Among the picturesque rolling green hills of the Huon Valley in Tasmania’s south is a fifth generation family business ...
It was introduced to Canada over a century ago from Europe along with its winter and summer hosts, apple, and plantain. In organic orchards it has proven to be especially problematic. In the future it ...
“People come from quite a ways,” says Joe. “There aren’t really any other organic orchards in the metro Milwaukee-Chicago ...
In addition, summer diseases such as bitter rot, black rot, powdery mildew, sooty mould and fly speck are fungal diseases poorly controlled in organic orchards. Conventional and IPM growers apply 8 to ...