Honeycrisp’s iconic crunch transformed the apple industry, but for the people who grow the finicky fruit, she’s ‘an absolute ...

If you want to plant fruit trees to enjoy the joys of homegrown harvests, the fall is a perfect time to do so. The ground ...

Move over, Honeycrisp and Red Delicious. We asked apple growers, marketers, and breeders which new apples to look out for at the grocery store, from Cosmic Crisp to Lucy.

Whatever way you slice it, there’s a lot of love for this fruit in Canada. But which apple variety is the most popular?

On a remote island in Lake Michigan, some old apple trees could have very rare, never-before-discovered genes. And if they do ...

The core problem is it’s finicky, growers say. ‘We’d be happy to replace it with something that’s a little more forgiving.’ When the Honeycrisp apple debuted in the 1990s, consumers responded ...

Apple orchards have changed. The large stout trees with thick gnarling branches of a few decades ago are now flimsy bushes ...

Mark Falcone, right, lifts his granddaughter Charlotte Murray, 2, to grab a Honeycrisp apple from the highest branches Oct. 1 at Bellewood Farms in Lynden. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News) LYNDEN ...

Apple-picking season is in full swing, and despite drought conditions causing small obstacles, family-owned orchard owners say the beautiful weather has brought customers out in droves.

If there's a convenient time to appear relatively unannounced on a farmer's doorstep, that time is assuredly not mid-October. Case in point, Howard Taylor, stepping out of his Toyota Tacoma with a ...

My husband is a Honeycrisp snob. If you’re not familiar with this, Honeycrisp is a kind of apple, and according to him, it is a superior apple. All other apples are lesser apples. He will not eat a ...

SPOKANE, Wash — They call it the Cosmic Crisp. It's not a video game, a superhero or the title of a Grateful Dead song. It's a new variety of apple, coming to a grocery store near you Dec. 1 Cosmic ...