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| PECAN |
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| BLACK WALNUT | PERSIAN WALNUT | NUT SEARCH | FRUITS |
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GENERAL INTEREST: TREES, NUTS & FRUITS
Identify trees by leaves, fruit or Latin name on this site. This site contains pictures of many different trees together with their leaves and fruit to assist you in identification.
Garden Sheds - Shedspot is the online King of Sheds, with a huge range of garden, workshop and general purpose sheds as well as aviaries, carports and garages all at discounted prices and delivered door to door.
Environmental education focusing on trees and forests for children in pre-K through grade 3. Meet whimsical illustrated characters dedicated to carrying tree planting and tree care messages. Activities/Games/stories/Lesson Plans at www.treetures.com. Treetures® Environmental Education Program partners with US Forest Service, American Forests and United Nations Environment Programme to bring children the "vision of healthy forest ecosystems for every community. "
Crate & Basket manufactures wooden bushel baskets for harvesting nuts, fruit, vegetables, and produce.
This blog includes a wealth of information about nut nutrition and the health benefits of nuts along with historical facts, nut quotes and folklore. The visitor will also find original recipes that incorporate nuts in unique ways. Visitors are invited to add comments, contribute recipes and express any "nutty" thoughts they might have.
The mission of IPPFBE is "scientific selection and improvement of under utilized perennial plants for the production of food, timber, and energy and the preservation and enhancement of soil for the benefit of all."
Our motto is to provide our customers the best possible sesame seeds, sesame oil, sesame powder and other sesame products at the lowest possible prices.
This site provides on-line education in a wide variety of subjects, including horticulture. Within horticulture, it provides on-line courses in nut crops.
English apples, organic lamb and apple juice at Farm Shop in Sussex (England). Tullens Fruit Farm breeds apples not found in supermarkets and is working against the standardization of fruit imposed by large supermarkets.
Which vitamins and minerals does my favorite nut provide? This Web site answers this question and others like it.
An online resource for lovers of gardening
Large list of recipes for almonds, black walnuts, pecans, macadamias, pine nuts and cashews
The organization which owns this Web site is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to distribute knowledge about trees and enhance their preservation. Click here to learn more about 20 years of research which has culminated in the book, Conifers Around the World.
Research reports demonstrate the role of nuts in combating various diseases. Included on the site is a chart showing the nutritional content of individual nuts.
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance.
Click on "horticulture" to bring up courses on fruit and nut growing--both northern nut growing and nut growing in the tropics or warm areas.
This Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture site helps the non-specialist diagnose commonly encountered insect orders. 21 insect orders are covered. Color photos are included in the coverage.
Unusual edible plants and fruit trees, including specialties from Chile.
This site, put up by Texas A & M, covers grafting, budding, and other methods of clonally propagating fruit and nut trees.
This site is a portal for speakers and organizations concerned with tree growing, forests and environmental issues.
Tips in planting, growing and grafting fruit trees. The Home Orchard Society offers a publication dealing with the technical and practical aspects of growing fruit trees. You can see its table of contents on the Web site.
A directory of reviewed agricultural sites. Includes links to nurseries and greenhouses, seed companies, herb farms, garden supply, vegetable growers, landscape companies, botanical gardens, wineries, natural beauty, arts and crafts.
This "howto" guide is well illustrated and covers pruning in detail.
Click here to visit this site that presents the latest in nut nutrition research, recipes and cooking tips. This site, run by the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research and Education Foundation, concentrates on the following nuts: pistachio, pine, walnut, pecan macadamia, hazelnut, cashews, almonds and brazil nuts.
Click here to visit this clearinghouse for information on tree seed and direct seeding. It is a vehicle for bringing together those who have tree seed with those who need tree seed.
Click here to visit this clearinghouse for information on tree seed and direct seeding. It is a vehicle for bringing together those who have tree seed with those who need tree seed.
Click here to visit this newly formed USDA sponsored center at Iowa State University. There is detailed information on many market niches, how to get started, business structure and information on marketing and writing business plans.
Click here for this USDA report. (Report 294) A report on production and consumption patterns of fruit and nuts in the US in 2000/2001.
Click here for USDA outlook reports. Select "fruit and tree nuts" from the publications list for forecasts of changing conditions in the US fruit and nut sector. Topics include: production, consumption, prices, trade. You may subscribe for e-mail alerts related to these reports.
Click here to visit the part of the site which focuses on urban food gardens, parks, trails and forests. Visit http://www.ecoiq.com/onlineresources for a broader range of environmental and sustainability issues.
If you're involved with agriculture in a commercial venture, the Smart Marketing articles can be very useful to you. Articles are available for download in printable format (PDF).
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON FRUITS
The PickuptheApples Website aims to provide assistance to apple growers, both commercial and hobbyists.
NUT SEARCH ENGINES
Use SEARCH to find numerous documents on forestry, oak, hickory walnut, pest, deer, wild turkey, etc.
Suggested keywords for this search engine are: nut, walnut, butternut, hickory, oak, forest, road, wildlife, insect, pest, ipm, logging, fertilize, bird, landscape, herbicide, week, flower, soil test, lawn, poison ivy, meal, recreation, drainage.
