Sunday, November 16 from 11am - 6pm

@ Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook, NY

Showcasing the resilience and diversity of local Northeastern nuts while uniting producers, foragers, and community in celebration!

Nut cracking, delicious nut products, & roasted chestnuts
Games & fun for all ages
Screen printing & walnut dyeing
Talk on the importance of nuts to Northeastern Native Peoples w/ Justin Wexler
Acorn processing & hide tanning workshop w/ Mark Ressl
Chestnut flour cooking demo w/ Chef Renee Baumann
Local vendors, growers, and educators

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Most sincere thanks to our sponsors for this year!

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This year, we are so pleased and honored to be hosting “Furrow”, a seed engraving project by Sergey Jivetin @sjivetin. This project highlights and celebrates the wondrous stories of plant seeds and seed-savers, and memorializes these narr

We are so pleased to announce that at this year’s Hudson Valley Nut Fest, Justin Wexler of @wild_hudson_valley will be doing a presentation on “Northeastern Native Peoples and Nut Bearing Trees”.

The abundance of oaks, hickories,

There is no one we know who has processed more acorns for flour than our dear friend Mark Ressl. Mark also uses the acorn tannins to process deer hides some of which he uses to make beautiful drums. We are so excited that Mark will be leading an acor

Harvested amazing black walnuts with amazing friends. Here we are processing for the nuts and the hulls which can be used for natural dying. We like to choose trees with hulls that are easy to peel by hand. At Nut Fest, our friend Lou-Marie will be r

Caught this chestnut weevil in the act at the Sleeping Giant chestnut orchard a couple weeks ago. Think we have a shot of making it onto #weevilwednesday ?

Although incredibly cute, weevils can be a big challenge for chestnut farmers. Connect with

Thank you @carrsciderhouse for an awesome day of chestnut harvesting! These trees were planted in 2018 and are doing beautifully despite the drought this year. Might have something to do with the fact that they’re grazed by @meadowfedlamb! And

Nut culture in the US has had a long history of independent research, breeding, and tree preservation. At the Lockwood and Sleeping Giant orchards in CT, Sandra Anagnostakis’s (belovedly known as Dr. Sandy in the community) conducted research o

We are incredibly pleased to announce that after a one year hiatus, Nut Fest is back stronger than ever! This year will be the 4TH (almost)ANNUAL HUDSON VALLEY NUT FEST! There will be basket of nuts, an array of fascinating nut crackers, vendors sell

Reverence 🌀🪾

Pic 1: old white oak- Hudson Valley, NY

Pic 2: hickory graft union- Hudson Valley, NY

Pic 3: ancient chestnut- Piedmont, Italia

Pic 4: inside of an ancient chestnut- Saône-et-Loire, France

Pic 5: activated latent buds of

At Nut Fest, our goal is to help preserve the old and bring forth the new. One of our favorite parts of the festival is the cultivar table where we like to feature historic nut cultivars preserved by plant breeders, tree explorers, and orchardists. T