Harvesting Pinon Nuts

• 1). Find a legally accessible pinon tree during late summer to late autumn.
  
  
• 2). Locate cones just beginning to open.
  
  
• 3). Remove cones from the tree using pruning hook.
  
  
• 4). Place cones in basket.
  
  
• 5). Collect any loose pine nuts that have already fallen to the ground from open cones.
  
  
• 6). When home place unopened cone in heat, either near a charcoal fire or in an oven set to 225 degrees. Wait for cone petals to open.
  
  
• 7). Empty nuts from open cones. Add to loose nuts in paper bags.
  
  
• 8). Clean pine pitch from hands and tools using orange oil cleaning product.