Fourth-generation farmer Kait Thornton insists that the wax you can scrape off an apple isn’t dangerous and you shouldn’t ...

“This may shock you guys that there is wax on store-bought apples,” she added. But it shouldn’t. To demonstrate why, Thornton ...

Washington Fruit Place ships apple gift boxes across the U.S. — a significant part of the Yakima-based fruit retailer’s ...

The most popular British culinary apple is the Bramley apple. Most commercial fruit is picked under-ripe and put into controlled atmosphere storage (keeping the apples in air that has a high ...

Pears gleam through red leaves. But the real stars are the apples – more than 4,000 trees, of more than 2,000 varieties. Their fruit clusters along wand-like branches and carpets the ground in a ...

The University of Georgia’s Heritage Apple Orchard is home to 138 varieties of heirloom apples that were once in circulation ...

Apple trees are commonly affected by fire blight, apple scab, fruit rots, rusts, and powdery mildew. Fire blight is a common problem in pears. Stone fruits are affected by peach leaf curl, bacterial ...