Juggling two crops in the same field isn’t for the faint of heart, particularly when one is as enduring and expensive to establish as hazelnuts. Yet farmers planting hazelnuts have a powerful ...

SILVERTON, Ore. — Roy Hari rode on the back of a John Deere tractor driven by his son, Dallas, digging a narrow trench to bury irrigation line between rows of hazelnut trees at his family’s orchard ...

Eastern filbert blight, a fungal pathogen that kills hazelnut trees, first made its way to the Northwest in the 1960s. Since then, farmers have managed the fungus by pruning infected trees and ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Hazelnut, walnut or chestnut trees in your home orchard can keep you supplied with nuts for months if you know the best ways to harvest, handle and store them. Harvesting hazelnuts ...

As prices climb and gardens shrink, many Britons want low-fuss plants that feed families, cool patios and lift spirits. You don’t need a smallholding or a hosepipe on standby to bank reliable, edible ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In the days leading up to Valentine’s Day 2021, Loren Birkemeier, a Canby hazelnut grower and farm owner and operator, said he was expecting a bit of an ice storm. What he wasn ...