The apricot is one of the “oldest” crops in California, according to the Apricot Producers of California. “The history of the California apricot started 4,000 years ago when it was discovered on the ...

“Somewhere between a peach and a prayer.” That’s how the poet Diane Ackerman describes eating an apricot. And that’s just for starters; she goes on to compare the taste of apricots to cool, fresh well ...

I spent the weekend engrossed in Robin Chapman’s well-researched, amazing ode to the Santa Clara Valley’s agricultural heritage, “California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley.” Chapman, ...

2001-05-05 04:00:00 PDT Patterson, Stanislaus County-- These are edgy times here in "the apricot capital of the world." Growers are saying that thousands of tons of fruit will rot, unharvested, unless ...

My grandparents have lived in their house in the Los Altos Highlands neighborhood for over 50 years, built on an apricot orchard in what was then unincorporated Santa Clara County. My grandfather ...

That noble and delicate fruit, first planted in California in the gardens of the Spanish missions and today produced in orchards covering 14,500 acres in the San Joaquin Valley, is endangered.