Strawberry-picking robots have been called upon to tackle a labour crisis in the industry. The artificial allies could ...

Every apple picked at the orchard is an apple that doesn’t need to be shipped across the country or handled by dozens of ...

Elona Severs uses the Crackerberry Bag, a berry-picking container she and her husband created for picking and foraging. The container can attach to the waist, allowing for two-handed picking.

The business owner says that the berry pickers’ incomes will not decrease despite a shorter picking season than last year. Akseli Nevalainen, owner of the Lieksa-based business Polproduct Nordics Oy, ...

Buying a little over a kilo of fresh mangosteens in the United States can cost nearly $80. Farmers are cutting down other ...

The harvest season for apples and pears is in full swing - and it's not just in private gardens that people are picking.

The combination of measuring subtle aspects of food plus using AI to judge what they mean is an impressive simulation of how ...

"The Berry Pickers," Amanda Peters' 2023 debut novel, is a dual first-person narrative that begins in 1962 with the disappearance of Ruthie, the 4-year-old child of an indigenous Mi'kmaq family.

Illinois and the surrounding states are full of family-owned, often multigenerational orchards where urbanites can live out ...

Apple Annie's is an apple picking destination in Willcox, AZ, near the Chiricahua Mountains. The you-pick farm has been a ...

In May 2024, Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate ruled that the Kentucky Department of Corrections had failed to meet ...