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Farmers Hope New ‘Cosmic Crisp’ Will Be America’s Next Top Apple

Move over, Honeycrisp and Red Delicious: Farmers have a new apple they hope will be the next big fruit in the produce aisle, and it’s called the Cosmic Crisp. [More]

Picking Your Own Apples Can Take A Cider Press To Your Wallet

Picking Your Own Apples Can Take A Cider Press To Your Wallet

The fall harvest season is here. For some reason, that makes people want to pay large sums of money to go out and pick their own fruit. Delicious. Reader Jennifer wrote in to share her apple-picking experience this past weekend at two different orchards in the Midwest as a cautionary tale. Sometimes the businesses out to mislead you and rip you off aren’t monolithic global corporations. They’re a farm in the next town over. [More]