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 ...

Albuquerque law enforcement officials are preparing to assist with issues that come with pinon picking season. The Albuquerque Journal reports that the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office is telling ...

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,” ...

PECOS, N.M. — Mark Quintana gestures into the shady thicket of pine trees. His sons are in there somewhere, he says, along with a few of his cousins. Theirs is a familiar fall scene in Northern New ...

For Navajo families like mine in Northwest New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, piñon picking is more than a seasonal tradition. The small, nutrient-rich nuts are a cultural delicacy, used in traditional ...

PECOS, N.M. (AP) – Mark Quintana gestures into the shady thicket of pine trees. His sons are in there somewhere, he says, along with a few of his cousins. Theirs is a familiar fall scene in northern ...

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 ...

The harvest of the expensive pine nut happens only about once every five years. Reporter Beth Hoffman spends a day with a Navajo storyteller and pine nut harvester in Utah. This is DAY TO DAY. I'm ...

PECOS, N.M. (AP) - Mark Quintana gestures into the shady thicket of pine trees. His sons are in there somewhere, he says, along with a few of his cousins. Theirs is a familiar fall scene in northern ...