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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE – Good news for pine nut lovers. Not so good for allergy sufferers. A five-year inventory of New Mexico’s forested lands shows positive growth rates among the state’s most important piñon ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Collecting pinon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic families in the southwestern U.S. for generations. But environmentalists are concerned that without the ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. A nasal, laughing bird call echoed through the Ortiz Mountains in northern New Mexico this September. A couple of pinyon jays chattered loudly as they ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – It’s hard to celebrate the holidays in New Mexico without a little piñon. “It’s what you do every year. You get together from wherever it is you live, and you go piñon picking,” ...

ALBUQUERQUE – Collecting piñon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic families in the Southwest for generations. But environmentalists are concerned that without the pinyon jay – a ...