Q: We want to plant a few fruit trees in our back yard. The man at the nursery told us that all their trees were “low chill” trees. Now, I’m wondering just what he meant by that. A: You were talking ...

Merced College is celebrating a major step as students planted more than 1,000 almond trees across 10 acres of land.

As Central Valley almond production increased by more than 350,000 acres over the last quarter century, many growers previously unfamiliar with the crop planted orchards, some of them even new to tree ...