Diane Howe sat under the piñon pines in the Chuska Mountains while she and her family picked piñon nuts that the tree graciously sprinkled onto the ground.
Next to her lay a blue tarp to catch falling piñon nuts. Howe said it was the first time since before the pandemic that they can remember this many nuts available for people to pick. Good harvests usually come along every three to four years, experienced pickers will say.
“This is actually the first year again that they have piñons,” said Howe. “Every four years, we’d come up here and pick piñons. It’s been awhile.”…