Campbell Orchards

A guide to the apples at your local orchard

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Know Your Apple [Infographic]

There are many varieties of apples grown in many different places. Here's a quick guide on which apple is good for baking, cooking, and just plain eating.

How To Prune Your Fruit Trees

A simple way to prune your fruit trees during the winter.

Learn how to can and freeze peaches during workshop at Terhune Orchards

Terhune Orchards has baskets overflowing with just-picked peaches ready for guests to take home to create peach recipes. Pam’s Canning & Freezing Class will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 13 at the orchard, Cold Soil Road, Princeton. In order to maintain social distancing for this in-person demonstration, space will be limited so pre-purchase $10 […]

Specialty Equipment: Orchards & Vineyards

As farmers convert massive amounts of acreage to orchards and vineyards, abandoning annual crops like tomatoes and rice, farming equipment is changing as well.

A robot that picks apples? Replacing humans worries union

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States.That system eventually could change dramatically as at least two companies are rushing to get robotic fruit-picking

The Many Benefits of Cooling your Apple Crop Webinar

Brad Holliday is a Territory Sales Manager at Jain Irrigation with Almost 30 years of agronomic experience. He holds a Crop Consultants License for the Oregon Department of Agriculture and most of his career has been in production agriculture with an emphasis in seed crops such as onions and garlic. Brad has been part of the Jain Team for over 5 years and has spent a lot of time working with apple growers to help determine ‘best-practices’ to cool their apple crop.

Our Picks for Apple Orchards

Apple-picking season is in full swing! There's an added pleasure to biting into the crisp and juicy apples of fall when you know that you'v...

Almond orchards are pretty but don’t walk on private property for a selfie

Sometimes, beauty should be admired from afar. In the case of Solano’s blooming almond orchards, make that very far. As with last year’s sunflower selfie debacle, almond orchard selfies…

Getting neglected pecan orchards back into production

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- One common question I have received over the years is, “I have these pecan trees and I want to get them back...

How trellises are transforming Washington’s apple orchards

UNION GAP, Yakima County — This irrigated slope used to be covered in big, stout apple trees with leafy canopies that could support a heavy crop of Golden Delicious apples.

Recycling old almond orchards could increase productivity, trial shows

Recycling old almond trees back into the ground could reduce growers' carbon footprint, a US trial shows.

As avocado crops face serious threat, team of scientists trying to save orchards

A team of scientists from around the world are trying save avocado orchards and the industries that rely on them.

Grazing in orchards, vineyards mutually beneficial

In silvopasture, which contains multiple trees, the livestock spread out more. This avoids detrimental impact to a single tree and area.

Fruiting Plants for Homeowners with Small Yards

Managing and enjoying small fruits and trees in your landscape

“When Orchards Burn Their Lamps of Fiery Gold”

Emma Lazarus’s 1882 poem for Rosh Hashanah responded to the crises of her day, foreshadowed “The New Colossus,” and resonates today.