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 ...

RINGOES — The first time Ozgur Tunceli planted hazelnut saplings on her Hunterdon County farm, deer came through and ate them to the ground. The next time, her goats did the same. “Imagine me sitting ...

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 ...

A push to make hazelnuts the New Jersey state nut is the result of decades of Rutgers research to turn it into a New Jersey cash crop.

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% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...