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% ...

If we could stand in a landscape that our Mesolithic ancestors called home, what would we see around us? Scientists have devised a method of analyzing preserved hazelnut shells to tell us whether the ...

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 ...

A team of environmental management specialists, dendrologists and Indigenous studies researchers found evidence showing that Indigenous people living in British Columbia cultivated hazelnut trees long ...

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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 ...

CANTON, Minn. - A slow, lumbering machine built to harvest blueberries is expected to greatly speed up development of commercial farming of hazelnuts throughout the upper Midwest. Sue Wiegerefe and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An archaeologist takes samples of pollen found in soil to understand the changing vegetation of a site: a companion technique to the authors' analysis of hazelnut shells. If we could stand in a ...