Local nut processor Treehouse California Almonds is working with a Monterey County-based company called Sitos Group to build a $9 million pyrolysis plant at an existing hulling and shelling plant ...

Is it a fruit or a nut? Unsalted or seasoned ... This machine separates the almonds in the shell from the hull. Hulls are rich in protein so they are not discarded, instead they are sold as ...

Hopes that Kern County almond byproducts will one day be converted into biochar — and with it, marketable energy and valuable carbon-removal credits — may finally be realized by a project planned to ...