But, indoors, you can grow an orange tree anywhere. You don't need a dedicated greenhouse in your home or even a sunroom. Any space that gets abundant light and can maintain a sufficient amount of ...

I find few things more cheering than a bowl of brightly colored citrus set atop my kitchen counter, especially as the grey days of winter set in. Visually, the fruits’ pleasing pastel and jewel-toned ...

In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges are stacked in pyramids. They appear identical and in their seeming perfection, unremarkable, a mundane fruit to slice into wedges and pack in a ...

When our Minnesota winter drags on, many of us could use a shot of sunshine made from zesty citrus. Fortunately, colder months are ideal for citrus fruits to ripen to their best flavor. That's why ...

If cattle ranching represents Florida’s working landscape, citrus represents Florida’s public image. Oranges are the state ...

Southern California is known for its incredible citrus – oranges, kumquats, lemons, all home-grown and distributed within the state. It’s common to see sidewalks in the San Fernando Valley littered ...

Q. When is citrus fruit ready to harvest? A. Florida uses five indexes to determine maturity of citrus, including soluble solids, juice content, acid level, soluble solids/acid ratio and skin color.

Oranges and grapefruits bring fresh, zesty bursts of flavor, fragrance and color when Wisconsin’s produce still lies dormant. What’s more, the beauty of citrus runs so much more than skin deep.

We all know citrus fruits are good for us, right? A glass of orange juice for breakfast, a lemon slice in your water – that’s about it, mostly for Vitamin C. But what if we told you these zesty little ...

A bleak outlook for Florida’s orange industry has citrus growers looking toward a future filled with new orange varieties. At The Orange Shop in Citra, a fresh fruit gift business, owner Peter Spyke ...

My favorite fruit this time of year is any of the different kinds of orange citrus: blood oranges, mandarins, clementines. But I tend to buy too many at the market. After making more jars of marmalade ...