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Nutella, The Spread That Made Hazelnuts Famous
Original story in CBS NEWS Share Hazelnuts sustain family businesses, and star in recipes, in the Langhe region of Piedmont, Italy, where the rolling hills are covered with hazelnut trees. "The climate here is perfect for them," said Emanuele Canaparo. He has about...
Maternal Nut Consumption During Pregnancy Linked to Improvements in Neurodevelopment in Children
Analysis of the results showed that the group of children whose mothers ate more nuts during the first trimester of pregnancy obtained the best results in all the tests measuring cognitive function, attention capacity and working memory.
Eating Nuts In the First Trimester Boosts Baby’s Intelligence, Study Suggests
Women who eat nuts in early pregnancy have brainier kids, a study suggests.
Eating Nuts Early In Your Pregnancy “Makes Baby More Intelligent,” Study Finds
A new study has claimed that eating nuts early in your pregnancy can boost the baby’s intelligence.
Scientists Breed Hazelnuts as the Next Cash Crop for Midwest Farmers
Original post at Newsbug.info By Greg Stanley, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) From a hill surrounded by the thawing mud of empty cornfields, farmer Chris Gamer leaned over a 1-year-old hazelnut bush. "This makes me really happy," he said, holding a catkin - a cluster of...
Pear & Hazelnut Frangipane Tart with Salted Caramel Pear Sauce
Original post in Stuff.com by Nicola Galloway Growing food trees in the backyard is a glorious lesson in patience. While some trees will bear fruits within a year of planting – like our omega plum that produced 20 kilograms in its first season – others are slow...
Syrian Refugees Toil on Turkey’s Hazelnut Farms with Little to Show for It
Original post in New York Times By David Segal Hazelnuts drying in Akcakoca on the Black Sea coast of northern Turkey, which grows about 70 percent of the world’s supply. Credit Omer Urer/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images On farms that produce 70 percent of the world’s...
Farm Diversifies Into Hazelnuts from Grass Seed
Original post in Capital Press Before 2009, Jay Thompson and his father, Tim, farmed only grass seed. The recession, which hit the grass seed and nursery industries especially hard, forced them to diversify. “It happened to coincide with some of the first releases of...
Brothers See Hazelnuts as Their Future
Original post in Capital Press CRESWELL, Ore. — A lot of brotherly love is going into these two organic hazelnut orchards. Brothers Taylor, Austin and Ben Larson and their parents, John and Debbie Larson, are partners in My Brothers’ Farm that includes a home orchard...
Hazelnut Conversion Couldn’t Happen Too Soon
Original post in Capital Press By CRAIG REED HARRISBURG, Ore. — If brothers John and Tony Langdon could back up in time, they would have planted hazelnut trees on their Willamette Valley land 10 years earlier. Instead, they got into the hazelnut business just five...
