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, ...

Tiger nuts, one of the hottest superfoods on the market, are not, in fact, nuts. These wrinkled, marble-sized orbs are small, tuberous rhizomes of a sedge grass (cyperus esculentus lativum) that’s ...

Some people go nuts cleaning up those green-husked grenades that drop from walnut trees every fall, but one local family decided to turn the nuisance into a delicacy. For the past five years, the ...

Fresh fruit from your garden is so nourishing. There’s nothing like feasting on tree-ripened peaches. Here are some suggestions to make the fruit of your labor more productive. FIGS, FRESH OR DRIED: ...

If you’ve ever walked into your yard or local orchard during the later part of the season and assumed everything juicy, crunchy, or delicious was already gone, you’re in for a treat. There’s something ...

José Francisco Conceição started harvesting Brazil nuts on his small family plot in the Amazon forest 32 years ago. It wasn’t until a few months ago that he actually made enough of a profit from his ...

Hazelnuts should be harvested from the ground before squirrels and jays get them. Lay hulled shells in the sun or a warm, dry place. Crack a few to check kernels for dryness. Dried nuts still in the ...