Almond Living Magazine

Beat the Heat with Almond Summertime Treats

While the summertime temperatures in California’s almond growing region often reach the high nineties and even into the hundreds, almond trees thrive in the warm California sun. Perfectly suited to the state’s Mediterranean climate, California produces over 80 percent of the world’s almonds each year. This California almond community is driven by family farmers and processors. In fact, of California’s...

Can Native Bees Help Pollinate Almonds?

While honey bees have always been the star of the show for almond pollination, we know other pollinators play important roles in our food supply. So as we continue celebrating National Pollinator Week, we’re highlighting a native bee that may someday join in pollinating almonds. Early research suggests that integrating blue orchard bees (BOBs) may improve pollination efficiency, reduce cost...

National Pollinator Week: Celebrating the Humble Honey Bee

National Pollinator Week is here! It is a time to celebrate pollinators, the diverse diets they support, and spread the word about how we can protect them. Without pollinators, like the honey bee, we wouldn’t have almonds. In fact, 35 percent of the world’s food crops rely on pollinators to some degree. From apples and cherries to sunflowers and citrus...

Employee Q&A: Dr. Karen Lapsley, Chief Scientific Officer

In our ABC Q&A series, we bring you brief interviews with some of the minds driving innovation at the Almond Board of California. We speak to a wide variety of folks who work here at the Almond Board, exploring topics from research, to conservation, to favorite almond recipes. Today we talk to Dr. Karen Lapsley, Chief Scientific Officer at the...

Celebrating World Bee Day with Beekeeper Jamie Johnston

Sunday marks the first annual World Bee Day ! The result of a recently adopted UN resolution, May 20 is set aside to “spread awareness of the significance of bees” and lands on the birthday of Anton Janša, a Slovenian teacher of apiculture and pioneer of modern beekeeping. We sat down with fourth-generation beekeeper Jamie Johnston to talk about how...

ATTN: Almond Coproducts Can Help Our Environment

Almond trees grow more than just our favorite nut! They actually provide four valuable products – the almond kernel we eat, shells that protect the nut and are used as livestock bedding, fuzzy outer hulls used as dairy feed, and the tree itself. At the end of their productive lives, almond trees can be ground up to improve soil quality...