Michigan offers a variety of nuts ready to pick and harvest from the wild. Here's what to know before foraging.

This year’s NOFA New York Winter Conference had a huge range of workshops, from practical presentations on cover cropping and compost to discussions about reducing food waste and how to advocate for a ...

Learn about growing nuts for food and profit. Selecting, planting, tending and harvesting the perfect homestead crop. What if we told you that you could grow a supernutritious, easily stored food crop ...

Question: I would love to grow American chestnut trees on my property to harvest the nuts for the holidays. Is this possible? Answer: The quick answer to this question is no – though work on ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, a mostly volunteer organization, is looking for help in restoring the once-abundant ...

Americans eat more than 7.5 million pounds of chestnuts every year, most of them imported from Italy, China and Korea, even though the Midwest has perfect climate conditions to grow the nut. An ...

These days our world seems to grow ever faster. Of course, faster is a relative term - for the scientists trying to revive the American chestnut tree, even the fastest work still takes years. You ...

While you rake your newly fallen leaves over the next two weeks, keep an eye out for acorns, walnuts, and chestnuts. You can ...

One of the great autumn pastimes of the 1800s was nutting — where families, friends and farmers went around clubbing stately chestnut trees, or shimmying up 100-foot tall trunks to pound the branches.