Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...

As the calendar turns to spring with its lengthening days of warm sunshine, flowers begin to appear on fruit trees across Yakima Valley orchards. Early apricot blossoms are emerging in the Lower ...

Saturday's harvest total: 813 pounds of fruit. Even so, it hardly looks like the two dozen volunteers in matching red T-shirts made that much progress harvesting the 50-tree orchard. Many branches are ...

Fresh cherry season is fleeting -- typically late-May through July, early August if we're lucky. And enjoying the sweet little fruits is laborsome, but for cherry lovers, the hard work of stemming and ...

Harold Warman Fogle, 88, a fruit research scientist who developed the exquisite but expensive Rainier cherry in the 1950s and went on to become an investigations leader in the U.S. Department of ...

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world’s only daily column that’s rolling around on the floor with the dogs reveling in summer fruit and berries. We know we can do this sitting at the table, ...

As you stroll the aisles of your local nursery this time of year, you might find yourself getting hungry as you pass a portable orchard of apple, pear, plum, cherry and fig trees. As winter morphs ...

One of summer's most luscious, crave-worthy fruits, cherries top our list of seasonal favorites. And, lucky for fruit fans, there are several types of cherries to choose from, ranging from ...

NAMPA, Idaho — Are you looking for grow some fruit in your own back yard? KTVB Garden Master Jim Duthie has some tips on how to successfully do so. According to the National Gardening Association, 35 ...

Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...