A shared map can help connect available food with people who can actually use it.

There’s something magical about growing your own sweet snacks and plucking a piece of fruit from a branch you’ve tended. But growing fruit trees requires considerable care and ...

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 ...

When it comes to harvesting, fruit usually falls into one of two categories: the type that continues to ripen off the tree, and the type that doesn't. In the former category, it's best to harvest ...

Thinning fruit trees in late June or early July ensures you get the best crop and the weight doesn't snap branches - here ...

Scientists have shown for the first time the widespread harm caused in Peru by cutting down the palm tree Mauritia flexuosa in order to harvest its fruit. The scientists examined where and why the ...

Farming is undergoing a remarkable transformation thanks to cutting-edge technologies reshaping how fruit is picked and handled. While autonomous drones like Tevel’s Flying Robots are already ...

Harvest season is here. Kansas State University horticulture expert Matt McKernan explains when to harvest onions and how to ...

Stone fruit are fruit with one large pit, or stone, at their center. Traditional stone fruit are apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums; novel hybrids aprium, pluot, and plumcot have been ...

Mechanical harvesting of fruit has evolved from simple beaters and trunk shakers to sophisticated systems integrating canopy shakers, pneumatic exciters and vibration-based end-effectors. Central to ...

As fruit trees across Winnipeg begin to grow for the season, Jesse Oberman has put flyers around the neighbourhood and is ...