Youthful, blight-resistant Jefferson trees are the heroes of this fall’s Willamette Valley hazelnut season, boosting Oregon’s crop yield. The harvest started early, at the end of a hot, dry August but ...

Spring is just around the corner and gardeners can hardly wait to get their hands in the soil. Got questions before you get started? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool ...

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Harry Wesley planted one of the first filbert, as they were known then, orchards in the Garden Valley area west of Roseburg in about 1950. It was a 5-acre Barcelona nut orchard. Those ...

The tangled pile of uprooted trees in the center of the bare, frozen field was so large it dwarfed the nearby farmhouse. In the shadow of snow-capped mountains, Peter Andres watched as the pile ...

Several species of hazelnuts (we usually call the plants filberts) can be grown here, but I'm guessing that you're talking about the European filbert (Corylus avellana) that yields the hazelnut you ...

After years of living in the shadow of well-funded and aggressively marketed pistachios, almonds and walnuts, Oregon hazelnuts are now ready to inspire manufacturers and consumers as the star ...

RIDGEFIELD — The Baur family farm outside of Ridgefield, when first planted in 1961, started as a pear orchard. Farm co-owner Rob Baur remembered, when he was younger and the family was trying to ...

Jeff Newton, manager of Christensen Farms’ 700 acres of hazelnut trees, looks at the sky hopefully and says he wishes for a few dry days. If the dry days come, you’ll find him directing spraying from ...

The hazelnut business is in a bind. Demand is rising, supply is tight, and a deadly fungal disease is constraining production. But one man may have found a solution. Demand for hazelnuts is on the ...

Although Oregon is known for many exports — from timber to hipster irony — few people are aware that it's actually the country's leading source of hazelnuts. Growers estimate that 99 percent of the ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in FranklinCounty profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. A lovely low-maintenance native shrub, American hazelnut, ...