The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reported on Monday that the outlook for the 2010 apple crop is very good. The department has been in contact with growers representing the ...

How do you like them apples? If the answer is "local," then you're probably munching on a Golden Delicious. Why it matters: Golden Delicious is the most produced apple in Virginia, which is one of the ...

Guadalupe Zarate harvests trees for Kitchen's Orchard in Hedgesville, West Virginia. He can pick a bushel, more than forty apples, per minute. (Alan Jinich) It's getting late in the harvest season in ...

Fall is ripe for apple picking, and this year’s crop is looking promising. “We are just getting started with our fall varieties but so far, so good,” said Cynthia Chiles, who helps operate her ...

No fruit helped build America more than the apple. Recently, there’s been a movement to return to some of the original varieties that apple connoisseurs say taste better than what is typically found ...

(WDBJ) - Saunders Brothers knows all about apples. The Nelson County nursery shows how apples are grown and harvested in a video on Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom’s YouTube channel. In the ...

CANA, Va. (WGHP) — Just outside of Cana, Virginia, people flock to orchard country this time of year for the fall color and fresh apples. “We just love coming to the mountains to get apples,” said one ...

SPERRYVILLE, Va. (7News) — Reporter's Notebook: The western edge of Northern Virginia is prime apple-picking country. One orchard is facing a unique problem. They have too many apples. So, they're ...