definitely much higher bar in the EU for registering and using pesticides than the US and most other countries, which personally I think is a good thing. I find the EPA has often times done a lousy job in protecting us from harmful chemicals and pollutants. Having said that, regulation can go too far, like prohibiting people from using any pesticide in their backyards (if that is true). Finally, disease and insect pressures in southern EU (France, Italy, Spain, Turkey) are much lower than most of the US, probably comparable to the dry parts of CA and AZ, which makes it much easier to grow organic.
Agreed @Ahmad See and i think many backyard people are part of the problem. Not very many people are well versed in IPM or what the downhill affects of the products they spray are. You will find many people who will spray pesticides herbicides fungicides near blooming flowers and a product i would like to bring up like triazicide which is easily available here and is not in europe. Why? Because it kills predators for far longer than it kills pests and most pests are already immune, So when we here in the us use this product preventatively for insect control we are also assuring that we remove all the predators. So then we can go into why is disease pressure lower?
Its like this every hunter can tell you that us removing all of the deers natural predators will make the deer population explode and every hunter will affirm that they are needed to stop the deer from getting out of control. If we said we are going to wipe out deer but we decide to use a chemical product that kills 2 deer and 1 hunters i think everyone will understand the end result is a lot of deer.
They both are very old; yes I live in the fruit growing region of France. On purpose !
I don ‘t know about the insects that much, as of yet. It is very difficult to buy pesticides here. I finally picked up a box of copper, for my peach tree. It was very hard to find. The plants are very healthy and the weather is amazing. We are in the middle of apricot season and the first peaches came in last Saturday. The fruit here is magnificent .
I am an American citizen and that will not change. I am becoming a French resident. This is where my home is and where I live. Paper work, lots of it !
I wouldn’t trade my place for anything in the world, choices here in the US are greater than anywhere. Work in Switzerland for a few years, worked with multi national engineers, took French in high school, came in handy with that job, developed decent communications with them. That’s all I like there. Spend a lot of vacations in Europe, like Portugal the best, France not so much and others.
mrsg47 I was wondering how you can tell when the white mulberry are ripe? I’m assuming they swell but color doesn’t offer much clue. Thanks.
When they turn white, taste sweet and start falling off the tree 
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Thank’s!
It was interesting, they become very plump and a little yellowish.