Tough to crack and only available online, the hickory nut is worth the effort. If you’ve never tasted hickory nuts, you owe it to yourself to try them. The fall crop has dried and cured sufficiently ...

Autumn is on course to provide some great, tasty nut meats. After several spotty production years, Hank Judd, of Sauk County, and many other area outdoors gatherers have had their eyes toward the sky, ...

While many species of nuts grow wild, homeowners can also enjoy planting and harvesting their own nut crops, including pecans, walnuts and hickory nuts. To ensure good quality, proper collecting, ...

Hickory nut kernels are so difficult to extract in large pieces. Learn how to eat hickory nuts and how to shell hickory nuts in a way that allows easy nut meat extraction. One of my family’s favorite ...

I was walking the trails at the Great Bay Wildlife Refuge in Newington, N.H. last week. There is a beautiful spot there where the sun glints off of Great Bay and floods the woods with light. On that ...

I was walking the trails at York Land Trusts’ Hilton Farm last week. There is a beautiful spot there where the sun glints off the river and floods the woods with light. On that particular day the sun ...

GOING NATIVE: The Acornucopia Project's Bill Whipple, far left, recently convened a group of local chefs, bakers and food artisans to get creative with ingredients produced from wild, native nuts such ...

My husband was raised in an area with many shagbark hickory trees and has collected nuts for many years. His question is: Why are there worms in nuts from some trees and not others and why do some ...