I was walking the trails at York Land Trusts’ Hilton Farm last week. There is a beautiful spot there where the sun glints off the river and floods the woods with light. On that particular day the sun ...

Hickory trees and their nuts have always meant quite a lot to rural folks in our part of the world. The nuts of the one we know as shagbark hickory have always been valued in country cooking. Indeed, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan's forests grow a range of edible nuts each fall — making squirrels, deer and even a few bears happy — and if you're up ...

Shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, is native to southeast Nebraska. The common name refers to the long, peeling strips of bark on mature trees. They bear edible nuts that are highly sought after by both ...

Both humans and wildlife are busy foraging this first month of autumn for a tough nut to crack — Wisconsin’s flavorful hickory nut. Champions of this oft-overlooked edible know just where to go ...

My husband was raised in an area with many shagbark hickory trees and has collected nuts for many years. His question is: Why are there worms in nuts from some trees and not others and why do some ...

Black chokeberries, elderberries, nanny berries, service berries, butternut, shagbark hickory nuts and wild plums were among the fruits and nuts that sustained the Ho-Chunk people for hundreds of ...