Nutty Buddy Collective

12/02/2025

The Holiday Nut Case is back! We have a couple dozen left and we’ll be taking orders for the next week or so. Filled with ‘treets’ made from nuts gathered by many hands on many lands throughout WNC and Appalachia.

Order at AshevilleNuttery.com

11/14/2024

Holiday Nut Cases are now on sale, early bird price until 11/24 and final order deadline is midnight 12/1. These gift boxes will be filled to the brim with locally harvested and processed nutty goodness, including out nut oils, nut kernels, nut oil skin care products, acorn cornbread and pancake mixes, serviceberry jam, nut cookies, and much more. Shipping is available. See our bio link for further details.

11/12/2024

Holiday Nut Case now available!
Note: we're not checking FB, so contact us via our website with questions or to purchase a Holiday Nut Case

11/10/2023

Chestnuts roasting on an enclosed, oxygen-deprived, charcoal-producing fire…
Gonna be roasting NC grown chestnuts on Saturday on the heat from this biochar kiln (made by .hettinger) using black walnut shell as the feedstock.
The event is a harvest festival from 12-6 with classes, hayrides, good food, and a mini mini pony (you read that correctly). I’ll be serving up roasted chestnuts and talking nuts and biochar for a few hours starting around 1. Event page linked in our bio link. Come by!

10/05/2023

This is gonna be so much fun. We've been dreaming for years of doing a tree crop CSA. This fall, as we're pushing to scale up and get all the pieces in place to have a truly viable wild nut biz, the moment has come. And the acorn, black walnut, and hickory crops are looking good this year. We're planning to include some special items in the TreeSA boxes, like acorn oil, acorn flour, hickory milk nuts, and a bunch of other nutty products we're developing to complement the staples of black walnut kernels and oil. And conversations are in the works with local chefs to add some extra specialness through the year.

TreeSA shares are selling quickly (thanks for all the support, y'all!). We have several shares left. Once they sell out, we'll start a waiting list and decide in a few weeks if we have enough of a harvest to open up more shares. Click our bio link to get all the info. If you want in but you're not in the area, we do offer a shipping option.

03/10/2023

GRAFTING WORKSHOPS coming up this weekend (3/12) and on 3/25. See the IG post for more info. Register at https://forvillagers.com/collections/upcoming-events

11/07/2022

Join us! Asheville Nuttery Feedback and Input Forum -

Join us on November 16th at 6:30pm for a discussion about the Asheville Nuttery and help shape our plans for the next phase of our project.

09/14/2022

The news from nutland this fall is that we're taking the season off from processing nuts.

Mostly, anyway. No black walnuts. If you've got acorns, hickories, or other nuts, send us a message and we'll see about working something out.

The Nuttery has been at it 5 years and worked up about 30,000 lbs of nuts into oils, flours, kernels, milk, cream, skin care products, dyes, buttons and more. We've traded processing services for nuts for approximately 150 gatherers in that time. We've shared what we've been learning along the way with many curious squirrelfriends. And we have caught a glimpse of the delicious potential of a forest-based foodway that cherishes trees and their crops.

We're looking now to the very brainy bitternut hickory pictured here to guide us as we rein in the impulse to gather every nut we see, and instead focus on figuring out the long term plan for both the Nuttery and the Nutty Buddy Collective nut orchards. If you've been a part of this project in one way or another, or are interested in getting involved, we'd love to receive your feedback and input as we develop plans for the next phase of this work. We'll be hosting a forum on Oct 26th to hear ideas and feedback. And there's a form linked in the bio with a link to the event details.

10/14/2021

Come black walnutting with us in Fairview this Saturday! 10-2ish, with lunch provided. Nuts are yours for the taking, or you can bring them to the Nuttery. Send a dm for more details and to RSVP.

09/28/2021

Welcoming the 2021 Nut Season! 🌰 -

This season is going to be a bit different from years past, so please read carefully. Our goals for this '21/'22 nut harvest and processing season are to build on and improve our systems, as well as expand the cooperative aspects of our project. Here are the key points: