About 2,000 black walnut trees are in abundance in a 90-acre wooded area near Baldwin City owned by Jackie Kennedy. Thousand Cankers disease threatens Kansas trees. To prevent the spread of this ...

For many urban gardeners, a black walnut is not a friendly tree. Though black walnut is valued for its fine quality timber, it has a detrimental property that inhibits many plant species from growing ...

Q: I'm trying to identify the tree in the photo. I've been told that the nuts are not edible. Can you help? - Scott Bundy. A: The tree in the photo is black walnut, Juglans nigra, and it's a ...

The venerable black walnut trees have so far escaped the blights, insects and droughts that have all but destroyed some other local species. Black walnut shells are a common presence in Native ...

If you live near a walnut tree, there’s no escaping hearing the hard plunking sound of falling nuts this time of year. There’s also no avoiding the dark stains on the streets coming from walnuts ...

In the simplest terms, a nut is an edible seed. We eat many kinds of nuts, from hazelnuts to Brazil nuts, pine nuts to pistachios. Most of the country’s nuts are grown here in California. In 2012, ...

Each year the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival, held in August, carries a different theme. These topics range from ‘wood’ or ‘iron’ to ‘lard’ or ‘the garden.’ A few years back the theme was ‘black walnuts ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! A chance of frost is in the forecast as the growing season winds its way down. Many gardeners perform a fall cleanup and plant a cover crop such as winter ...

Landscaping under any tree can be challenging, thanks to the dense shade cast by the branches and the abundance of thick roots in the soil. But black walnut trees (Juglans nigra) seem to be in a ...