Project Type: Partnership
Funds awarded in 2024: $28,957.00
Projected End Date: 03/31/2026
Grant Recipient:
Black Squirrel Farms
Region: Northeast
State: New York
Project Leader:
Sara Tyler
Black Squirrel Farms
Description:
This handbook is designed to support beginners and small operators working to prepare wild harvested black walnuts, butternuts or hickory nuts for storage, sale, cracking or planting. It includes examples of gathering, hulling, and drying practices at various scales being successfully applied by people in the US Northeast.
Type:
Manual/Guide
File:
Download file (PDF)
Target audience:
Farmers/Ranchers
This product is associated with the project "Identifying and Collecting Seed from Genetically Superior Walnut, Hickory and Pecan Trees on Yates County, New York Farms"
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.