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 ...

MANCHESTER — The Red Arrow Diner is celebrating the brief season for Rainier cherries with a special dessert, Cherry Shortcake. In celebration of National Rainier Cherry Day — it's today, in case you ...

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 ...

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 ...