The gripper then turns the fruit by 90 degrees to snap it off its stalk, mimicking the technique a human picker would use. The prototype is picking one strawberry every four seconds, says Mr Coen ...

Upon a stalk stands a living brute, / a rooted plant yields a quadruped fruit (…) / It’s an animal that sleeps by day / and ...

Last summer we wrote about some of the benefits of planting fruit trees for whitetail deer. This week we’ll look at some ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis ...

Many people are under the impression that parts of produce we typically discard, like stalks, leafy tops, tough skins of various fruits and vegetables, are inedible, she says. As it happens, they aren ...

Pumpkins make beautiful seasonal decor, and there is no shortage of delicious pumpkin recipes to enjoy. From pumpkin desserts ...

Rhubarb sits in the twilight zone of the culinary world — a vegetable moonlighting as a fruit, most commonly found in jams and pies, its brightly colored astringent stalks offset by the sugar in those ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit crops. Seedless grapes of Thompson (green ... grow like weeds and will gladly ...

After you've selected the freshest bundle of fennel and brought it home, you're probably wondering how to store it and keep ...

19.1 x 33.7 cm. (7.5 x 13.3 in.) ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit crops. Seedless grapes of Thompson ... will gladly self-sow after they bolt (send up flower stalks) and go to seed. The seeds are also spicy in ...

Usually, fruits and vegetables have been named according ... If you let it go even longer, it will eventually make a flower stalk and make seeds for next year’s crop.” A pumpkin starts the ...