Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

A fruit tree guild sets all your plants up for optimal growth by creating a mini-ecosystem. Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight but pauses to decide which individual tomato is worth picking. Instead of ...

Mechanical harvesting of fruit trees represents a transformative approach to modern orchard management. By applying controlled vibrational excitations, these systems selectively detach ripe fruit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...