Michigan offers a variety of nuts ready to pick and harvest from the wild. Here's what to know before foraging.

Assailed by mosquitoes and wary of snakes, Jorge Lengua walks watchfully through the Bolivian Amazon collecting Brazil nuts from the forest floor. Lengua, 56, wears rubber boots to protect his ankles ...

For each bag of 70 kilograms of nuts (about 154 pounds), which takes about eight hours to fill, a harvester earns the equivalent of about $40 - Copyright AFP/File ...

The harvest of the expensive pine nut happens only about once every five years. Reporter Beth Hoffman spends a day with a Navajo storyteller and pine nut harvester in Utah. This is DAY TO DAY. I'm ...

ZHEJIANG, East China — Shen Ailan and her husband Xiang Chaochun stand on the branches of gently swaying hickory trees, wielding long bamboo sticks. The pair look as if they could be from the film ...

Instead of harvesting pine nuts by climbing trees, the man in China used a hydrogen balloon. When his balloon became untethered, he drifted off. He landed 200 miles from where he started. Good morning ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Valley Air District is taking action to improve air quality with a new offer for Valley nut growers. The District accepted more than $18 million in federal funding to help ...

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