You may think it's fine to pick fruit from a tree that isn't yours, but according to the Arizona law, it may not all be peachy. Here's what to do.

It's often referred to as the "Mother Tree." For more than 100 years this tropical tree, which is native to Central America and Mexico, has managed to survive in the Arizona desert by the grace of ...

The Friends planted 120 trees acquired from Kino Heritage Fruit Trees, cultivars that can be traced to those introduced in the late 17 th and early 18 th centuries by Jesuit missionaries such as ...

According to the website, the UA main campus has close to 8,000 trees. Of these 8,000, around 1,800 produce items that are edible, such as fruit, olives and nuts.

Tanisha Tucker Lohse, of the Tohono Oʼodham nation, picks a ripe saguaro cactus fruit during a harvest day in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Ariz., on Monday, June 23, 2025.

With trees grown in a fertilized lawn, rain can move the nitrogen in lawn fertilizer past the grass roots where the fruit tree takes it up. Do not apply fertilizer to lawn grass within five feet ...

Beyond the inconsistent yield, a heavy On-Year can actually damage the tree, breaking limbs from the weight of the fruit itself, and often results in smaller, lower-quality fruit.

Orcharding requires effort, but the resulting yields of fresh fruit make it all worthwhile. One of the most important aspects of growing fruit trees is pruning. This applies to large commercial and ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.