Here's everything you need to know to start your own home orchard.

June is a funny month in Southern California gardens. Along the coast, “June gloom” makes for humid, cool, gray mornings. The ...

Another way to reduce humidity in the plant canopy is by watering through drip irrigation or soaker hoses. This keeps ...

On a crisp spring morning, Peter LoVerso and CJ Johnson were deep in the Crooked River National Grassland near Madras. They stood squinting into the sunlight, across a barbed wire fence from rows of ...

Apple trees are relatively easy to grow with a little labor invested in pruning, protecting the trunks before winter and ...

Growing these plants near apples can attract pests and other problems that could harm your trees. Do not plant black walnuts, eastern red cedars, junipers, and hawthorns near apple trees. Avoid ...

In Central Oregon, two cider makers have launched a nonprofit called Heritage Apple Corp, turning their passion for apples into a broader mission to restore and preserve orchards on remote public ...

An unseasonably warm March and successive hard freezes around April 17 of this year spelled a combination too weird and ...

When we worry about fungicide residues, we often forget what those agents are meant to hold back: fungi that make their own potent toxins. The food-safety question is not whether we can achieve ...

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Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Also known as the ...