Hickories, oaks, walnuts and other nut-bearing trees are dropping their season’s produce now as fall arrives in northeast Kansas. These nuts are an important food source for deer, turkeys, squirrels ...

In a book that I used for writing ideas for my class I recently discovered an interesting fact. Did you know that pecans are one of the few indigenous (native) nuts in the U.S.? That sent me ...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : cracking the nut -- The Native Americans' nut -- "Pekan Nuttrees" : Europeans encounter the pecan -- "...the forest into an orchard" : passive cultivation ...