Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

“Planting nuts requires a vision for a future that goes beyond one’s mortal reach.” — Bernd Heinrich from "The Trees in My Forest" Last fall I was presented with a gift of two 1-gallon plastic bags of ...

Watch an oak tree growing from an acorn to a young plant over 133 days in this time-lapse. We picked white oak because it can be germinated immediately without a need for cold-stratification like red ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of ...

DE SOTO, Wis. (REPORT FOR AMERICA) – Jerry Boardman doesn’t remember exactly when he started collecting acorns in the fall. But the thousands upon thousands of them he gathers to share with people ...

Oaks are not just another tree. Entomologist, professor, and best-selling author, Doug Tallamy writes in his latest book, “The Nature of Oaks,” that “oaks support more life forms and more fascinating ...

Question: Yesterday I read that “oaks are a keystone species”. What exactly does that mean? Answer: A keystone species is a plant, animal or microorganism that is vitally important to its environment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images There’s a reason it’s called the Mighty Oak: Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds (yes, hundreds!) ...

Acorns gathered by De Soto, Wisc. resident Jerry Boardman are planted near McGregor Lake, a river backwater near Prairie du Chien. Boardman collects tens of thousands of acorns per year to give to the ...