Suggested keywords for this search engine are: nut, walnut, pecan, hickory, timber, forestry, paulownia, muscadine, tax, capital gain, insect, disease, pest wildlife, turkey, deer, fence, garden, vegetable, compost, and grazing.
There are numerous publications of interest to nut growers and growers of minor fruits such as pawpaw and persimmon on this site, as well as a list of external links. Visitors can also search for a particular nut or fruit on its search engine. Suggested keywords are: pawpaw, filbert, walnut, hickory, black locust, persimmon, chestnut, mushroom, almond.
This site also has a database of information on hundreds fo edible plants and animal feed plants.
The Department of Pomology's web site at UC Davis provides a calendar of events, information about research activities related to fruit and nut crops, and an extensive list of resources on fruits and nuts.
Click the "crop information" button for articles on almond, pistachio, hazel, walnut, apple, apricot, avocado, cherry, cerimoya, citrus, peach,fig, stone fruit, kiwi, olive, pear prune, strawberry, and many more.
Suggested keywords are: pecan, walnut, tax, deer, fence, poison ivy, insect, disease, forestry, garden.
Suggested keywords are: chestnut, beekeeper, garden, fruit, vegetable, herb, insect, integrated pest management, lawn, tree disease. Information on chestnuts is especially detailed.
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON ALMONDS
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON BUTTERNUTS
Visit http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/, scroll down to "Search for Station Publications" and insert the number "235" to access this bibliography which was complied in 2003.
This database contains over 750 named varieties of black, Japanese, and Persian (English or Carpathian) walnuts and butternuts. Most listings are black walnuts. Histories of ortet trees are included.
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON CHESTNUTS
This book was written by Douglas Buege and is recommended for anyone interested in saving endangered species or restoring damaged ecosystems.
This chestnut co-op growers Web site contains chestnut recipes, scheduled chestnut roastings and descriptions of its value-added chestnut products which can be purchased. There is also information about the members of the co-op organization.
This entire Web site is dedicated to chinquapin chestnuts.
Much of the information on this site was developed by the American Chestnut Foundation.
Sign up to exchange e-mail with other chestnut growers. You can post information or ask a question of everyone on the list with one e-mail.
This site includes a newsletter, information sheets, chapter activities, and backcross program information. Pictures of chestnut leaves and trees are shown to help the visitor distinguish one chestnut tree from another.
This article about nut grafting was written by Ed Greenwell, Director of TN Projects, American Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation. He has given nut grafting clinics.
Converse with chestnut growers and enthusiasts from all over the world.
Preparation of nuts for planting, how to plant nuts, care of the young tree. This easy-to-read fact sheet was written by Sandra Anagnostakis.
This site is an online list serve for chestnut growers. The list is an open forum for discussion on all subjects related to the growing of chestnut trees.
Select Search. Then enter "chestnut" into this site's search engine. Some of the articles are about starting chestnut from seed, sources of chestnut trees, chestnut cultivars, chestnut breeding, growing chestnuts.
Selection and preparation of chestnuts
General information about chestnut trees, including the story of the American chestnut tree.
Hill Croddock of the University of Tennessee has accumulated links to a wide variety of chestnut sites. Chestnut links are organized into the following categories: general, blight, American, European, Chinese, Japanese, Southern Hemisphere, chinkapins, recipes, products, nurseries, lumber, chestnut people.
20 years of research has gone into the following information on this site: detailed grafting methods, growing trees from seed, blight information, breeding for resistance, restoration methods and habitat.
Recipes include chestnut stuffing, chestnut soup and chocolate chestnut mousse.
Tips on planting and caring for chestnut trees.
The goal of this site is to bring together and provide information of use to growers, researchers, extension agents, vendors and suppliers.
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON HAZELNUTS
The Hazelnut Consortium is working to develop hybrid hazelnuts into a sustainable crop for much of the US and southern Canada. Visitors to this site can sign up for news updates about this effort.
Picture of Turkish Hazelnut tree.
This site contains comprehensive links and information about hazelnuts, including eastern filbert blight, pest management, pollination, cultivars, nurseries, and orchard floor management.
The visitor will find: a growers handbook, industry newsletter, formulas for large quantities, where to buy hazelnuts, hazelnut links.
This site includes a section on crop characteristics of hybrid bush hazelnuts and a section on marketing hazelnuts.
This site includes recipes, health benefits, and lists ways that hazelnuts can used by the consumer and by the food industry. A good site for consumers or marketers.
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON MACADAMIAS
A huge library on macadamias: history, field practices, pests, processing, propagation, trees, research.
The history of the macadamia nut in Australia.
Members of this organization are nurseries, processors and marketers. Site contains information about harvesting, processing and storing macadamias. It provides a nutrition breakdown of macadamias and discusses health benefits.
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON NUT TREE CROPS
AND FORESTRY
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON OAK
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON PAWPAW
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON PECAN
This site contains information native American wild crops including Ozark Native Pecan. There is a link to sites where these can be purchased.
