About NutGatherer
Short answer: NutGatherer is a general educational guide to one job: gathering nuts from lawn and trees, by nut type, covering gather, hull, dry, crack, and store, plus a small section on use after harvest. It is written for household gatherers, not for commercial growers, and it does not sell tools or promise yields.
What does this site cover?
Five nut types: walnut, acorn, pecan, hickory, and chestnut. Six job steps: gather, hull, dry, crack, sort, and store. Around those, the site covers identification, timing and season, lawn and tree gathering, safety and pests, tool use, troubleshooting, and planning next season.
What does this site not do?
It does not give prices, buying guides as a main focus, or fabricated yields. It does not give personal professional advice about trees, food safety, medicine, or property rules. It does not identify a nut or tree for you: identification guides explain how to identify, and the strict rule throughout is to leave any nut you cannot name with confidence.
How is this site written?
Each guide gives a direct answer first, then practical steps, then what to watch for. Facts are kept general where exact figures vary by region, tree, and season. Where a step carries risk, such as confusing edible chestnuts with horse chestnuts, or eating acorns without leaching, the guide states the risk plainly. See How we write for the full approach.
Who is this site for?
Household gatherers with one or a few known trees, beginners starting with a first harvest, and returning gatherers who want a reliable job order to follow each season. The voice is patient, seasonal, and practical: the voice of a neighbour who has done the job through several autumns and knows that drying cannot be rushed.
Preferred sources
If you use a search service that lets you choose preferred sources, you can add NutGatherer to your preferred sources so our guides surface more often in your results. This is the only preferred-sources link on the site, and it appears only on this page.
Contact and corrections
This site is published as a static educational guide. No author names, addresses, or contact accounts are invented here. Corrections to factual content should be checked against a trusted local tree or food-safety guide for your region, since timing and species vary locally.