Avocados may be the king of fruit, but picking one that's perfectly ripe (not over, not under) is often a challenging feat.

After dominating the U.S. for decades, California avocado farmers have been lapped by Mexican growers offering cheaper fruit.

On a hillside northwest of Los Angeles, Andreas Tompros is replanting hundreds of avocado trees. Consumption of avocados has ...

Gragg, a lifelong avocado enthusiast, has spent the last 35 years growing dozens of trees at his nursery and trying to convince others to do the same. "It's like growing dollar bills on a tree ...

This video shows how to successfully plant avocado trees in areas containing clay soil. Root rot disease and poor soil drainage is the number 1 reason why avocados fail and die but this method helps ...

The book broadly centers on two “mother trees” while saluting “the people who nurtured them, for money and love.” In 1911 Carl Schmidt, an American investigator scouting for avocado ...

Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawings to the Brainerd Dispatch, 506 James St., Brainerd, MN 56401 Weather drawing by Novalee Addison from Mrs. Martin's first ...

The application of potassium phosphite, combined or not with dolomitic lime or gypsum enables the partial recovery ‘Hass’ avocado plants affected by the disease. Tree health condition was assessed ...

In the cashew tree cultivation, the disease is widely disseminated in ... gloeosporioides isolates from avocado and mango according to host and geographic origin.

Several years ago, when I started looking at how to use the parts of foods we often throw away, one of the first totally out-of-the-ordinary recipes I made was radish top soup. I loved the peppery ...