Diane Howe sat under the piñon pines in the Chuska Mountains while she and her family picked piñon nuts that the tree graciously sprinkled onto the ground. Next to her lay a blue tarp to catch falling ...

Tall, bushy, spiny and fragrant, the pinyon pine is a beloved feature of the Mountain West — and not just for its beauty. The tiny piñon nuts in the tree’s cones are so good, people in the region have ...

Karen Fischer is an independent writer, editor, and reporter who specializes in food writing that highlights desert communities, aquaculture, and culinary traditions of the American Southwest and Gulf ...

Durango area experiencing best pine nut harvest in 15 years If you like wild food, or local food, or raw food, or free food – this is the time of year and perfect location to take advantage of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Santa Fe – There were more piñon nuts, but fewer piñon trees this fall – a strange and ill omen for the tough, gnarled pine trees that dominate parts of the ...

Sep. 19—Tlahuicole Morales Cortes was far up a piñon tree as a pack of people stooped over below him on the slopes of the rocky landscape northeast of Santa Fe, their heads lowered and eyes trained ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Collecting piñon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic families in the Southwestern U.S. for generations. But environmentalists are concerned ...

When I bought land west of Santa Fe in the late 1980s, it felt like home to me even before I physically moved there in 1992. What made it home were the piñon pines, that forest of short, squat trees.

The spice of roasted piñon nuts and the sweet, vanilla sap of ponderosa pines are aromas that are emblematic of the Southwest’s high alpine desert. It was these aromas that inspired Santa Fe Spirits’ ...

It's been a great year for pinon nuts in New Mexico -- so great it’s inspiring some residents to pick the nuts illegally.Residents in the East Mountains said some of them are getting aggressive -- one ...

Coffee flavored with Pinon nuts are a local specialty in New Mexico. Pinon nuts have a naturally rich buttery texture and flavor. Unless other flavors are added, the resulting coffee will have a nutty ...