Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Diane Howe sat under the piñon pines in the Chuska Mountains while she and her family picked piñon nuts that the tree graciously ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – It’s hard to celebrate the holidays in New Mexico without a little piñon. “It’s what you do every year. You get together from wherever it is you live, and you go piñon picking,” ...

Albuquerque law enforcement officials are preparing to assist with issues that come with pinon picking season. The Albuquerque Journal reports that the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office is telling ...

Sep. 19—Tlahuicole Morales Cortes was far up a piñon tree as a pack of people stooped over below him on the slopes of the rocky landscape northeast of Santa Fe, their heads lowered and eyes trained ...

PECOS, N.M. — Mark Quintana gestures into the shady thicket of pine trees. His sons are in there somewhere, he says, along with a few of his cousins. Theirs is a familiar fall scene in Northern New ...

PECOS, N.M. (AP) – Mark Quintana gestures into the shady thicket of pine trees. His sons are in there somewhere, he says, along with a few of his cousins. Theirs is a familiar fall scene in northern ...

For Navajo families like mine in Northwest New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, piñon picking is more than a seasonal tradition. The small, nutrient-rich nuts are a cultural delicacy, used in traditional ...