Pine Nuts a valuable commodity
We just toured some pinon pine forests in Central California. Here's some info we found out about the pine nut:
"Given the past management practices, today pinyon pines cover only about 10% of their original range (www.pinenut.com 2003). As harvesting pine nuts is a sustainable alternative to using lands for grazing, ..." Click here for more
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Farm Girl, I am the Pinon Penny. Thank you for posting the info on pine nuts. Here is a tad more:
Prior to World War II and organized deforestation of the region, the United States had a substantial and well established domestic pine nut industry. These forests produced 8 million pounds of commercially distributed pine nuts in 1936. The nuts sustained both man and beast for more than 10,000 years.In addition to the economical and environmental human values, pinyon pine nuts form the backbone of the regions ecology providing a primary winter and fall food resource, high in calories and fats for big game, regional mammals and rodents, and birds, both migrating and residing in the region. Trees shade the earth, lower carbon, help water cycles and clean the water shed. As global warming moves from theory to established reality, it makes little to NO sense to continue these pattern of destruction.
Purposeful deforestation is accelerating. Any number of tax payer funded programs, from wild life improvement, to fuels reduction, weed control, watershed improvement are deforesting the west. The pinyon forests are under siege. Regional land planners continue to "treat" the pinyon forests to a multitude of deforestation practices, which while "well intended" have they themselves continue created un-precedented environmental change without grasping the long term implications of regional deforesting based in part upon corrupted science.
FIND 1 thing that needs to be done and make that your life's work.
Thank you.
I found a wholesaler online for Pinon pine nuts - www.pinonnuts.com
half the price of pinon penny
I think Penny thinks pinon nuts are a valuable commidity - her prices are too high! - makes me want to import the same varieties she sells - dollar a pound says anyone can copy her - and she included the types - HELLO ALIBABBA!
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