When deciding, consider flavor, texture, ripening time, disease resistance and pollination needs. "Many apple trees are best pollinated by bees, so encouraging pollinators will help your apple," says ...

Despite the lower yield, growers maintain that juices and local craft cider will still be flowing.

Illinois and the surrounding states are full of family-owned, often multigenerational orchards where urbanites can live out ...

From Bramley's Seedling to St Edmund's Pippin and Greensleeves, there are plenty of apple varieties to enjoy during the ...

The Independent Multitaskers Monoecious trees such as oak are the multitaskers of the tree world — a single tree bears both ...

BeeHero cofounder Omer Davidi gave AgFunderNews the lowdown on precision pollination at the World Agri-Tech innovation summit ...

Did you know one of the best trees for fall foliage is actually ... Because of fire blight, a disease affecting pear and apple trees, the Callery pear was introduced in breeding programs to ...

In the third in a series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge plants damsons, figs, apples and walnuts — a gift to future generations ...

October is a time of garden transition. Summer ends and fall begins. Toward the middle of the month, when the air cools and ...

Some squash, pumpkin and potato farmers in the Pioneer Valley are bearing the burden of a soil-based disease described by one ...