The Friends of the Tanger Arboretum at LancasterHistory hosted an early celebration of Arbor Day on Saturday, April 18. Leaf & Learn brought attendees of all ages to the LancasterHistory Museum & ...

Chris Longenecker, a Lancaster County’s Poet Laureate and a volunteer for the Tanger Arboretum, holds a seed as she recites a poem during the dedication for a newly planted bitternut hickory tree in ...

A volunteer hickory is growing in my backyard. No human planted it. Likely a squirrelly did the delightful deed. The rodent buried it where sun-loving prairie plants were growing, which means as the ...

The hickory genus, Carya, includes one of the tastiest nuts-the pecan, and one of the most inedible-the bitternut hickory. But it’s the distinctive shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, that I want to talk ...

Did you know that pecan is a relative of the native bitternut hickory? Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee shares more about this species, which features relatively narrow leaflets, strong sulphur ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa) is a shaggy gray-bark species. This ...

What if New England trees could produce a culinary oil on par with olive oil? What if they already do – except practically no one knows it? Local producers and foresters are working to put homegrown ...

You've read 5 stories this month. Support the CT Mirror reporting you rely on. In Hamden, west of Farm Brook Reservoir, is a meadow. Once the meadow belonged to dairy farmer Harold Hansen but the ...