You can harvest luscious peaches, crisp apples and sweet plums right off your own tree. Garden designer and fruit expert Colby Eierman’s Fruit Trees In Small Spaces (Timber Press, 2012) shows how ...

Q: I am planning a permaculture garden on my half-acre lot. I know it’s best to plant fruit trees first. Which fruit trees fare best in this region? I would love apple, peach, plum, cherry and ...

The new “The Home Orchard” covers more crops and site selection, variety choice, pruning, grafting, irrigation and integrated ...

Every year, more and more people are revamping their yards to bring in new plants, shrubs and trees that will not only make their landscape beautiful, but will also help feed their family. In many ...

This July and August I have been enjoying the fruits of past orchard plantings at our home in Morada. I had a large half-acre fruit orchard where I previously lived and I had 60-70 fruit trees. Hence, ...

At Miracle Farms, one farmer is on a mission to show the world that permaculture–a food production system that models itself on the natural world–can work on a commercial scale. What’s the most ...

From your donor tree, take a stem cutting—also called a scion. This is the portion that will grow into the main tree, with the desirable DNA traits you're looking to reproduce (as opposed to the ...

-- A tree orchard in the urban setting of Beecher is something Jacky and Dora King have been waiting on for a long time. On Sunday, their vision will become a reality. The Kings, neighbors and ...

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Des Moines is planning a public fruit tree orchard in Drake Park, which would allow community members to pick fruit for free. The project involves collaboration between city officials, urban farmers, ...