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 ...

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’ ...

The smell is always the first indication. The Colorado pinyon pine – technically, Pinus edulis, aka two-needle pine, two-needle piñon or simply piñon – smells much, much sweeter and sappier than other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WEBVTT P>> LIKE A SUGARLESS PBUTTER-CRUNCH IT'S THAT PDELICIOUS. PREPORTER: NEW MEXICO'S PINON NUT PIS A HOT COMMODITY, FEW FOODS ON PTHE PLANET ARE MORE EXPENSIVE. P>> THE PINON IS THE MOST DESIRED ...

A long time ago, I lived in Utah, in the way out back, working on a construction site. There were a lot of local native Navajos working as welders. As you were talking to them, they would constantly ...

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 ...