USA TODAY spoke with apple breeders, growers and researchers to find the secrets of one of America's most popular fruits.

Pruning apple trees has many benefits. It can prevent damaged tree limbs from harming other branches and increase airflow between branches, reducing potential fungal diseases, says Eric North, program ...

Last summer we wrote about some of the benefits of planting fruit trees for whitetail deer. This week we’ll look at some ...

The seeds that you remove from your apple slices can actually be planted into the ground and, within about ten years, you'll ...

Rather than picturing the Spirit’s fruit as a homemade pie that depends on its ingredients, we are to picture it as a tree. A fruitful tree is dependent on external factors to survive and thrive.

Before the 1980s, there were usually three varieties of apples available: red, yellow and green. Growing up, Bedford mostly ...

Apple trees, like many perennial plants, endure a prolonged juvenile stage before reaching maturity, during which they ...

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Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis ...

As the rest of our culture thrives on overexposure, why shouldn’t a garden have the right to retain an air of mystery?