Many homeowners enjoy growing their own fruit, but they have also learned that they require a lot of care to approach the quality of products obtained from a commercial orchard or grocery store.

Apple growers in the eastern U.S. have a despised enemy known as apple scab — a disease caused by a fungus that forms ugly brown or greenish-black pockmarks on the fruit's skin. A scabby apple is ...

Our Test Kitchen’s trick research-backed as the most effective way to remove pesticides. Whether you scored your apples from a tree in your backyard, an orchard, a farmers market, or the supermarket, ...

Peeling an apple before eating it may be your best defense against pesticides. An apple a day … could be filling your body with pesticides. A new study suggests that washing fruit, a precautionary ...

Thanks to the Trump administration, farmers who raise Christmas trees are feeling a bit merrier this holiday season. Christmas tree growers, like many other agricultural producers, have benefited from ...

As far as the world’s food chain is concerned, safeguarding food crops is crucial, and pesticides are a vital tool to repel, kill, and bring pests under control. On a yearly basis, around two million ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 16, 2022) Putting up with moderate pest levels can attract and maintain predators and parasitoids that provide important biological control services throughout the ...

An apple a day … could be filling your body with pesticides. A new study suggests that washing fruit, a precautionary measure taken by many consumers, is not enough to remove toxic chemicals and ...