My friend Steve Fagin appreciates all that nature has to offer. Perhaps you're familiar with his column and blog, "The Great Outdoors," in which he chronicles his escapades. I always enjoy it when our ...

Hickory nuts are oval-shaped, light-tan nuts found inside of larger, darker hulls. The tree's fall leaf color is a rich gold. Q: My neighbor has this tree that I think is a hickory. Some of the ...

The hickory genus, Carya, includes one of the tastiest nuts-the pecan, and one of the most inedible-the bitternut hickory. But it’s the distinctive shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, that I want to talk ...

Tough to crack and only available online, the hickory nut is worth the effort. If you’ve never tasted hickory nuts, you owe it to yourself to try them. The fall crop has dried and cured sufficiently ...

Michigan's forests grow a range of edible nuts each fall — making squirrels, deer and even a few bears happy — and if you're up for the adventure, you can bring some home for a treat as well. Many of ...

While many species of nuts grow wild, homeowners can also enjoy planting and harvesting their own nut crops, including pecans, walnuts and hickory nuts. To ensure good quality, proper collecting, ...

The ground was littered with pieces of hickory nut husks, parts of acorns and black walnut shells devoid of their savory treatures. This outing already was a win, and I hadn't been in the woods 15 ...