A workshop about thinning the Asian pear will be held at 9 a.m. May 4 at the University of Nevada Cooperative Extenion Master Gardener Orchard in North Las Vegas. The orchard will hold a workshop ...

Berry thinning is crucial for cultivating high-quality table grapes, traditionally carried out by skilled laborers who are becoming scarce due to an aging population. To address the labor-intensive ...

Coffee Pot participants were able to take part in a demonstration of rate shoot thinning at the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory in Portland. Dr. Terry Bates of the Lake Erie ...

When we say that someone is thin skinned, we usually mean that they are sensitive and do not handle adversity well. Pinot noir grapes are literally thin skinned and especially susceptible to frost, ...

As April showers add to the already full cup of needed moisture for the 2017 North Coast winegrape season, growers have been busy doing more work in the vineyard at a time of fewer workers available ...

Fall is in the air and the "crush" is already under way in the wine country. With all the excitement over the wine, verjus, a delicious byproduct of the wine-making process, often is overlooked.

Q: A few years ago, we lost most of our grapevines to grapeleaf skeletonizers. Is there some way to prevent this from happening again? I would prefer an organic solution, if possible. The western ...