Jana Duggar and husband Stephen Wissmann announced the birth of their first child, a son born Dec. 30, in Lincoln.

North Carolina’s winter growing season continues, and farmers across the state are harvesting a variety of fresh, locally grown produce. Apples, spinach and carrots are currently in season, offering c ...

Dreaming of harvesting peaches, plums, apples or figs from your own backyard? Growing delicious homegrown fruit starts with ...

Winter isn’t the ideal season for pruning trees in Upstate New York, but it’s the best time to cut scion or twigs from ash trees in parts of the state where the species has been all but wiped out.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Or, so it is said. Regardless of whether the age-old idiom is literally true, apples are a staple of cuisines and cultures around the world. Now, science is ...

It’s not easy growing Christmas trees in Alabama. The famous Frasier Fir, one of the most popular Christmas trees, grows best in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and many Alabamians who put ...

GREENFIELD — Knowing it can take an apple tree anywhere from two to 10 years to bear fruit, the owners of Tuttle Orchards started years ago making changes to prepare for growth in the coming years.

Points North, a podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Upper Great Lakes, is produced by Interlochen Public Radio. Subscribe and listen to Points North wherever you find podcasts: Apple ...

Apple trees are typically created by grafting a cutting (or scion) from the desired variety to the rootstock of another variety. It took ramblings on back roads scouting for old homesteads, locating ...

Luke Marion is on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan looking for apple trees. It’s a sunny day in March, kind of coldish with snow on the ground. When Marion finds a tree, he takes out a pair of pruners ...

Autumn is a time for apple picking, pumpkin spice everything (yes, I’m on that side of the debate), final garden harvests and tree planting. While April gets a lot of attention for being Arbor Month, ...