October is hazelnut season in Oregon. As the fall foliage hits it peak, but before the rains come, the Willamette Valley’s roughly 1,000 hazelnut farmers are busy collecting their crop. More than 60% ...

I grow just three filbert trees in my front garden. So far, only one is a decent producer. This past warm summer was good to this one tree and now I have a huge bowl of nuts that I need to roast. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I wouldn’t blame a Pacific Northwest newcomer for not appreciating hazelnuts. They’re an acquired taste. Not as extreme a project as sushi or single-malt Scotch, of course. But speaking as a relative ...

When I lived back on the East Coast, if you had asked whether I liked hazelnuts, my answer would have been an emphatic "no." Hazelnut coffee and the imported oil for vinaigrettes were fine. However, ...

Demand for hazelnuts is on the rise globally. That's due in no small part to the popularity of products like Nutella. But the U.S. has remained a relatively small player in the global hazelnut ...

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 ...

Last month, this column focused on the desirable characteristics of Christmas trees, one of which is good needle retention.