If there’s anyone who knows what to do with lemons, it’s Margie Stark. The La Crescenta resident is the proud owner of a 45-year-old lemon tree that has for years provided culinary inspiration — from ...

Aug. 31—There's a cornucopia in Orlando Romero's Nambé backyard, and the feast has reached all the way to Santa Fe. To reap the rewards of an overzealous apricot tree, Romero invited eight ...

Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, weed management, or fertilizing because the carefully selected companion plants support and ...

If you’re a fan of summer stone fruit — and who isn’t? — there’s some good news. This year you won’t have to wait until summer to enjoy it. In fact, you ought to start checking the market now. It’s ...

Pruning dormant trees means a healthy crop next year. Growing fruit trees in the backyard can mean delicious homemade jams, fruit cobblers, fresh-squeezed juice, and home-grown goodness to add to any ...

The harvest of peaches, plums and nectarines is in full swing. Once these nectarines ripen, it's time to rapidly get them picked and packed for distribution. In just a few days these sweet fruits will ...

You’ve been eating it your whole life, and it’s perfectly OK.

Luke Jesperson stands on a ladder in a backyard in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, using a picking tool to pluck green apples from a tall tree. But it’s not his tree or his backyard. Jesperson is ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an ...

Apple, peach, plum and pear trees in the Durango area and the Animas watershed have been well watered over the summer, and it shows in the amount of fruit they are producing, according to members of ...