The shagbark hickory nut has a thick green husk that splits and falls off in the fall. The nuts are edible and have a somewhat sweet taste, if you can beat the squirrels.

If you’ve never tasted hickory nuts, you owe it to yourself to try them. The fall crop has dried and cured sufficiently and right now is their peak season. They’re not available in our stores ...

Shagbark hickory nuts drop from the tree as a green orb the size of a golf ball. That orb is a thick husk and it often splits on impact or as it dries out. The nut is inside.

Despite the lucrative industry, there’s a shortage of workers willing to risk life and limb. Every year, during the September harvest season, dozens of hickory nut farmers are injured or die after ...

The hickory nut is ready when the pithy, green outer husk begins to split. “A lot of people use a hammer to crack the nuts, which is how I grew up, but that can break them into tiny pieces if ...

In commercial nut production, monitoring is done on the trees beginning in August. This involves spreading a harvesting sheet under each tree and shaking the tree. If they get more than three ...

But the buffalo nut tree (Pyrularia pubera), which is most commonly found in the Appalachian Mountain region, and its devlish-looking nuts contain an acrid oil that's poisonous to humans.