The line of hungry Washington State University students and faculty numbered more than 50 well before Jeremy Tamsen had ...

The not-so-humble apple is one of the world's most varied fruits, with more than 7,500 known varieties worldwide. Around 2,500 of these grow in the United States, and 100 are grown commercially — a ...

Apples have a long history in the United States, but some regions are more gung ho about their love affair. This state ...

You know that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and that your loved one is the apple of your eye. But if we dared to ask you to list names of apples, ...

Lawmakers in Olympia are evaluating a new initiative to preserve rare and historic apple varieties still found on small family farms.

The newest Washington apple variety will remain nameless for a few more months, but consumers are still in line to get theirs by the end of the decade. Washington State University hopes to name the ...

Gold Ridge Organic Farms just gave late summer a proper anchor: the Fourth Annual Heirloom Apple Festival lands Saturday, Sept. 20, 10 a.m. — 3 p.m., in Sebastopol. It’s family‑friendly, hands‑on, and ...

Produce executives at supermarkets are responding to the rapid growth of branded apples by re-thinking shelf and distribution strategies. Scan data reports for U.S. supermarkets that while ...

A couple of years ago, one of the rarest apple trees in North America was discovered in Ron and Jeanne Russell’s Verona Island backyard. Perched crookedly on a hill overlooking the Penobscot River, ...

High in the mountains of Nyingchi, a city in Tibet, apples grow that look strikingly different from the varieties found in ...