This webinar will discuss the social and environmental history of tree nuts in PA and opportunities to get involved today. Special attention will be given to hickories, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and commercial opportunities with these forest foods.
Pennsylvania has legendary tree nut heritage, from its vast hardwood forests and generations of prominent nut growers and the cultivars they stewarded and passed down. The present-day tree crop community in our region is growing significantly, with tree nuts gaining interest as a potential source of staple nutrients, environmental and personal health, and local ecological enterprises. Tree crop enthusiasts from hundreds of miles away travel to PA forests and orchards to gather seeds from some of the best specimens known of hickories, persimmons, honey locusts and more.
Presented by : Robbie Coville, Ecosystem Products and Markets Specialist, DCNR Bureau of Forestry
James C. Finley Center for Private Forests
Address
416 Forest Resources BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802
- Email PrivateForests@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0401
- Fax 814-865-6275
James C. Finley Center for Private Forests
Address
416 Forest Resources BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802
- Email PrivateForests@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0401
- Fax 814-865-6275
