Archives for: May 2010
05/16/10
09:12:27 am by pinenut, Categories: Background , Tags: farm products, field day, forests, garden party, growing mushrooms, locally produced, missouri, mushroom farms, mushrooms, natural resources, ozarks, pine esential oil Pine Essential Oil flows from Mushroom Garden
Last year on our Missouri farm, we hosted an alternative "garden party". We invested in 1000 mushroom plugs from 7 different species (part trade/ part cash). A group of folks came over to the shop and with the help of a local mushroom guy, we all made m… more »
05/14/10
08:26:12 am by pinenut, Categories: Background , Tags: food, gather pine nuts, how to store pine nuts, native, native american foods, nut pine, pine nuts, traditional foods The Nut Pine - America's pine nut. Traditional storage by Native Americans of pine nut harvests for year long use
Of high importance to the Gosiutes as food was the fruit of the nut pine (Pinus monophylla). The expedition to the mountains each fall for gathering pine nuts was one of the great fixed events of the year; and to this day, when so little dependence is pl… more »
05/13/10
01:48:18 pm by pinenut, Categories: Background , Tags: harvesting, middle east pine nuts, pine nut harvesting, pine nut trees, pinenut tree, price of pine nuts in the middle east Pine Nut Harvesting in The Middle East -
This is a neat little video about pine nut harvesting in Lebannon. I have gotten calls from people asking for Lebanese pine nuts. The trees in the video look like P. Pinea, but I also understand from talking to people, that P.Edulis was planted on along… more »
05/11/10
11:12:16 am by pinenut, Categories: Background , Tags: how to shell pine nuts, inshell pine nuts, machine, peel pine nuts, pine nut sheller, pine nuts, shelled, shelled pine nuts, shelling pine nuts The American Pine Nut Kernel Peeler - A Valentine from George
Right around valentine's day, George made a table top pine nut sheller from a food processor for about $20.00. It was pretty nifty but because it was based in a roto shelling method there was lots of wasted kernels. One problem with the first design was… more »
05/08/10
07:31:27 pm by pinenut, Categories: Background , Tags: american pine nuts, local foods, pine nuts, produced, slow food, u.s. pine nuts, united states, us pine nut farms, washington d.c. Washington D.C. - Fine Dining Discovers America's Pine Nuts
One of the greatest pleasures I had this week was talking to an excutive chef at a pretigious dining establishment in Washington D.C. He was pleasure to discuss the ways American Pine Nuts might be used in his kitchen. Between the Chef and I, it was ha… more »
05/04/10
COO Hoodwinks - pine nut mouth has venders side stepping Country of Origin Labeling laws (cool)
As an American in the business of domestic pine nut production, I pay attention to the pine nut market place. I was told recently about pine nut products being produced in the United States and being my fingers have been in the pine nut market for the la… more »
All things pinon nut aka pine nuts from Pinon Penny
The Answers are in the land. To be of it, and it of us - this is method of Goods From The Woods
