The Columbian

Try This: BirdFest & Bluegrass, Old Apple Tree Festival, Art4Art fundraiser

The BirdFest & Bluegrass Festival is Saturday in Ridgefield. The festival’s 25th anniversary celebration is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Ridgefield Waterfront, 101 Mill St. Visitors should park at the Port ...
Oregonian

It’s time for winter maintenance on apple trees. Here’s what you need to know

CORVALLIS — From newly minted gardeners to avid urban farmers, everyone with a patch of land wants to grow an apple tree. Other fruits — pears, cherries, figs, plums — are desirable, too, but there’s ...
The Columbian

Try This: ‘The Old Apple Tree’ in song, Quilt Show, Couve Clover Run

Before dying in 2020, the Old Apple Tree oversaw the Hudson's Bay Company's exit to Canada, Americans gaining Fort Vancouver, the establishment of Washington as a territory and a state, soldiers ...
WBUR

Historians discover one of North America's oldest living apple trees in Maine

On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

On a Maine island, historians discover one of the oldest living apple trees in North America

On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...