In ancient Greece, a hole was drilled in the trunks of almond trees into which plugs of pine tree wood were inserted.

Pruning almond trees is an essential practice for any home gardener looking to ensure healthy trees and maximize nut production. With the right techniques and timing, you can help your almond trees ...

Merced College is celebrating a major step as students planted more than 1,000 almond trees across 10 acres of land.

CHICO — It’s an early bloom boom this almond season. Almond trees are blooming this week in Chico, opening up their flowers slightly earlier than normal leaving buds vulnerable to cold temperatures.

OF WAYS. REPORTER: ON THIS TEST PLOT OF 20 ACRES IN SALIDA, THERE ARE MANY ALMOND TREES BEING GROWN AND STUDIED. >> PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY WOULD BE THE TWO INTUITIONS ON A GROWERS MIND. YOU WANT TO ...

Almond trees across Solano County and the rest of California are shedding their blossoms as the 2026 bloom winds down, but a stretch of February storms has left local growers watching the weather — ...

Stanislaus County’s finest floral display, the almond bloom, has brightened the winter landscape once again. The flowers last from mid-February to mid-March on about 210,000 acres of orchards. Each ...

Wind doesn't necessarily harm almond trees. Neither does rain. But put them together in the wrong sequence, and look out! Local growers were counting their blessings Monday after escaping the weekend ...

FIREBAUGH, Calif.-- As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California's agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a ...

When Jacob tried to induce the animals in his care to give birth to offspring that fit a certain look, Jacob placed tree branches that mimicked their appearance in his animals’ feeding trough. Among ...