The process can be complex, but the results are incredibly satisfying—and delicious.

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question is how to propagate an apple tree from ...

Learn how to grow antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 34th Antique Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 13. For $35, participants make three grafts of heirloom varieties to ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question we receive is how to propagate an apple ...

Fruit trees have become very expensive to buy. Most are well north of $20 each. Some are $25 or more, but you can build your own for about $5 each. Building your own fruit trees is easy. Scion wood, ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

Last year at this time, I wrote about the tasks of spring, which include getting outside and pruning fruit trees at the family farm. I reported then that we had one peach tree, two grape arbors, two ...

in a hands-on demonstration by Joe Sabol, other members the California Rare Fruit Growers Society and Cal Poly students. The grafted trees will be cared for in the school greenhouse, which was built ...

Learn how to grow antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 35th Antique Apple Tree Grafting seminar on Sunday, March 5. It will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the museum, off Garfield Road in Campton ...

Dave Christic, a volunteer from the California Rare Fruit Growers, helps seniors Michael Ward, left, and Emilie McDonald with their apple tree grafting. Photo by Joe Johnston 02-25-10 Tribune Students ...