Frens Orchards

A guide to the apples at your local orchard

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Know Your Apple [Infographic]

There are many varieties of apples grown in many different places. Here's a quick guide on which apple is good for baking, cooking, and just plain eating.

Orchard Owners Reveal the Genius Apple Picking Tips You Need for Fall

How To Prune Your Fruit Trees

A simple way to prune your fruit trees during the winter.

Tips for selecting a cultivar for home pecan orchards

Pecan trees are commonly found in both urban and rural dwellings within Georgia.

Grazing in orchards, vineyards mutually beneficial

In silvopasture, which contains multiple trees, the livestock spread out more. This avoids detrimental impact to a single tree and area.

Specialty Equipment: Orchards & Vineyards

As farmers convert massive amounts of acreage to orchards and vineyards, abandoning annual crops like tomatoes and rice, farming equipment is changing as well.

How trellises are transforming Washington’s apple orchards

UNION GAP, Yakima County — This irrigated slope used to be covered in big, stout apple trees with leafy canopies that could support a heavy crop of Golden Delicious apples.

When the Mallow’s Flaming

There are lessons that we just need to learn from experience because it is there that the lesson really sticks. I remember the times I get injured the most. Usually these come after a warning lik…

Learn how to can and freeze peaches during workshop at Terhune Orchards

Terhune Orchards has baskets overflowing with just-picked peaches ready for guests to take home to create peach recipes. Pam’s Canning & Freezing Class will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 13 at the orchard, Cold Soil Road, Princeton. In order to maintain social distancing for this in-person demonstration, space will be limited so pre-purchase $10 […]

Why Are Almond Growers Uprooting Their Orchards?

The double whammy of drought and water regulations has led some farmers to sacrifice thirsty crops—with visually striking consequences.

Farm Fact: Fruits and Veggies

Our friends at the Alachua County Farm Bureau have the breakdown in this week’s farm fact.

How A Banned Chemical Helped Clean Up Washington’s Orchards

DDT was banned in 1972 because of its harm to human health and the environment. DDT can take more than 15 years to break down in the environment, meaning it leaves a toxic trace for many years. But when it replaced lead arsenate in the late 1940s, “DDT was the savior.”

Tips to curb aflatoxin in pistachio orchards

Applying AF 36 at the right time, and with optimal soil moisture conditions, will increase effectiveness.

How P.E.I. orchards are using an apple wall to boost production

Two P.E.I. orchards are experimenting with a new way of growing apples that growers expect will double their production.

Dry Springs and Dead Orchards

Barren fields in Morocco reveal risks of severe depletion in North Africa.