Hidden amongst mossy crags on an uninhabited outer-Hebridean island of Scotland’s west coast, a rare example of a pure European crab apple tree species has been surviving, likely since the end of the ...

In 1900 Vermont was about 75 percent open farm land and only about 25 percent forest. Since then those percentages have reversed, and Vermont is now mostly forest land. During that transition time, ...

This week, we're revisiting two essays originally produced in 2014 and 2015. The Robert Frost poem, Unharvested, is read by Sean Hurley. October brings crisp air and crisp apples. An October tradition ...

Bunker has spent more than 30 years learning about, promoting, identifying and propagating apples. One (almost) sure-fire way to tell a wild apple tree from a domestic one: Look for the graft, said ...

Apples are from Central Asia. But that doesn’t guarantee they will survive there forever. Climate change and human activity are threatening the wild apple with “local and regional extinction” in its ...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. If you know where to look in the fall, you’ll find patches of ground turned red with wild apples in certain parts of Ithaca, New York. Steve Selin knows where ...

I recently spent 3 hours in an old wild apple tree, bringing it new life. Apple trees need to be pruned from time to time, and this one had not been worked on for several years. Even wild apples, ...