After admiring the orchards of flowering almond trees, visit one of California ... that enable local winemakers to grow a multitude of varieties of grapes. This makes Lodi very different from ...

Those 180 million trees store 30 million metric tons of carbon a year in the Golden State that some would prefer be known as ...

When Wolfgang was wolfing down food, he was known to dig into liver dumplings (one of dozens of types of dumplings ... and although he painted flowering descriptions of the table chatter and ...

Most people look at a flowering almond tree this time of year and see ... There are 30 different varieties of almonds grown in California. And we’re not talking honey roasted, smoked, spicy ...

Salvias can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs, or perennial, biennial, or annual flowering plants ... where you can wander among almond varieties that were planted in our valley before the 1900's. Take ...

A self-pollinating nonpareil could mean less need for bees and greater production for the most popular variety of nut.

Blue Diamond Growers, the world’s leading almond marketer and processor, today announced the creation of its latest innovation, The Nutty Cruiser™ set ...

Late winter can be a good time to force branches from spring-flowering trees and shrubs to bloom indoors. Once buds open, move the branches to a brighter room, out of direct sunlight. The arrival ...

A nationwide shortage of honeybees has coincided with a rise in beehive thefts as growers throughout the Central Valley prepare for almond bloom, a pivotal time for the health of the nut, which is one ...