Hazel Heart Farms

12/15/2025

Hello! Tomorrow (12/16) is the last day to order to guarantee delivery by Christmas! Gift the best nuts in town!
https://www.americanhazelnutcompany.com/store/c1/shop

11/30/2025

A quick hello on this Small Business Saturday (woo!)!

If you have loved ones on your shopping list who know food gifts = best gifts, we've got quite the catalog this year featuring the best of the Midwest:
https://www.americanhazelnutcompany.com/store/c1/

Oh! And free shipping over $60.

11/12/2025

We need to share this outstanding tart recipe ahead of Thanksgiving!

With 10,000 five-star reviews, this dessert is one of the New York Times' most popular recipes of all time.

It's an exciting one, not just because of the hazelnut crust, but because the hazelnuts are paired with another native Midwest food (and Wisconsin's official state fruit): cranberries.

Recipe Here: https://www.americanhazelnutcompany.com/cranberrytart

The recipe calls for rice flour, but we conducted a test to try out some local flour options instead. See how each turned out in last month's newsletter: https://us5.campaign-archive.com?u=d354d0b08926bc9e42718b761&id=626e6ffc38

10/24/2025

Sharing a neat opportunity to spend a day on a Minnesota hazelnut farm, learning how and why to grow hazelnuts and creating art with the beautiful hazel wood.

We still have a handful of wonderful classes coming up this fall, including an introduction to an up-and-coming perennial food crop in the Upper Midwest: Hazelnuts! Join Paul Mairet of Nine Hazels Farm on Saturday, November 15 to learn all about this versatile, productive, and ecologically restorative shrub. Plus, the class includes a crafting component using the flexible coppiced hazel branches to create a wreath or other item. Register now if you're interested in joining us.
https://w-e-i.org/event/hazel/

10/01/2025

It's Wecipe Wednesday! Last month, I tested four different apple hazelnut desserts and found two absolutely scrumptious cumbles.

For the apple filling, I had a clear favorite between the two: half sour apples, half sweet, yes to lemon, light on the sugar and cinnamon.

For the toppings I truly couldn't pick, so I combined them into one mighty dish with two halves and bang I think I'll just keep making it like this!

The bottom half: Crispy, oaty, a little chewy, gluten free
The top: Sweet, fluffy, buttery, a bit cakey

Pick the topping that sounds best to you (you can't go wrong), or try the double up method! Recipe here: www.americanhazelnutcompany.com/applecrumble

09/24/2025

See you at FEAST!

07/08/2025

I made the same dressing twice, once with olive oil and once with hazelnut oil. Can you spot the difference?

After a couple of days in the fridge, the hazelnut oil dressing stayed liquid, and the olive oil dressing solidified.

Why does this happen?

Hazelnut oil is primarily composed of heart-healthy, omega-9 fatty acids, with half the saturated fat of olive oil. Saturated fat hardens at higher temperatures (think butter at room temp), causing the olive oil dressing to solidify in the fridge.

Hazelnut oil
💚 Easy dinner party prep
💚 Rich, nutty flavor
💚 Heart-healthy composition

Hazel Maple Vinaigrette: americanhazelnutcompany.com/hazelnutdressing
Hazelnut Oil: americanhazelnutcompany.com/store/p16/oil

07/02/2025

July Hazelnut farm update: It will still be a couple months before the nuts are fully formed and ready to harvest, but the clusters are forming beautifully on Mike's Minnesota hazelnut farm.

06/26/2025

On a mission to munch in the most beautiful places in the Midwest!

This week: a trip to Wisconsin's oldest state park (and Minnesota's second oldest state park), aptly named Interstate Park.

We're connecting to nature through our food too: snacking on sweet + salty Midwest Munch, full of local ingredients that are native to the Midwest like hazelnuts, elderberries, and maple

05/23/2025

A little behind the scenes for you! We made trays on trays of Midwest Munch last week and already it’s sold out!! We’re so so grateful for all the excitement behind our new hazelnut snack. We’re quickly whipping up new batches so keep the orders coming! 💚🤎

https://americanhazelnutcompany.com/midwestmunch

05/19/2025

Had a BLAST dropping off Midwest Munch at the gift shop for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Seeing different flowers and trees bloom is a beautiful and fun way to connect to the season! It is definitely worth a stop, and be sure to scoop up some Midwest Munch while you're there.

05/19/2025

Protein sources and their climate impact. Nuts land on top! Especially if they're grown on small, regenerative farms like ours

If you want to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet, less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat.

Read more in the article by Hannah Ritchie: https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat