Before Slow Food came on the scene here in the US many of us were unaware that there were regional fruits that needed saving. Now there is actually a system for endangered edibles. Take the ...

A mother-daughter duo delivered a one-two punch at this year’s Gravenstein Apple Fair pie baking contest. Jody McNaughton of Santa Rosa took first place for her Gravenstein apple-cranberry pie, while ...

Victory was a long time coming for Susan Sheehan, but it made her win in the apple pie baking contest on Aug. 10 at the Gravenstein Apple Fair all that much sweeter. Sheehan, 55, had entered the ...

I have lived in the Napa Valley for most of my adult life, and one fall tradition I had yet to check off my bucket list was a visit to El Dorado County’s Apple Hill. We prioritized a day trip with the ...

If the Red Delicious apple was hard to grow and had at most a three week harvest window, we safely predict the farmers market cognoscenti would be making at-dawn market runs to the one or two vendors ...

SEASONS CAN AND DO BLEND TOGETHER, and they certainly do so in the Golden State, where warm winter afternoons in the desert and chilly summer mornings along the coast can send a person running to the ...

Apple trees are some of the loveliest in the world, as are their close relatives, the crabapples. Their blossoms in spring are intoxicating, and no wonder — they belong to the Rosaceae family, which ...