There is something especially gratifying about having your own fruit trees. Harvesting fresh fruit from your very own orchard and turning it into sweet delicacies is not only cost-effective but also ...

WASHINGTON — As an artist, Sam Van Aken tends to work with some unusual media. While others are content to follow their vision using pencils, brushes and a canvas, he’s using weather balloons, planes ...

Tree 75 is a nice-looking fruit tree. But in spring, it becomes a thing of wonder when it blooms pink, crimson and white. And at harvest time, the tree grows more than 40 varieties of stone fruit, ...

Beside a blue fence in the back of the East Fourth Street Community Garden in Kensington, a skinny, leafless little tree pokes optimistically up from the Brooklyn soil. At this point, the sapling ...