Small backyards aren't exempt from the luxury of fresh-plucked apples. You simply need to choose varieties that thrive in containers or tiny garden beds.

As you stroll the aisles of your local nursery this time of year, you might find yourself getting hungry as you pass a portable orchard of apple, pear, plum, cherry and fig trees. As winter morphs ...

It used to be that most every Iowa backyard had a big, spreading apple tree. It produced many bushels of apples that were lovingly turned into endless pies, crisps, canned applesauce and dried apples.

There’s nothing as sweet as enjoying a home-grown fruit harvest, but the wait time can be years for many trees to bear fruit. There are fast-growing fruit trees that can give yo ...