Jose Ramirez, an artist, elementary schoolteacher and residential orchardist, takes a walk through his backyard. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Artist-teacher-gardener Jose Ramirez never ...

Artist-teacher-gardener Jose Ramirez never considered a lawn for his Boyle Heights neighborhood home in Los Angeles. Instead, he created a smorgasbord landscape of fruit. This is no ordinary orchard, ...

The CUSG Environmental Board awarded a $90,000 Sustainable CU grant to fund the Buffs Backyard Orchard project. The project broke ground in early September. This sustainable orchard will transform the ...

HAMPTON FALLS — Lillia James is not your average fourth-grader. The 9-year-old is turning apples into gold with her apple-based delicacies, such as apple sauce, apple butter and apple pie, from the ...

Everything you need to know for adding fruit trees and shrubs to your backyard orchard. The first step for most new food gardeners is the addition of a few vegetable and herb plants. Once they’re ...

The seeds of history took root in the Boulder Apple Tree Project and are now blossoming in the Buffs Backyard Orchard. In 2017, the Boulder Apple Tree Project began as a way to locate, catalog and ...