For such small pieces of paper, produce labels attract a lot of attention. Affixed to boxes of fruit or vegetables, they serve a utilitarian purpose by advertising what they are and where they come ...

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 ...

2 January 2005 The next few years will see the development of many new forms of intelligent packaging, capable of far more than the labelling and branding roles packaging has served until now.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person holding a box of Welch's Fruit Snacks in a grocery store - ZikG/Shutterstock Fruits and vegetables are an important part ...

Naumes can recall by heart the stories, companies and people behind many of the labels in her collection. MEDFORD, Ore. — Inside a southern Oregon farmhouse, there are pears everywhere: a giant, ...

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 ...

New York based electrical engineer and designer Scott Amron has come up with an idea that could transform the way industries label fruit and vegetables. You may not pay much attention to that fruit ...