Flanagan and several state commissioners visited Pine Tree Apple Orchard, an orchard in White Bear Lake that’s part of the ...

Minnesota’s unseasonably warm and dry September put ... Bill Jacobson, production manager at Pine Tree Apple Orchard in White Bear Lake, said apple and pumpkin harvests at the orchard look good ...

Following a family trip to Sweden, to visit his wife Karen’s family who has had the same piece of farmland for nearly 900 ...

As fall draws to a close, so does the apple harvesting ... the University of Minnesota, their busiest time of the year. But for orchards, apple season never really ends. In spring, orchard workers ...

Delving into old county fair records, nursery sales ledgers, newspaper clippings and tips from people and scouring hills, ...

At Ferguson's Minnesota Harvest in Jordan, there are around 400,000 apple trees. The Ferguson family ... planted that way throughout the 300-acre orchard and farm. "That's actually how it's ...

Lowell and Phyllis Schaper have pruned and trimmed their business plan like they have their thousands of apple trees in ... commutes to Minnesota on weekends to work on the orchard.

In 2012, Jerry Lageson flipped the switch and transformed an oak tree into a landmark for thousands of passersby. Along Interstate 35 south of Faribault, Minn., Lageson annually adorns this tree ...

Four weeks ago, 25 people were hurt on a field trip to an apple orchard in the town of Lafayette. Gabe Mier was one of them — being flown to the hospital. "Not knowing the extent of his injuries ...

I know it’s best to plant fruit trees first. Which fruit trees fare best in this region? I would love apple, peach, plum, cherry and elderberry trees. Do you have any suggestions?

Orchards of today ‒ filled with short, trellised trees harvested by people on self-driving platforms or sometimes even robots ‒ sound like the stuff of science fiction. But apple fundamentals ...