It looks like we will have a wonderful hickory harvest at A Wild Crops Farm. Hickory trees produce nuts almost every other year. 2009, there wasn't a hickory nut to be found up or down the state of Missouri.
We have several hickory trees on down on the bottoms of our farm. Additionally, we are hoping that several other organic farmer's in Missouri will have hickory nuts.

2010 will be a great year for hickory.

We met a great lady from river country who will help provide our clients with hickory nuts. While not certified organic, her farm products are chemical free, pesticide free and 100% natural. This lady knows her nuts and we look forward to offer her hickory nuts as well as our certified wild crop organic hickory. We do have to charge a bit more for ours, because of the certification. However, all the farmers we work with, respect the land and have good land ethics and share our values. We are really proud of our work with small farmers and wild crop harvest here in the Ozarks. In helping farmers make money with their wild plants, we help preserve biodiversity.

This year, we have wholesale hickory in 50 lb bags for $3.00 lb. Because hickory is difficult to process (even with George's sheller) shelled hickory nuts are pretty expensive. We will try and offer smaller quantities so people who want to make that special hickory cake or pie, won't have to buy a whole lb. We will have hickory nuts to ship mid October and it looks to be a great year
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