For the past seven years, University of California Cooperative Extension vegetable farm adviser Zheng Wang has studied ...

Food security has long been a concern in Hawaii, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought this issue into even sharper focus. It continues to plague many families today. There’s no easy solution, but growing ...

Avocado trees are a popular fruit tree grown here in Brevard County. There are many cultivars available that vary in hardiness, ripening months, and fruit size. If you are growing avocados now, or you ...

The avocado seed took time to grow, with the first sprout dying at day 71 just as it was about to emerge. This video documents its growth journey, with a follow-up video planned in about a year to ...

Some of the most successful avocado growers are not traditional agriculturists but professionals, who left careers in engineering, corporate management, academia, and technology to pursue farming ...

BONSALL, Calif. — In the hills of Bonsall, a program by the non-profit organization Heal the Earth is offering something unusual: the chance to adopt your very own avocado tree and receive its fruit ...

A new pilot program allows people to adopt individual avocado trees from local farms and share in their harvests, all while helping struggling avocado farmers, according to its founder. The "Adopt an ...

This month, I took on something I’ve only done once before — fruit tree grafting for Extension food access projects across the tri-county area. Last spring, I grafted 24 apple scions onto 24 ...

Most people don’t expect to wait two decades for a result—especially not from something as simple as an avocado seed. But that’s exactly what happened to me. What started as a casual decision to save ...