While many species of nuts grow wild, homeowners can also enjoy planting and harvesting their own nut crops, including pecans, walnuts and hickory nuts. To ensure good quality, proper collecting, ...

The hickory genus, Carya, includes one of the tastiest nuts-the pecan, and one of the most inedible-the bitternut hickory. But it’s the distinctive shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, that I want to talk ...

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 ...

GOING NATIVE: The Acornucopia Project's Bill Whipple, far left, recently convened a group of local chefs, bakers and food artisans to get creative with ingredients produced from wild, native nuts such ...