George and I spent a good deal of time on the ground in the Southwest, thank goodness! Saturday August 28th, I was again out in the woods, scoping coning of soft shell pine nuts. There will be a harvest. Last year, we saw close to 200,000 lbs of soft sh… more »

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… more »

I have had a half dozen calls over the last week about shelling American Pine Nuts. Last year, Costco turned down American Pine Nuts because the processors could not remove the membranes. The kernels looked dirty and by in large, the poor effort soiled… more »

Today's post are excerpts of a article in the Salem News by John Hambacker, a retired Salem High School science teacher who has spent time the past few months studying the possibility of a biomass facility that would produce electricity for Salem, MO. Th… more »

Link: http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017779316&pubid=ag047 Increased global interest will keep pine nut supplies short in 2010/11 Tuesday May 25 2010 FOLLOWING historically high prices of pine nuts seen i… more »