The tangled pile of uprooted trees in the center of the bare, frozen field was so large it dwarfed the nearby farmhouse. In the shadow of snow-capped mountains, Peter Andres watched as the pile ...

October is hazelnut season in Oregon. As the fall foliage hits it peak, but before the rains come, the Willamette Valley’s roughly 1,000 hazelnut farmers are busy collecting their crop. More than 60% ...

The Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative is looking to make growing and selling hazelnuts a reality for farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Savanna Institute, Regenerative Agriculture ...

The birds and bugs are singing at Dave Bohnhoff’s farm in Plymouth, Wisconsin. His hazelnut orchard is a paradise for chipmunks, blue jays, and insects, as well as a group of visiting farmers here to ...

In this image provided by Lee Reich shows hazelnut plants in New Paltz, NY. In late summer, gardeners, squirrels, chipmunks eagerly wait for hazelnuts to ripen in their husks and then drop to the ...

Dear Master Gardener: What kind of nut trees can we grow in northern Minnesota? Can we grow black walnuts? Answer: Hazelnuts are hardy in northern Minnesota (zone 3). The hazelnuts you find in the can ...

ROSEMOUNT, Minn. - Might hazelnuts one day be a third crop in Minnesota? "I would say a third crop, not the third crop," said Lois Braun, a University of Minnesota hazelnut researcher. Braun led a ...

LAKE CITY, Minn. — Located along the bluffs outside of Lake City is Nine Hazels Farm, a hazelnut farm and nursery that sells fresh roasted hazelnuts, hazelnut oil and other products along with ...

Volunteers from around Western Mass. journeyed Sunday along back roads through dense woods to help the first commercial hazelnut farm bring in its 2024 harvest. Seva and Kalyon Water work an ...

Things are getting nutty around my garden. Literally. The squirrels have been doing a lot of nut planting, mostly black walnuts, and I’ve joined in the game by removing excess seedlings, letting just ...