When it comes to harvesting, fruit usually falls into one of two categories: the type that continues to ripen off the tree, and the type that doesn’t. In the former category, it's best to harvest ...

Home growers can prepare gardens now for a delicious vegetable known as one of the earliest fruits of the year - which could be ready as early as March. Rhubarb is delicious in a number of ways, such ...

Avocado, guava, jaboticaba, mango and starfruit — though their flavors are exotic, they can easily be grown here in the home garden. These tropicals tolerate temperatures to around 27 degrees ...

Did you go to bed hungry last night? It”s a poignant question posed by Village Harvest-Woodland founders Dexter Quiggle, Bert Rinkel, Nick Pohl and Elliott Jones in their search for local sites to ...

Rike Raines, left, and her daughter Talia Raines, 14, of Riverton, pick quince for the festival. The Raines family are nearly self-sufficient, growing much of their produce including nuts, fruit, ...

Discover the art of fruit picking with our latest video on amazing fruit picking ideas! Learn how to efficiently gather your favorite fruits using innovative fruit picker tools. This guide will ...

Tohono O’odham elder Stella Tucker, who spread her knowledge about the art of saguaro fruit harvesting to all who wanted to learn, died Jan. 9. She was 71. Tucker died at Tucson Medical Center after a ...

With a few weeks left in the domestic melon season, Westside Produce/Classic Fruit is reflecting on another successful ...

For many business owners, getting the most out of staff is a perennial problem. In the case of fruit farmers, perhaps perennial is the wrong word: Workers show up for the summer harvest only. In a ...