Appeal launched to buy Nottinghamshire cottage, where tree was planted in 19th century, and turn it into heritage centre ...

Every autumn, I begin to crave generic seasonal comforts: the hues of turning leaves, the chill of sweater weather. I’m not really a pumpkin-spice person, but I’m a sucker for a classic u-pick apple ...

Suppose you start your own apple orchard on the cheap. You harvest the seeds from a single apple that you love and plant them in the ground. Next spring, six apple tree seedlings come up — success! A ...

On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...

I was born in April, the month most associated with spring, but it’s impossible not to love May just as much. May is the month of blossoms, when baby birds learn to fly and spring breezes whisper ...

A highly contagious disease that can wipe out an apple orchard threatens Connecticut’s fruit crop. But there’s help on the way. Fire blight, a bacteria that gets into the apple tree as it is flowering ...

After months of watering, pruning, and watching your apple tree fill up with fruit, it's tempting to rush out and start plucking them. But not every shiny apple is ready to leave the branch just yet.

Katharine Suding’s children arrived home one day in 2017 with a small bag of apples from an unkempt old apple tree that sat in the middle of a field near her home in Louisville. Suding, an ecology ...