Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Hannah Westly bit into the plump reddish-yellow Rainier cherry she’d just picked. “Mmm … delicious. I think this tree is ready … “ Beside her, Annie Chozinski bit into another cherry ...

As the calendar turns to spring with its lengthening days of warm sunshine, flowers begin to appear on fruit trees across Yakima Valley orchards. Early apricot blossoms are emerging in the Lower ...

Saturday's harvest total: 813 pounds of fruit. Even so, it hardly looks like the two dozen volunteers in matching red T-shirts made that much progress harvesting the 50-tree orchard. Many branches are ...

Fresh cherry season is fleeting -- typically late-May through July, early August if we're lucky. And enjoying the sweet little fruits is laborsome, but for cherry lovers, the hard work of stemming and ...

As you stroll the aisles of your local nursery this time of year, you might find yourself getting hungry as you pass a portable orchard of apple, pear, plum, cherry and fig trees. As winter morphs ...

Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...