In the Box
Starting new trees Dear Good Fruit Grower: Kudos to you and Tim Smith for helping growers get their trees started
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WSU team writes “best paper” Washington State University Extension enologist Jim Harbertson and colleagues received an award for the 2009
Keeping cherry growing profitable
A “dream team” of cherry researchers from across the nation is working on a project designed to help assure the
Cigar box labels preceded fruit box labels
In the late 1800s, cigar labels were embossed and gilded with gold leaf or bronzing. The rationale for eye-catching, well-designed
Wanted: Endangered apples
Walking through the Maine Heritage Orchard in Unity, Maine, is like walking through a Noah’s Ark for apples. The orchard,
Maine apples wanted
John Bunker examines an apple at the Sandy River Orchard, Mercer, Maine, with 90-year-old Francis Fenton, owner (in blue). These
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Harold Thome is Pomesters’ Fruit Man of the Year Harold Thome, a fourth-generation apple grower on Fruit Ridge near Comstock
Benefits of tunnels
Greg Lang explains how he removes buds in order to develop a whorl of limbs around the tree axis. High
The KGB revealed
In the late 1990s, Oregon cherry growers began planting pedestrian orchards, utilizing training systems developed in Europe to grow small
Last Bite–From doctor to farmer
The altimeter on John Kloeber’s label at right shows an altitude of 1,500 feet, a suggestion that fruit grown in