By Shelly Leachman Lauded for its health benefits and adored as a topping for toast, the humble avocado is a certified A-lister of the produce world. It’s also a powerful economic engine: avocado ...

Ancient peoples of Latin America saved avocados from extinction by cultivating them after megafauna went extinct, researchers ...

Pruning an avocado tree can be bad or good, depending on when and how you wield your pruning shears. For example, if cut too ...

A painstaking study of an archaeology site in western Honduras showed just how far back the avocado has been farmed.

About five years ago, I planted an avocado pit in a common area landscape island in the parking lot, which has since grown to be a lovely tree. I came home yesterday and noticed one of the ...

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of daily avocado intake for 26 weeks on LE8 in adults with abdominal obesity. An ancillary analysis including participants (n=969; aged 51±14 years) ...

The Avocado Green Mattress focuses on organic materials, and the brand carries the certifications you'd want to see when paying that premium. The Avocado Green Mattress uses organic wool ...

Squeezing avocados bruises the fruit, causing them to spoil faster — and no one wants a brown thumbprint on their avocado salad. Jeff Dickinson, a Hass avocado grower and founder of Dickinson ...

A new film about the avocado industry’s success at driving demand nationwide documents the local as well as global impact of the national marketing program led by the Hass Avocado Board (HAB) since ...