Things are getting nutty around my garden. Literally. The squirrels have been doing a lot of nut planting, mostly black walnuts, and I’ve joined in the game by removing excess seedlings, letting just ...

In this image provided by Lee Reich shows hazelnut plants in New Paltz, NY. In late summer, gardeners, squirrels, chipmunks eagerly wait for hazelnuts to ripen in their husks and then drop to the ...

In mid-March, a friend showed me some pictures of her honey bees coming back to the hive with full loads of yellow pollen tucked along their legs. My friend lives near the Spokane River and the bees ...

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 ...

Juggling two crops in the same field isn’t for the faint of heart, particularly when one is as enduring and expensive to establish as hazelnuts. Yet farmers planting hazelnuts have a powerful ...