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.

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

In this edition of ID That Tree, learn how to tell Red Hickory apart from its cousins shellbark, shagbark and pignut hickory. Located typically in upland dry sites, red hickory stands out with ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Cami Koons, - Iowa Capital Dispatch Apr. 7, 2025 5:30 am, Updated: Apr. 9, 2025 12:15 pm ...

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 ...

It's one of the rare tracts in Western North Carolina spared from industrial logging, according to the release, with virtually no tree cutting on the property for 100 years or longer, home to ...