With labor shortages leaving a wealth of fruit to rot on trees, farmers around the globe are seeing a glimmer of hope on the horizon as AI-driven robots fly to their rescue. These tech marvels are ...

This story is a component of the feature “Seasons of Preserves: Stone Fruit,” which is part of a four-part series on preserving fruit at home called “L.A. in a Jar.” When it comes to picking fruit for ...

It’s a banner fruit year on the farm. The sour cherry is full of small red globes, the black raspberry bushes are bursting with berries and clusters of grapes hang heavy on the arbor. In the early ...

You know you've been tempted. You see a ripe piece of fruit overhanging from a tree on someone else's property, you long to pluck it from the plant and sample the goods. But behind the allure of that ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Surrounded in an orchard of apricots, Fresno resident Tom Nast is having a blast picking his own apricots. "It just is. You get in the country and markets are mundane," ...