An artist's rendering of the "Tree of 40 Fruit," grafted together by Sam Van Aken to bear 40 different kinds of fruit. Sam Van Aken Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University ...

Novices should first try grafting apple trees, which are relatively easy, said Jack Kay, 52, a master gardener and longtime grafter in Santa Clara.

People have been grafting apple trees for thousands of years, ever since the fruit was domesticated. “It’s an ancient technique,” says Julie Sawtelle, who will be co-teaching a free workshop ...

The time for grafting apple trees is just before the buds pop open in late winter or in early spring … and here’s how. Cleft Grafting Procedure Step One ...

About 1 in every 80,000 apple trees grown from seed are of the same quality as their parent tree. Apple trees grown from seed typically have smaller, inferior fruit.

If grafting is something you’d like to learn more about or you just want to get some uncommon fruit tree varieties, mark your calendar for Thursday, March 21.

A workshop on bench grafting apple trees is set for 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 28, at the Franklin County Extension Office, 138 Pleasant St., Suite 1, in Farmington. Edwin Remsberg photo ...

Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, managed to graft different stone fruit plants such as peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries together to create a single ...

Novices should first try grafting apple trees, which are relatively easy, said Jack Kay, 52, a master gardener and longtime grafter in Santa Clara.