Fruits News

Blake McLeod, also known as "Mr. Bubbles" pouring samples for Jhance and Deanne Whitemere of Evansville, Ind.

Fears of a potential farm labor shortage have caused San Joaquin Valley growers to boost wages to as much as $10 an hour this year to attract and keep workers for the harvest season.

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial kickoff to summer and with that, barbecue season.

Rodney Winkel, 66, of Watervliet checks frost damage on grape buds Thursday. 'Any little thing that goes wrong, you're out,' he explained.

Hilary Scott meets the hotel kitchen duo who beat some of the big names in the world of chocolate at the recent Academy of Chocolate awards I am standing in a room that would make a chocolate lover swoon.

At Queenstown Public House , the latest project by the owners of Bareback Grill , you can score a solid lamb burger , but if you're looking for something a bit lighter, or simply feel uncomfortable munching ground lamb in plain sight of the fluffy little sheep happily grazing on the ceiling , try the Big Bowl .

I've heard that I should prune my tomato plants. Is that true, and how do I prune tomato plants? Answer: The truth is that there is no definite "yes or no" answer as to whether or not you should prune your tomato plants.

If you're willing to take the time to share your opinion online, it's often because you have something pointlessly negative to say.

Ken Halverson from Larken Farms Orchard brought a few boxes of the season's first peaches to the White Rock Local Market over the weekend.

AN 'EDIBLE road' of fruit trees sprang up in Forest Hill over the weekend in a bid to encourage home-grown fruit and veg.

Still More Names for Animals? Are You Serious? by Carnita Groves is a must read. Even though the book is dedicated to ranchers, cowboys, cowgirls, farmers, and wranglers, anyone wanting to know more about animals will enjoy reading the book.

The 25th annual Manatee Rare Fruit Council's Rare Fruit Tree Sale was once again a huge hit Sunday with residents and visitors alike.

Beekeeper Don Cameron of Westham Island Apiary has all of his bees in production on this blueberry farm in Ladner.

BOULDER, Colo. - Ethan Welty is thinking ahead to harvest time as he cycles through tidy Boulder streets pointing out apple, plum and mulberry trees on public and private land.

This year's Fruity Friday is on 17 May, and a timely reminder of all the reasons why eating a plant based diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, whole-grains and pulses can protect against heart disease, type-2 diabetes and a number of cancers in later life.

May 17, 2013 - LEESBURG, Va. -- Come celebrate the event that launched Great Country Farms 20 years ago.

At a sprawling central Colombia coffee laboratory and research facility - full of coffee plants trapped in jars and shimmering test-tubes - workers poked their heads out of cubicles to share the latest news from Central America and Mexico.

When I was growing up, for special occasions in the summertime, my mom would bake a raspberry-rhubarb pie.

A watermelon nestled in a bicycle helmet was dropped several feet to the ground, making a dull thunk as several children on bikes looked closer.

Syarikat Cegah Padu Enterprise ,a Bumiputera company, is undertaking the planting of watermelons with the fasting month as the target market.