If you’ve ever wanted to make your own fruit spreads, this apricot butter recipe is the perfect place to start. Home food preservers love this method because it uses fresh apricots and simple steps, ...

The USDA is purchasing up to $30 million in fresh fruit from American farmers to support food banks and nutrition programs ...

Don't blink! If you do, you might miss summer's most ephemeral pleasure, fresh apricots, harvested in their own true time. Apricots ripened about 10 days earlier than normal this year, but that ...

Once, we made ice cream in the summer because the season demanded it. The grass was high, cows were in milk and orchards heaved with fruit. Today, we buy ice cream from stores because it’s cold and we ...

The producer of premium, year-round Jumbo Blueberries (formerly Agrovision) and snack cups will use its new injection of capital towards meeting demand for its packaged fresh fruit snacks, says Steve ...

Apricots may be small, but they're big on both flavor and nutrition. These yellow-orange fruits are rich in vitamins and minerals, with a flavor ranging from sweet to sweet-tart, depending on the ...

Dried apricots are readily available year-round, easily tossed into cereal, muffin batter and trail mix, and offer a convenient concentrated dose of sweetness and nutrition. However, dried apricots ...