Mention Hammons Products Company and the black walnut industry comes to mind. The company, with headquarters in Stockton, Mo., is known as "The Black Walnut People." The Hammons company, now in its ...

This year has produced a bumper crop of black walnuts in the region. Despite being a nuisance to some, black walnuts are harvested for use in baking, sold for profit, and used as deer bait. The ...

JASPER COUNTY, Mo. — October is walnut season, and as the nuts fall from the trees, one family continues their harvest tradition spanning generations. For Clifford Block, the walnut doesn’t fall far ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - This time of year, people across the Ozarks look forward to the fall season kicking off with the weather eventually turning cooler and the fall holidays approaching. Plus, ...

LANESBORO — Frank Wright of Lanesboro is a forager. Not unlike a squirrel, he goes from yard to yard in search of black walnuts, bringing his harvest home in five gallon buckets, removing their hulls, ...