In ancient Greece, a hole was drilled in the trunks of almond trees into which plugs of pine tree wood were inserted.

Merced College is celebrating a major step as students planted more than 1,000 almond trees across 10 acres of land.

Walk through most Indian cities today and the pattern becomes obvious: buildings are rising faster than trees. Urban planning ...

What we’re building here is a true living classroom,” said Cody Jacobsen, Merced College’s dean of agriculture and industrial ...

Growing your own peaches is easier than it seems.

Cobram Estate Olive Oil announced in Decemeber it would acquire California Olive Ranch. The deal would bring the state’s two ...

Michael Clements fondly recalls the days when harvest time at his family’s vast almond orchard, meant laying sheets underneath the trees, and tapping them with a mallet until every loose nut was ...

Open the pages of “The Hospital at the End of the World,” and readers will likewise find a completely unrecognizable New ...

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. Soon the blooms would need spraying, and he would feed all 105 acres with the ...

Araceli Aceves Cortés used to get by working in the fields and orchards of the Sacramento Valley.

As more Americans rethink their skin care rituals, the rise of clean beauty is inspiring a shift toward pure, intentional ...