Apple tree laden with fruits growing in a backyard - Peter Shaw/Getty Images When you're snacking on apples, you expect them to fragment with a loud crunch, the flavors to explode in your mouth, and ...

In the valley of the Kickapoo River is the town of Gay Mill, Wisconsin, population 491, where apple trees far outnumber the people, but the population swells considerably when the Cortland apples are ...

This year's Bayfield Apple Festival probably will go down in history books as the year of the Cortland. Apple orchards across the Bayfield peninsula report that the Cortland, an all-purpose apple ...