Usually reaching ripeness in late April, dewberry vines first announce themselves with white blossoms in mid-February. Credit: Ron Bechtol Growing up in the Pacific Northwest offered me a bonanza of ...

I grew up with muscadine grapes. I liked them as a kid and still enjoy them today. In my opinion, they are a southern late summer and fall treat. Not everyone shares in my fondness for this native ...

Grapevines in the teaching vineyard at the UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. (Karen Block/UC Davis) Plant experts at UC Davis have defined the genetic basis of sex ...

At our place along the Manitowoc River, my grandfather planted wild grapes and other plants for the birds. Later, I remember him complaining that the grapes were taking over the lilacs and cedar trees ...

Almonds, apricots, cherries, figs, grapes, kiwi, olives, peaches, pistachios, plums, pomegranates, walnuts: The repository’s list adds up to 253 taxa and so much mouth-watering diversity that a ...

In 1981, Adam Tolmach planted a five-acre vineyard on land he had inherited from his grandfather in the wine-growing region of Ventura County, California, a few miles east of Santa Barbara. As an ...

People interbred domesticated vines with wild fruit. This is an Inside Science story. Many of the varieties of grapes used in today's wines are hundreds of years old. Genetic analysis shows that ...