The organic apple industry isn’t declining — far from it, said Kay. It just isn’t in California. The apple’s heyday in Sonoma County came in the 1940s and 1950s when nearly 15,000 acres of ...

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Lucky You Orchards showed off its pick-your-own organic apples on Sept. 10, 2022, near Ripon, California. The public can visit on weekends through October.

The damaged organic apples, however, can be safely used to make apple cider vinegar, Kay explained. But by mid-September, the tanks that hold the apple cider vinegar were at capacity, ...

But for me, growing organic apples is best. Perhaps that’s because they grew well in rural Idaho and its chill hours. Or. What are the most sustainable crops to grow for food security?

If fresh organic berries blow the budget, buy them frozen. They’re picked at peak ripeness, flash‑frozen within hours, and ...

For organic apples, that price is $4.39 per pound. “When I was in my 20s, as a big health nut, I only shopped at Whole Foods. I never paid that much per pound for organic apples at Whole Foods.

A pest known as an “apple worm” has caused problems for this year’s organic apple crop. Every year in late July, a local farming crew starts to pick the organic apples David Azevedo grows on ...