The first car arrives over two hours before the hulling station officially opens in Jeffersonville, Kentucky. By the time that Renee Zaharie appears and starts the hulling machine, four more vehicles ...

Joe Lenau, 60, puts a bag full of hulled black walnuts on to a scale on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, at Beaufort Ag Supply in Beaufort, Missouri. Lenard Dierking, 60, at left, a worker at the business, ...

BEAUFORT — Mary Jenkins, a former janitor at East Central College, enjoys the freedom of working outside and being her own boss. At 82, she is one of thousands of freelance foragers relied on every ...

Four-year-old Collin Wilkie made sure that every last walnut in the bed of his parents’ pickup was thrown into the hopper that conveyed the walnuts to the hulling machine. “He’s a good helper,” said ...