APTOS >> The rare and experimental will be showcased Sunday, Jan. 10, at the annual fruit-tree scion exchange at Cabrillo College. Hosted by the Monterey Bay chapter of the California Rare Fruit ...

Keith Borglum likes to eat well. And that greed for ever more variety and freshness compels him to graft. Not the financial kind. The woody kind. The medical practice management consultant starts, ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

Thousands of varieties of trees, vines and shrubs bear edible fruit. Yet most people are familiar with only a small fraction of the vast array of food that can be grown. Some of the best-tasting ...

A step-by-step guide to cultivating delicious figs at home.

After being soaked, fruit tree cuttings contribute a deliciously fruity smoke to barbeques. Over the past several years, we’ve planted six dwarf fruit trees of various species on our small, half-acre ...