For a lot of people, there’s nothing more “holistic” or “natural” than going to an apple orchard and picking their favorite fall fruit themselves. But the truth is, when you shine up that ...

An investigation into the Honeycrisp apple and how a complex string of events led to a decline in the quality of a beloved apple variety. It was a chilly Saturday morning in October, and at my ...

My hero is Larry Enter. Enter is a Master Gardener from Watertown who grows perfect apples on his 155 trees. Apples from my two trees turn out…let’s just say “less than perfect.” Enter ...

A smooth transition between the 2023/2024 apple crop into the 2024/2025 crop has the apple category moving in a positive direction.

The “Malus coronaria” fights frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or red delicious. “We found that the native ...