Though it may seem like a daunting task, there are plenty of fruit trees that even a beginner gardener can grow in their yard. Beyond free food, planting a fruit tree in your yard helps to reduce your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ripe apples hanging in a tree - Luis Alvarez/Getty Images After months of watering, pruning, and watching your apple tree fill up ...

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 ...

The Malus coronaria learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red Delicious. A key to protecting apples ...

Sarah Lott Zost’s great-grandfather planted his first apple tree in 1927 in Gardners, Pennsylvania. Nearly a century later, the fourth-generation farmer is facing a never-seen-before challenge in ...

For most people on my street, the old apple tree was simply part of the neighborhood. It stood near the edge of my elderly ...

Dutch fruit growers are projecting a significantly smaller apple crop this year even as pear production rises sharply, ...