It is a nice shrub for naturalizing a landscape and provides erosion control, a benefit for landowners and wildlife. Several members of Lepidoptera benefit from American hazelnut as it is a host plant ...

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Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press Oregon State University plant breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher looks at jars of different hazelnut cultivars at his laboratory near Corvallis, Ore. Mehlenbacher has developed ...

Bruck examines young hazelnut trees that he grafted. Dylan Bruck slid onto the seat of his ATV. His border collie, Zoey, leapt in after him and crawled between his legs. Bruck straightened his ...

Cultivating truffles in Sonoma County? It has been an intriguing idea since Henry Trione first explored it with his friend J. Ralph Stone in the 1970s. But growing truffles in Sonoma County didn’t ...

In that decade, Ferraro Rocher’s factory has quadrupled in size and it now processes 24,000 tons of those goodies’ primary ingredient, after chocolate: hazelnuts. But the company has to buy over 90 ...

While walking through some woods in Clarke County this week, I noticed a faint, citruslike fragrance in the chilly air. I quickly spied the source, a witch-hazel tree in full bloom. The small tree ...

The creamy, buttery, crunchy, sweet hazelnut inspires our earthborn senses. Charred shells found in ancient middens from Scotland to the Pacific Northwest, dated at 9,000 years old, share a story of ...