This has been a good growing season for hickory trees. Those scattered about my yard out here on Baker’s Branch are loaded with “fruit.” The squirrels, as they always do, actually started cutting the ...

This means that I never worked very hard to take advantage of the nuts that the big black walnut tree in our back yard drops every fall.

If you were a nut, getting ready to fall from your parent tree, Wilkes University biologist Shealyn Marino asked some ...