I have never experienced discontentment in winter. I keep myself active in my little urban orchard by choosing fruiting trees ...

The event had a practical purpose as well as a symbolic one, as once the wassail had finished, most of the attendees remained at the orchard in order to carry out some much-needed pruning.

Join University of Illinois Extension Local Foods and Small Farms Educator Grant McCarty for a program on “Introduction to Fruit Tree Pruning ... While not hands-on at an orchard, this course does ...