It was a routine day in the laboratory belonging to Cameron Peace on the campus of Washington State University, Pullman, in the high, dry hills close to the Idaho border. Peace is a tree-fruit ...

The original apple trees are thought to have grown in Kazakhstan, which at the time would have been known as the mountainous Tien Shan region of Central Asia. An ancestral variety of wild apple still ...

A century-old, endangered Walbridge apple tree dwarfs Allison Robenstein, left, volunteer coordinator, and Hunter Hall, the marketing and events coordinator, as they walk through the apple orchard at ...

Peter LoVerso lives in a part of central Oregon where he can ride his bike on public land and pick a heritage apple to eat on his journey. LoVerso, who lives near Bend, is also part of a corps of ...