This site contains information about the value of spiders as natural predators in nut tree pest management.
This site contains nutrition information about pecans and also pecan recipes.
Picture of pecan tree
This site describes pecan trees, where they grow, how they are grown and uses for their nuts.
This site includes recipes which make use of nuts, including pecans.
General information on harvesting pecans.
The following topics are extensively covered: pecan culture, agroforestry, northern pecan varieties, diseases, tree care care, pests. A number of pecan resources are also included in this site's pecan area.
The purpose of this site is to bring together buyers and sellers within the pecan industry. This site has an auction feature.
There are a large number of documents on growing pecans. There are also other documents on fruits, grapes, etc.
There are a large number of links to pecan and other nut related web pages.
There are several documents on growing pecans in New Mexico.
Basic pecan information and many recipes to make pecan pies and other dishes.
The visitor will find: guidelines for size and color of shelled pecans, marketing promotion research, a profile of the pecan industry, information on pecan nutrition, information on the use of pecans in processed foods.
Prices, grades, maketing channels, pecan processors, and marketing alternitives.
Pecan breeding and genetics. Site includes pecan cultivar and pecan photo index.
Soil and site requirements, varieties and seedlings, purchasing, planting and diseases.
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON PERSIMMON
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON PINE TREES
This site is a resource for land managers, pinon harvesters, brokers and consumers of wild pinon nuts. It includes harvest regions, regional harvest forecasts, harvest records, directories of harvesters and brokers, and more.
This site contains information about native American wild crops including native Pinyon Pine Nuts. There is a link to sites where these can be purchased.
This Web site belongs to a nonprofit organization whose mission is to distribute knowledge about trees and enhance their preservation. Click here to learn about 20 years of research which has culminated in the book, Conifers Around the World.
This web site discusses land management policies that have interferred with the commercial pine nut harvest.
This page provides global information about pine nut production. It also contains an article: "Pine Nuts: A Case for Sustainable Non-Timber Forest Products"
The commercial history of pinons.
This page contains recipes that include nuts, including Pinyons.
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON PISTACHIOS
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON BLACK WALNUTS
This site contains Nebraska Nut Growers black walnut cultivar evaluations from 1959 through 2002 including evaluations of cultivars greater than 35% kernel to shell.
This database contains over 750 named varieties of black, Japanese, and Persian (English or Carpathian) walnuts and butternuts. Most listings are black walnuts. Histories of ortet trees are included.
Grower recommendations on 32 topics. Good basic information for landowners interested in establishing and growing black walnut. Some of the topics covered are: seedling sources, black walnut cultivars, planting site selection, weed control, irrigation, pruning, damage prevention, and selling black walnuts.
This site contains pictures of Black Walnuts in Slovenia and links to sites about black walnuts.
A discussion of a rootstock evaluation trial being established by Mark Coggeshall for the Missouri breeding program.
This report discusses walnut breeding resources and objectives in the National Clonal Germplasm Repository. Topics covered include germplasm maintenance, addition of new germplasm, breeding objectives, rootstock development, and vulnerabilities to pests and diseases.
Acrobat Reader is required to read this report. Acrobat reader can be downloaded free at from the Adobe Web site.
General information on the location and growth of black walnut trees, a description of them and uses for them and their nuts.
A document on growing walnut as a commercial enterprise.
On the Web Site of the North Central Forest Experiment Station.
Covers the history of eastern black walnut, plantation establishment (including landowner assistance through state and federal programs), tree care, and harvesting.
An association of woodland owners, foresters, forest scientists and wood-producing industry representatives.
These recipes are part of the Hammond Products Web site. There are recipes for entrees, pies, salads, sandwiches and side dishes. Click the home recipes link on the home page.
A publicaton devoted to growing black walnut.
A good reference for diagnosing walnut pest and disease symptoms.
Topics range from soil selection to commercial growing.
Documents concern harvesting, cultivars, and commercial nut production.
Includes a publication on the characteristics of patented black walnut trees
Genetic traits for improved nut production, available cultivars, prospects for crop development and commercial nut production
LINKS TO RESOURCES ON PERSIAN WALNUTS
This database contains over 750 named varieties of black, Japanese, and Persian (English or Carpathian) walnuts and butternuts. Most listings are black walnuts. Histories of ortet trees are included.
Picture of a grafted walnut tree with black walnut rootstock.
General information on the location and growth of walnut trees, a description of them and uses for them and their nuts.
This report discusses walnut breeding resources and objectives in the National Clonal Germplasm Repository. Topics covered include germplasm maintenance, addition of new germplasm, breeding objectives, rootstock development, and vulnerabilities to pests and diseases.
Acrobat Reader is required to read this report. Acrobat reader can be downloaded free at from the Adobe Web site.
The only major persian walnut breeding program in the U.S. is located at U.C. Davis. This site has a large amount of information on persian walnuts.
Site includes numerous articles and documents on Persian walnuts. Some topics covered are commercial potential, cultivation and harvesting.
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