orchard

In California’s Sacramento Valley, a grower was cited for multiple pesticide safety violations in a stone fruit orchard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The orchard is 25 years old, and this is by far the driest year they have had.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

"We would normally harvest 20-30 tonnes of apples here," he tells me, walking through one orchard.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The 75-year-old farmer's eyes filled with tears as he walked through his orchard in the village of Vosketap, where a breeze from snowcapped Mount Ararat, across the border in Turkey, dispelled the summer heat.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

We started walking again, Rufus leading, back through the orchard toward the house.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

I spent the summer watching farmers install showers for cows, watch their cauliflowers burn to a crisp in the heat, and search for apples in cider orchards reduced to a tenth of their normal crop.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Neil MacDonald, who manages more than 1,000 acres of Somerset orchards, says he has watched half his apples fall before they have ripened, because the trees are stressed by the drought.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

On its 53-mile path to the Pacific Ocean, water ripped through orchards, uprooted orange groves and flipped cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

She said it’s unfair that her family is charged the same pumping fees as the owners of giant almond and pistachio orchards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Those nonbitter almond seeds are the only ones that ancient farmers would have planted, at first unintentionally in their garbage heaps and later intentionally in their orchards.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond