Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything you need to know about 85 types of apples, from heirlooms like Ashmead’s Kernel to new creations like Gala. Greg Dupree ...

People in a village have come together to plant a range of rare heritage apple trees. A community orchard has been created in Barford St Martin, Wiltshire, where ancient varieties such as Bedwyn ...

Spokane County’s hardworking apple detective has rediscovered five more heritage apple varieties in Washington and Idaho that were previously considered to be extinct. In addition, seven other rare or ...

CORVALLIS, Mont. — In the early 1900's especially, the Bitter Root Valley grew several hundred varieties of fruit trees, most of them apple. But many of those antique fruits were lost or forgotten.

Lost Apple Project founder David Benscoter will be speaking next month about the heritage apple varieties once grown across the Northwest, the decline of thousands of cultivars, and the survival of ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho — Harvest is later than ever at the University of Idaho’s 8-acre heritage apple orchard. Superintendent and operations manager Kyle Nagy and assistant operations manager Kent ...

Under the protective canopy of an apple tree, Merlin pondered the supernatural effects of wizardry and Sir Isaac Newton composed his laws of gravitation. The apple, in literature and history, has been ...

PORT ONEIDA, MICH. -- Of all the incredible natural treasures to be found at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, rare apple varieties are not among the obvious. But heirloom apple trees are ...

Defining what makes an apple "heirloom" — and deciding when it's simply old, or pocked, misshapen or colored outside the norms of commercial apple production — is open to debate, even within the apple ...

ALTAMONT, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A Heritage Apple Orchard is being built in Guilderland to honor the town’s agricultural impact on American History. Local leaders gathered alongside members of the 250th ...