YUMA — When Mark Kuechel was a boy, he nearly got lost in the maze of unnamed dirt roads and citrus groves in eastern Yuma County running his dad's tractor. He couldn’t see the horizon over 28,000 ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Between 1966 and 1972, Art Freeman planted more than 20,000 trees, transforming 240 acres of rocky desert along the Salt River in east Mesa into a lush citrus orchard. At the time, he ...

Citrus groves once spread across metro Phoenix, supplying packing houses in the area with oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit and other varieties. Development paved over many of the original groves, ...

PHOENIX — With temperatures in Arizona just right for the citrus harvesting season, the St. Mary’s Food Bank is now accepting donations through the end of April. Residents can drop off extra fruit ...

Don't toss that supermarket lemon. Learn how to grow lemon trees (Citrus x limon) from seeds to produce one of the most fragrant flowering trees around.

FOX 10's Steve Nielsen catches up with Mesa Mayor Mark Freeman about the city's effort to preserve one of the Cs that Arizona is known for – citrus. He says protecting Arizona's agriculture is ...

If you want your citrus trees to produce an abundance of healthy fruit in winter, now is the time to care for them. I grew up in Arizona, where I had no appreciation for the absurd quantities of ...

“Citrus in central Arizona has been knocked on its back,” Wright said. “But on the other hand, there are some signs of life in surprising places.” Citrus growers were paid to not farm On a February ...

Citrus remains an iconic stamp of Arizona's history and a symbol of agricultural heritage dating back to when the industry was inscribed as one of the foundational Five C's that built the economy of a ...

Citrus groves once spread across metro Phoenix, producing grapefruit, lemons, oranges and tangerines. Growth pushed the largest citrus groves out of Phoenix, leaving only niche operations that often ...