Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might love peach pie and cherry cobbler, but do you really know what stone fruit is? We thought we did, until we talked to the ...

Summertime means the re-emergence of plenty of fun things: trips to the beach or pool, outdoor brunches and cookouts with family and friends. It also brings us new in-season fruit to enjoy during ...

A guide to when and how to prune fan-trained fruit trees for healthy trees and bumper crops, including tips for training trees and pruning established trees.

Among the wide variety of fresh fruit available throughout the summer months, many of the most popular choices belong to the stone fruit family. Stone fruits, or drupes, are categorized as fruits with ...

Don’t bite your thumb at a plum. Plums, long lauded for their laxative properties, often play second fiddle to sexier summer fruits like cherries, berries, and peaches — but dieticians say you shouldn ...

The produce industry, in collaboration with creative growers, has sparked a major hybridizing frenzy, increasing the diversity of the stone fruit family by leaps and bounds with striking colors and ...

While shorter supplies of cherries, peaches, nectarines and plums have led to flat or declining sales of stone fruits in recent years, these quintessential summertime favorites are poised for a ...

Young, green apricots or peaches develop small, crusty spots that persist as the fruits mature. Fruits on the same tree may have only a few spots or they may be covered more densely. The fruit stage ...

Georgia might be known as the Peach State, but California is the largest producer of peaches (and nectarines) in the U.S. And the remarkable number of varieties that shows up to L.A.’s weekly farmers ...

I am a glutton when it comes to summer stone fruit. There is a window of time when nectarines, peaches, apricots and plums run rampant at the market. Mottled in vibrant swaths of purple, crimson and ...