Local apple orchards are preparing for the upcoming apple picking season.
Apple Picking Season Nearly Here
Late spring frosts wiped out much of the state's apple crop, with Michigan orchards expecting to harvest 500 million fewer pounds this year. But the dry, hot summer ripened a variety of apples earlier than usual, helping produce a sweeter blend of cider.
Cider mills enjoy sweeter apples, but the crop is smaller
The new owners of more than 600 acres, including Woodmont Orchards, envision a $1 billion investment over 20 years that will transform Londonderry with a new town center and a traditional community feel. Read all about it in tomorrow's New Hampshire Sunday News.
Coming Sunday: Billion dollar development will transform Londonderry
LIKE the high-tech companies that give this lush region its name, Silicon Valley thrives on reinvention. Situated just south of San Francisco Bay, the valley was once an agricultural cradle, home to orchards and vineyards. These days, of course, it bears fruit of a different sort, as the home of tech giants like Apple, Google and Intel. Buoyed by the resilience of tech companies, the valley's ...
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Orchards Children's Services officials were nearing the end of a brief ceremony thanking Rodney Stuckey for his efforts to help the Southfield-based foster-care agency, when he asked for the woman he calls his stepmother to come forth.
Pistons' Rodney Stuckey shows selflessness with children
Warwick - A story in last week’s Warwick Advertiser about where people could pick their own apples in the area inadvertently omitted the Apple Ridge Orchards, located 101 Jessup Road in Warwick.
Correction
The harvest is coming and the season's first pecks of apples are ripe for picking.
Ripe for picking: Metro-east orchards prepare harvests as summer winds down
PETALUMA, Calif. — This Sonoma County town has done a lot right. In its heyday, it was known for its grain mills, dairies, racehorse stables, potato farms, and fruit orchards. That commercial activity and the population both waned in the late 1800s. Then the residents decided to raise chickens. Chicken - California - Sonoma County California - United States - Population
Where the chicken and the egg came first
Talk about taking advantage of a good break. After his tee shot on No. 15 at The Orchards took a fortunate bounce to avoid going into the woods, Stockbridge Golf Club member Jim Finnerty holed out a 6-iron from 180 yards for an eagle-2.
Stockbridge's Finnerty wins four-ball title
As fishermen tied up their boats and farmers fretted over their orchards, forecasters tracking the movement of Hurricane Earl say it’s looking more likely that the swirling storm will touch down in western Nova Scotia on Saturday.
Earl expected to reach Nova Scotia as Category 1
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