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% ...

The birds and bugs are singing at Dave Bohnhoff’s farm in Plymouth, Wisconsin. His hazelnut orchard is a paradise for chipmunks, blue jays, and insects, as well as a group of visiting farmers here to ...

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 ...

ROSEMOUNT, Minn. — Might hazelnuts one day be a third crop in Minnesota? "I would say a third crop, not the third crop," said Lois Braun, a University of Minnesota hazelnut researcher. Braun led a ...

PINE RIVER — Happy Dancing Turtle is looking for landowners interested in planting a new crop — hybrid hazelnuts. The organization will be seeking funding to help cover some of the cost of ...

ALBANY, Ore. — Hazelnuts — also called filberts — take center stage in the latest Fresh From Oregon segment. According to Oregon State University, the entire state produces more than 65,000 tons each ...

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 ...

Among the treasures of Oregon’s fabulous Willamette Valley are orchards producing more than 99 percent of the domestic hazelnut crop. And even though, by world standards, we’re ranked as number three ...

Men and women looked up from beneath bent-rimmed caps as the huffing and rumbling inline six-cylinder announced Wayne Chambers’ arrival. The 84-year-old climbed down out of a nearly-same-age Chevrolet ...