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).

This site has discussion groups on tree climbing and on tree care.

It can also help you find a certified arborist.

Visit the Albright's arboretum online.

This site contains recipes for walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, pine nuts and acorns.

ATTRA is a leading information site for farmers and extension agents

interested in sustainable farm practices.

This is the site of a New Zealand estate that provides tours of

its orchards that include chestnut, pine nut and macacamia trees.

Everything you wanted to know about grafting

and great tips too!

Everything the non-commercial growers would want to know about

growing walnuts, hickory, pecans, chestnuts, filberts, almonds, hican,

butternut and heartnuts.

This site contains books on a wide variety of fruit and nut trees.

It is associated with the West Austrailia Nut and Tree Crop Association.

Ernest Grimo, one of NNGA's long time members, discusses

planting and cultural requirements for nut trees.

This site was created by a number of tree organizations and

includes a quarterly magazine on trees, news groups, and tree talk

forums where the visitor can ask questions or post information.

Lon Rombough, one of NNGA's long time members, is engaged

in many projects involving plants, including nut and fruit trees.

Put in your zip code and find your agricultural zone. Site contains

description of zones and frost dates.

Nut growing, timber cutting, pest control, soil and water quality,

landscaping, etc.

Joe Roberts likes to grow nut trees, including black walnut

and Carpathian walnut trees. He has found a number of American

Chestnut sprouts, one of which bore nuts for two years.

Site contains pictures and an e-mail link that can be used to

exchange information with Joe Roberts.

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.

This site contains sections on nut nutrition and industry news.

It also provides lists of professional organizations, culinary schools

and relevant books.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A huge library on macadamias: history, field practices, pests, processing, propagation, trees, research.

Forestry research publications on alley cropping, forest farming,

riparian buffers, silvopasture, and on more general topics

pertaining to agroforestry.

Use SEARCH to find numerous forestry related documents.

Do a search on "walnut" for several relevant publications.

Publications: economics, management, timber prices, marketing, and forest

products. Try a search for "timber" or "forestry"

on the site's search engine.

Horticultural and agricultural catalog of resources for professionals.

Site discusses benefits of agroforestry, silvopasture (mixing trees

and pasture), intercropping, forest farming, and forest gardening.

The Department of Pomology's web site at UC Davis provides an

extensive list of resources on fruits and nuts, a calendar of events,

California fruit and nut crop statistics, and up-to date information on

research activities related to fruit and nut crops.

The Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) is a private,

nonprofit organization formed in 1991. The goal of AFTA is to advance

the knowledge and application of agroforestry as an integrated land

use system to simultaneously meet economic, social and environmental

needs. The Association focuses on temperate agroforestry, with an

emphasis on North America.

A great resource for those who grow trees for products and profits.

Directory includes seed suppliers, nursery suppliers and services,

consultants, wholesalers and traders.

This organization is committed to the development, use and

conservation of perennial plants. The site includes a zone map

with planting suggestions for different fruits and nuts.

Selection & Preparation of acorns for cooking

Acorns were part of the diet of native Americans.

This page contains some native American recipes. Recipes are:

acorn bread, acorn pancakes, acorn stew, acorn-pinon soup.

Discusses the uses for acorns.

Oaks around the world briefly described.

Taste, composition, cultivation, links to other pawpaw sites.

Words, pictures, health benefits, how to grow pawpaw.

Links to crop facts, newsletter and forum.

This 12 page article contains 25 recipes, nutritional and

cultivar information.

A paper copy can be obtained from S.C. Jones.

A comprehensive source of pawpaw information at KYSU.

KYSU has a pawpaw research program directed toward

developing pawpaw as a new commercial tree fruit crop.

Pawpaw enthusiast, Ray Jones, provides information on all aspects of

pawpaw cultivation, and a list of the best pawpaw cultivars with regard

to fruit quality.

This 8 page article, which includes color photos, is not on-line, but

can be obtained from its author, Dr. Desmond Layne.

Links to Organizations and Research Groups.

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.

Louise Ferguson, a pomology extension specialist, provides fact

sheets and a list of farm advisors.

Site contains a listing of some of its extensive library resources,

information on regional fruit groups, and is in the process of

establishing a list of special consultants on various fruits.

The following topics are covered: varieties, propagating, planting,

pruning, watering, harvesting, and disease.

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.

Louise Ferguson, a pomology extension specialist, provides fact sheets,

current research on processing & harvesting, and farm advisor list.

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

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.