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

We know commercial apples need pollination to set an adequate crop, and most of them can’t pollinate themselves. We know ...

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 ...

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

Move over, Honeycrisp. We asked apple growers, marketers, and breeders to share the new varieties they’re most excited about.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...