China has added three new sites to the United Nations' list of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, bringing the country's total to 25 — more than any nation in the world, the Ministry of ...

Three new sites in China were officially recognized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as Globally ...

Tetsuya Hashimoto’s pear orchard, Hashimoto Nashien, has grown the Niitaka variety for decades. Popular as gifts because of their sweetness and large size, Niitaka pears are picked in September ...

In a quiet Dutch orchard, rows of pear trees grow beneath solar panels — and beneath those panels, the future of farming is quietly taking shape. As ...

The oldest recorded burial in the Pear Orchard Cemetery dates to 1956, but the cemetery was likely in use as far back as the 1870s. The cemetery contains 470 surviving headstones, but records show ...

Late last month, over 100 people gathered in the Pear Orchard neighborhood to witness the dedication of the Pear Orchard Cemetery as a Historic Texas Cemetery. The recognition has been bestowed by ...

Phil Kester talks about Perry and his community orchard.

Also, its flesh was supposed to be greenish white, “but June’s pear doesn’t have that,” Cormier said. Two years ago, Cormier, by then an orchard assistant at the Maine Organic Farmers and ...