Art: Exploring the history of fruit. By Jessica Werner Zack, Special to The Chronicle Nov 5, 2008. ... How did the Gravenstein apple travel from its roots in the hills of Kazakhstan to Marin County?

From the "Great Cranberry Scare" of 1959 to the cantaloupe-linked salmonella outbreak in 2023, the history of fruit recalls spans decades and impacts a variety of produce, from small berries to ...

Photograph by Flickr user Jeen Na. European settlers brought apples, and apple seeds, with them to America. Colonial apple trees were cultivated to produce cider more than for eating the fruit ...

05/31/2019 May 31, 2019. As mundane as the apple may seem, its history involves enormous animals, the Ice Age, the Silk Road and a huge role in the stories we tell.

ATHENS -- On a fine day at the University of Georgia Heritage Apple Orchard, you can see the fringing peaks of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest rising around like a hedgerow, ...

The apple tree only produces fruit from early autumn to winter in the northern ... Even if you know nothing about British history, The Apple makes sure to provide plenty of context for each twist ...

National Apple Day is celebrated on Oct. 21 every year Apples are part of the rose family Apples are not originally from the U.S. and can be traced as back as 6500 BC. Wednesday marks the National ...

The fruit also pops up in traditional Ayurvedic medicine, dating back about 1,500 years in southern Asia. The popularity of the phrase has not been lost on modern science, either.

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture recently predicted U.S. apple production for 2023-24 (August 2023-July 2024) will come in at 9.9 billion pounds, up 1.5% from a year ago.

Genotyping techniques can be used to select fruit trees with desired traits at the ... revealed that integrating genomic data obtained with different genotyping systems can effectively combine with ...

Before Onderdonk’s successful nursery, it was believed fruit could not be grown in this section of Texas, the Texas State Historical Association wrote. For Subscribers Only ...