Hi, I’m Ryan, and I sell you the best tasting nut there is: the hickory nut.

2026 is shaping up to be a plentiful season

I have been watching the trees all summer. As of late-August 2026, this is going to be a pretty good season.

Dare I say it’s a mast year, at least here in Adams County, PA

Lord willing, I’ll be selling nuts around early November in 2026. The best way to make sure you get some is to sign up for the alert email. Once the nuts are ready to shipped, I will send out a blast email to everyone on the list!

Just drop your email address in the box below to sign up for the yearly alert. Every autumn whenever the hickory nuts are ready to ship I’ll send you an email letting you know.

Man, do I love hickory nuts! There is no other nut that compares.

• Eat them raw
• You can bake with them.
• Make a delicious milk
• make syrup
• use the shells to smoke meat

I like to make a big pile of them and dump it into my mouth!

When I have them, I lovingly separate out the Grade A nuts. You can read more about the process here or watch my YouTube channel where I’m chronicling my experience harvesting, processing, and selling hickory nuts.

 I have fallen in with the Keystone Tree Crop Cooperative. We are now incorporated as a For-profit Agricultural Cooperative. As of July 2024 we have our press up and running and have pressed some hickory nut oil. Keep your eyes peeled for updates on how to purchase some hickory nut oil. We should have a few batches for sale throughout 2025.

We’re gearing up for 2024 season. We’ll likely be on the lookout to purchase bitternut (yellowbud) hickory nuts. That’s right. You may be able to make money from your wasted bitternut hickory nuts.

 The bitternut is typically a wasted nut because it’s, as you may have guessed, very bitter. When you press a bitternut, the bitterness stays with the nut, and you’re left with a delicious buttery oil.

Unfortunately, I don’t sell shelled hickory nuts at this time. I really wish I did! As you probably know, it is work to shell hickory nuts. There’s just no way around it. I deal with hundreds of pounds of hickory nuts every season. It just isn’t cost-effective for me to shell the nuts. I think the tedious shelling process is one of the main reasons we haven’t seen them in the grocery store. Well, I’ve eaten a whole lot of hickory nuts, and I’m learning the most efficient ways to process them. Right now, for shagbarks, it’s the Texan York Nut Sheller.

One of my main goals with this business is to figure out a way to mechanize the hickory nut shelling process. I’ll channel my inner Buckminster Fuller and try to invent something. I’ll report back to you soon. If you see hickory nuts in the grocery store, then just know that I did it!

FAQ

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Ben loves hickory nuts!

• They taste amazing, sort of like a maple flavored Pecan (hickory nuts and pecans are in the same genera).
• The nuts are high in magnesium and iron.
• Shellbarks prefer being near water.
• They are particular about where they grow (limestone).
• The trees take up 25 years before they fruit.
• The window of harvest is short (a few weeks)
• They are not commercially available.
• Harvest is manual and time-consuming.
• Processing is manual and even more time-consuming.
• You have to beat the squirrels, who are racing the chipmunks!