Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of southern Kazakhstan. Anna Yu/Alamy The foothills of Kazakhstan’s Tian Shan mountains are something of a genetic wonderland. This vast ...

These Central Asian trees could help shape the future of apples in the United States. They will soon be uprooted.

This week, we're revisiting two essays originally produced in 2014 and 2015. The Robert Frost poem, Unharvested, is read by Sean Hurley. October brings crisp air and crisp apples. An October tradition ...

Apples are from Central Asia. But that doesn’t guarantee they will survive there forever. Climate change and human activity are threatening the wild apple with “local and regional extinction” in its ...

There are two times of the year that I notice the wild apple trees on the edge of my woods. Carrie Deegan is Community Engagement & Volunteers Director for the Society for the Protection of New ...

PORTSMOUTH — Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Forest Society Education Center at Creek Farm. Releasing and pruning wild apple trees can keep them healthy and result in greater fruit production ...