Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an apple tree. It may be gnarly, with limbs clawing ...

Everything you need to know about 85 types of apples, from heirlooms like Ashmead’s Kernel to new creations like Gala. Greg Dupree / Photo Illustration by Sabrina Tan There are over 7,500 apple ...

Most of the apple trees planted in the past century, called old-timeor full-size, can live 75 years or longer, even under conditions of complete neglect. The apple sleuths questioned elderly gardeners ...

The cultivars (varieties) were often hearty mountain stock with the genetic chops to hack it in the face of the Blue Ridge's tempestuous weather. An apple cultivar is classified as "antique" if it's ...

ASBURY, N.J. — Ironbound Hard Cider may seem an odd name for the business Charles Rosen has built here on 108 acres in central New Jersey. The farm, where a new taproom offers pastoral views of the ...

A Kidlington Orange' or a Hall's Watlington Seedling'? Or an apple tree you suspect is more than 50 years old? If so, then you have a contribution to make to the history of orchards in Oxfordshire and ...

When you buy cider, you're probably expecting something natural and cloudy like you might pick up from a New England apple orchard. But, in some states, there's no real difference between apple juice ...