BAKER — Along a dirt road just north of Great Basin National Park, Dayer LeBaron plucks a cone from a pinyon tree and shakes its contents into his calloused hand. The pine nuts almost shine in their ...

While there is still time to enjoy the last days of summer, soon days will become shorter and a new season will be upon us. Fall’s cooler temperatures make the perfect time to explore Western Colorado ...

The Nuwä people of the Mountains utilized more than 100 different species of native plants for food, but none were as prized ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever gazed up at the pine tree in your yard and wondered if you could harvest some fresh pine nuts from those cones, the answer is yes -- and good luck. Pine nuts, also known by their ...

What is a pine nut? Pine nuts come from pine trees, which are conifers or cone producing trees. But pine nuts aren’t actually nuts at all; they are seeds! All pine trees have edible seeds that develop ...

If you’ve ever gazed up at the pine tree in your yard and wondered if you could harvest some fresh pine nuts from those cones, the answer is yes -- and good luck. Pine nuts, also known by their ...

A colleague accosted me at the coffee machine the other day with an urgent question. "Why are pine nuts so expensive?" I promised to find out. And I did. But along the way, I discovered something ...

The beauty of food facts trivia is that there’s so much to learn. For example, have you ever wondered who invented pizza? Or if eggplant is a fruit or coconut a nut? We’ve got the answers to all of ...

A man who lost control of his hydrogen balloon while harvesting pine nuts in China has been found and rescued – after landing in a forest two days later and more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) away.