Volunteers added native plants to a grove of apple trees and eye adding other food producing plants in the future.

Warm/cool/warm/cool … June weather can be all over the place, from overcast gray “June gloom” drizzles to bright, hot sunny ...

A good starting apple to grow here is the Gravenstein. This heirloom variety was once the most popular fruit grown in ...

And if the weather impact is not insignificant for larger orchards like Carlson’s, small farms are at a greater disadvantage ...

Erin Robinson, a Dummerston native, grew up in the 1980s. Her mother, Teri Robinson, taught for decades at Dummerston ...

Apple growers in Northern Michigan are facing an unpredictable season as they assess the impact of a long winter and a slow ...

Want fresh fruit year-round? Discover 19 indoor fruit trees that thrive indoors, offering delicious produce with easy care tips for successful growth.

How do the apples keep from rotting? It’s all about maintaining the perfect temperature and oxygen levels, and that depends ...

A CU ecology professor noticed an apple tree in a Boulder field. What happened next grew into something bigger.

Additionally, this lovely tree is drought-tolerant. In contrast, custard apple trees have a more restrictive range where they are winter hardy. You can grow these trees outside in Zones 10-11. They ...

Many healthy fruit trees, including apples trees, drop fruit naturally in early summer in what is known as the 'June drop'. This, in gardening terms, refers to natural shedding of fruitlets ...