The nonprofit Heritage Apple Corps has created an online registry documenting century-old apple trees like Northern Spy and ...

Growing up in Swain County, North Carolina, Nathan Dee Greene ate a lot of apples. The family had several trees of their own, but every fall, they bought bushels from the nearby orchard on Laurel ...

Katharine Suding’s children arrived home one day in 2017 with a small bag of apples from an unkempt old apple tree that sat in the middle of a field near her home in Louisville. Suding, an ecology ...

Editor’s note: Part of this story was updated to reflect that a tree in the county that dated back to 1554 was sampled about a decade ago. It was not clear from the reporting whether the tree is still ...

It’s no secret that trees make our lives better and healthier. Trees help clean the air, filter the water, and provide shade. In fact, studies have also shown that being among trees — whether that ...