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The Best Way to Store Any Fruit or Vegetable

With so much produce at our fingertips this season, it's time for a refresher on the proper way to store various fruits and vegetables.

Our Picks for Apple Orchards

Apple-picking season is in full swing! There's an added pleasure to biting into the crisp and juicy apples of fall when you know that you'v...

How To Prune Your Fruit Trees

A simple way to prune your fruit trees during the winter.

Birding: Researchers find that migrating birds prefer native plants over invasives

The higher fat content of native plants is a crucial source of energy.

Cleaning up the orchard.

Should I do “spring cleaning” in the orchard before spring comes? Keeping a “clean” looking orchard is more than just cosmetic, it is a sanitary practice that will result in a more plentiful, bett…

The high-hanging fruit is reachable. The question is how soon?

To decarbonize sectors such as steel and long-distance transport, we need to take partial steps in the short term, such as increased efficiency, reduced demand and greater circularity, while also investing in new technology and infrastructure for the long term.

There is something unique about Old Orchard Beach…

Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Easily accessible from Boston and other points south in New England (you don’t even need a car if you take the Amtrak Downeaster), the closest sandy beach to our nei…

Everyone Must Do These 15 Incredible Things At Maine's Old Orchard Beach

Head to Old Orchard Beach for some good ol' fashioned Maine summer fun!

Specialty Equipment: Orchards & Vineyards

As farmers convert massive amounts of acreage to orchards and vineyards, abandoning annual crops like tomatoes and rice, farming equipment is changing as well.

Learn how to can and freeze peaches during workshop at Terhune Orchards

Terhune Orchards has baskets overflowing with just-picked peaches ready for guests to take home to create peach recipes. Pam’s Canning & Freezing Class will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 13 at the orchard, Cold Soil Road, Princeton. In order to maintain social distancing for this in-person demonstration, space will be limited so pre-purchase $10 […]

A robot that picks apples? Replacing humans worries union

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States.That system eventually could change dramatically as at least two companies are rushing to get robotic fruit-picking

Can't-Miss Fall Food Festivals

In the Golden Isles, we don’t just eat to live, we live to eat. Any true Southerner will wholeheartedly agree that food is more than just a meal; it’s a way of life. And with our prime location on the

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Introducing baby’s first foods

There are endless exciting firsts in your baby’s life, from the first smile and laugh, to the first time he or she sits up or speaks. It can be

The Many Benefits of Cooling your Apple Crop Webinar

Brad Holliday is a Territory Sales Manager at Jain Irrigation with Almost 30 years of agronomic experience. He holds a Crop Consultants License for the Oregon Department of Agriculture and most of his career has been in production agriculture with an emphasis in seed crops such as onions and garlic. Brad has been part of the Jain Team for over 5 years and has spent a lot of time working with apple growers to help determine ‘best-practices’ to cool their apple crop.

How To Plant and Transplant Trees