The very first fruit (called your “native fruit”) that you start with on your island is random. Every day, your fruit trees will spawn three of your native fruits, and you can plant them to grow more ...

Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, managed to graft different stone fruit plants such as peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries together to create a single tree ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Mechanical harvesting of fruit trees represents a transformative approach to modern orchard management. By applying controlled vibrational excitations, these systems selectively detach ripe fruit ...

Others are entirely different fruit trees that are better suited to indoor conditions. Note: Even these more suitable types probably won't thrive without close attention, and, unless you have a large ...

The only other real way to get non-native fruit is to trade with other players. Either enlist a friend and use the Airport to ...

Late winter is an ideal time for pruning many trees, and fruit trees are no exception. Regularly trimming away damaged and unsightly branches is key to maintaining a healthy tree with an aesthetically ...

Q: I have both a Washington navel orange and Flordaprince peach tree planted this spring that a local nursery claimed was 8 to 10 years old. The peach tree produced lots of small fruit, but the orange ...