LAKE CITY, Minn. - Norman Erickson never gets sick of hazelnuts. The city boy turned farmer even has a license plate on his truck that says HAZLNUT. Erickson and his wife, Mary Erickson, own Hazelnut ...

Volunteers from around Western Mass. journeyed Sunday along back roads through dense woods to help the first commercial hazelnut farm bring in its 2024 harvest. Seva and Kalyon Water work an ...

It's time for Dining Month, presented by Deer District and its spooky Halloween-themed alter ego, Fear District. Throughout the month of October, we'll be serving up fun and fascinating content about ...

BUTTERFIELD, Minn. -- In 2004, Norm Penner started planting hazelnut bushes on his farm in Butterfield. While the project has had challenges, Penner thinks there's still hope for hazelnuts with the ...

From a hill surrounded by the thawing mud of empty cornfields, farmer Chris Gamer leaned over a 1-year-old hazelnut bush. "This makes me really happy," he said, holding a catkin — a cluster of pollen ...

What do an apple grower looking to add crops, a marketing professional working to introduce consumers to sustainable varieties, and a fourth generation dairy farmer looking to diversify have in common ...

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% ...

LAKE CITY, Minn. — Located along the bluffs outside of Lake City is Nine Hazels Farm, a hazelnut farm and nursery that sells fresh roasted hazelnuts, hazelnut oil and other products along with ...

Oregon’s hazelnut industry seems largely unperturbed by a culling process that has roiled other agricultural sectors. From cranberries to cattle and from peanuts to poultry, consolidation among ...

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 ...

Once part of the neglected underclass of the mixed-nut can, hazelnuts often sadly sat at the bottom after the cashews and peanuts were nabbed. They outranked only Brazil nuts . . . maybe. Now, it ...

As soon as the first hazelnuts fall to the ground, the harvest season begins. Those who know a few tricks about gathering, drying, and storing can enjoy hazelnuts well beyond winter. The main harvest ...