Widely known and loved, this apple was randomly found by Maria Ann “Granny” Smith in Australia in 1839. The heritage fruit spread to become one of the world’s most popular varieties.

Apples are the most-consumed fruit for Americans, but there are a dizzying array of varieties to choose from. Red Delicious was once at the top, but no longer.

Paul Locher explains how valuable apples were on the frontier of Ohio Country in the early 1800s, and how settlers improved ...

A crispness has returned to Minnesota’s night air signaling that fall and the harvest season is upon us. It also means it is apple time. Hutchinson lies in the southwest corner of a growing ...

The Malus coronaria learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties ... major apple-growing counties in the top three U.S. apple ...