Cover your head and don't look up! Naturalists say this is a "mast year" in much of the country, when hardwood trees drop an overabundance of nuts. SIMON: Good times for a walk in the woods to ...

Here, the young, unripe nut is especially prized. Plucked off the tree, it looks like a lime ... Food was part of the Kashmiri story and, he argued, essential to it — to keeping the spirit ...

That means trees are dropping more nuts than usual. WESTWOOD: Both our white oaks and our red oaks. We have walnuts. We have hickories. Lots of different types of nut trees are all having a mast year.