Apparently, Grandma knows how to spot Christmas decor trends with staying power. Ceramic Christmas trees first became popular in the 1970s, and now, several decades later, they're appearing in homes ...
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Master Gardener: Chocolate comes from fruit trees

Everybody loves chocolate. There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans ...
These Chocolate Dipped Oreo Christmas Trees are an easy, festive treat that comes together with just a few ingredients. Start ...
There is a joke that chocolate is a vegetable because it comes from a tree, and it does — the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao). The chocolate tree is an understory tree, thriving in the reduced light ...
Full-size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (You will need one cup for each tree, so buy accordingly.) Bag of mini Reese’s cups (2 per tree) Bag of Hershey’s Kisses (1 per tree) Start with a mini Reese’s cup ...
Demand, disease and climate change are threatening cocoa, but a new breed of clones could keep the treat abundant and tasty Colin Barras The countdown to the chocolate apocalypse has begun—or has it?
The production of high quality chocolate, and the farmers who grow it, will benefit from the recent sequencing and assembly of the chocolate tree genome. The production of high quality chocolate, and ...
One is the fruit of a tree that grows in Israel: carob. The other, chocolate, is derived from the cocoa tree, which bears the scientific name “the food of the gods,” or theobroma. While the carob has ...
In tonight's FarmVille update, we see the release of not just two new trees to the game, but actually four entirely new trees, all of which fit into the current Valentine's Day theme of limited ...
Researchers are working on using mathematics to help stop the spread CHOCOLATE lovers beware: the sweet indulgence is facing a bitter crisis as the swollen shoot cacao tree virus threatens global ...