LANESBORO — Frank Wright of Lanesboro is a forager. Not unlike a squirrel, he goes from yard to yard in search of black walnuts, bringing his harvest home in five gallon buckets, removing their hulls, ...

For a hungry small boy to crack one walnut, or even a dozen, is no problem. But cracking walnuts in hundreds of thousands is what the California Walnut Growers’ Association does, and it wanted a ...