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Tucson fruit trees trace roots back to Jesuits (KTAR 92.3 Phoenix)
Behind the Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont house nestled between the Tucson Convention Center and Music Hall, there's a large fig tree in the backyard of one of Tucson's oldest homes. Jesus Garcia has tasted its fruit and attests to its sweet flavor.
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A Tucson avocado tree beats the odds (KVOA Tucson)
Having the right climate is key when it comes to growing and harvesting fruits and vegetables. That's why produce comes from different regions. One Tucson Tree is making it work.
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Last year for Christmas tree farm (The Daily Ardmoreite)
It’s the end of an era. Sandy Hills Christmas Tree Farm will shut the gates to the 15-acre establishment at the end of the day on Dec. 20 after 21 consecutive years in business.
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Fuchsia Dunlop: In a toxic era, a Hangzhou restaurant pursues purity. (The New Yorker)
One day in September, I joined the Chinese restaurateur Dai Jianjun for a foraging expedition on a remote mountainside in Zhejiang Province. Ahead of us, our guide, Bao Laichun, cleared a path, hacking at branches with a bamboo-handled machete. The hawthorn trees around us were heavy with fruit, and . . .
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Urban farmers ask: Where are my avocados? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Q:I have a tree that I planted from an avocado seed. The tree is approximately 4 years old and 10 feet tall. Please tell me when it will start bearing fruit. A: Because your tree grew from seed, it may take as many as 12 years to begin to bear. And, of the...
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Museums showcase fancy Christmas trees (Macon Telegraph)
Macon may have found a worthy counterpart to its beloved Yoshino cherry tree.
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Bayou Boeuf satsuma tree yields giant fruit this year (The Houma Courier)
BAYOU BOEUF - The tree was planted in 1992 or thereabouts, when Derek Usea was about 17 years old.Now Derek has reached the age of 33, and for all those years he has taken care of the satsuma tree with his dad, Robert Usea Sr., and each year has seen a return in nicely shaped and sized fruit.But this year was something different.
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The State: Lab supplies 60-foot fir as Capitol Christmas tree (The Monterey County Herald)
SACRAMENTO Lab supplies 60-foot fir as holiday tree AU.S. Forest Service genetics lab in Placerville will provide the state Capitol with its Christmas tree for the 10th straight year.
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Students at pair of schools to taste fruits of their labor (The Record)
TEANECK — Students at Lowell and Whittier elementary schools may have a new snack soon: homegrown pears, peaches and apples. The schools are participating in a national program called Fruit Tree 101, run by the non-profit Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and sponsored by the company FruitaBü.
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Carnegie Mellon developing automated systems to enable precision farming of apples, oranges (EurekAlert!)
( Carnegie Mellon University ) Two groups of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have received a total of $10 million in grants from the US Department of Agriculture to build automated farming systems. One is for apple growers and one is for orange growers, but both are designed to improve fruit quality and lower production costs.
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