Sometime around 1962, a kid made his way through the citrus groves of Orange on his bike. When the fruit was in blossom and the air was redolent of the eucalyptus planted as a shield against the Santa ...

A Sno-Kist fruit crate label, shown here in a provided photo, from before 1918. The labels were used to advertise the iconic fruits of the Northwest before the advent of cardboard boxes. Before the ...

The brightly colored labels on apple boxes were strictly utilitarian. For more than a half-century, labels depicting bucolic vistas of Northwest orchards, children with cherubic faces, attractive ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — Lifelong Yakima Valley resident Mike Doty collects fruit crate labels for the thrill of the hunt. “That’s what it’s all about. Stuff we’ve never seen before,” he said. Thomas Hull, a ...

Eye-catching images depicting California as a paradise of health and sunshine blanketed the country during the state’s citrus heyday from the mid-1880s to 1955. Paper labels with vibrant colors were ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — Some of the thousands of old fruit-box labels at Saturday’s annual Yakima Valley Fruit Label Swap meet are rare collectibles worth hundreds of dollars, some have interesting stories ...

A person holding a box of Welch's Fruit Snacks in a grocery store - ZikG/Shutterstock Fruits and vegetables are an important part of our diet and eating the right amount of them can improve our health ...

You’ve likely peeled countless stickers off fruits and vegetables over the years. But have you ever paused to consider what those numbers actually mean? Many people assume they’re simply codes for ...

Laser labels are the new face of fruit in some European countries, and the high-tech labeling could be coming to more U.S. markets too. The technology uses a carbon dioxide laser to etch a brand name ...