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 ...

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% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For all devoted fans of Nutella, the threat of a global hazelnut shortage is disturbing news. The soaring popularity of the rich cocoa and hazelnut spread has driven up demand for hazelnuts worldwide, ...