When the annual Rare Fruit Tree Sale was held at the Manatee County Convention Center in Palmetto, a crowd of several hundred would line up well before the doors opened. There was always something of ...

Common Ground is proud to have Tierra Madre Farm, a small Santa Cruz family farm specializing in rare and old-timey fruit tree varieties. Rubinette Apple, Belle Lucrative Pear, Burgundy Asian ...

Now in its 32nd year, the Rare Fruit Tree Sale, an annual Manatee County event with a huge following, has a new location this year. Traditionally held indoors at the Bradenton Area Convention Center ...

Here’s a special rare fruit tree that tropical gardeners can grow in Costa Rica: jaboticaba, a native Brazilian tree with grape-like fruits. Known as mamón brasileño in Spanish, jaboticaba (Eugenia ...

Rare-fruit growers in Sonoma County hold a scion swap and offer demonstrations on how to graft many different fruits onto a single tree. Thousands of varieties of trees, vines and shrubs bear edible ...

Dr. Alois Falkenstein put decades of work into breeding and cultivating rare fruits in the Arizona desert, and created a community of like-minded gardeners. Over more than two decades, a small ...

Hybrid fruit trees are created by cross-pollinating two different types of fruit trees to produce a new variety that combines traits from each parent tree. This breeding process yields unique fruit ...

Fruit-tree cultivation in New York goes back further than any written records. When Giovanni da Verrazzano and Henry Hudson reached New York Harbor in 1524 and 1609, respectively, they observed ...