How do you like them apples? We're guessing sweet and tart: Honeycrisp has become the gold standard of apples. Why it matters: Honeycrisp "changed everything," says Jim Bair, the president and CEO of ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. Cool, fall temperatures will prevail this week as Halloween is next Thursday and we say goodbye to October. Did you know October is National Apple Month?

And I did, for several years, until I noticed that the Honeycrisp apples I bought were, with increasing frequency, a miss.

Every time you bite into a Honeycrisp apple, setting off an explosion of crunch and sweetness in your mouth, you can thank the ever-patient fruit breeders at the University of Minnesota. It’s easy to ...