The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation established “Fruit Tree 101” in 2007 in order to address important issues like sustainability, caring for the environment and proper nutrition. The program donates ...

If you have any interest in growing your own fruit, it’s prime time to pick up apples, plums, cherries and pears. Growing fruit trees in our own back yards can be lots of fun and nutritionally ...

YONKERS — Stew Leonard Jr. is a fir man. Surrounded by thousands of fragrant balsams and Fraser firs — the only two types Stew Leonard's sells — he's readying for the biggest weekend of the year for ...

This year, welcome Santa Claus without flames in the fireplace — or engulfing your tree. As families across the country bring trees into their homes for Christmas and trim them with lights and ...

Fraser firs grow almost exclusively at elevations above 3000 feet. Photo by Darrell Black Friday is the kick-off day not only a key day for Christmas shopping but also for Christmas trees sales.

It's hard to believe that Christmas is right around the corner. Thanksgiving falls late this year, so there's a shorter window in which to buy Christmas trees. Many cut tree markets actually started ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Arbor Day was created in Nebraska in 1872 to encourage people to plant trees. On the first Arbor Day, it is estimated that one million trees were planted. Trees increase our ...

Almost every tree needs to be pruned at some point in its life. Sometimes a tree may need to be trimmed to help it, such as dealing with storm damage, reducing limb weight, removing dead limbs and ...