Almond trees are native to North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. They thrive in warm and sunny environments and typically grow best from US hardiness zone 7 to zone 9 .

USDA-NASS California Almond Objective Measurement Report estimated that the state's almond harvest will reach 3 billion ...

Native to the Mediterranean where almond trees grew wild, almonds were later cultivated by local people as long ago as 3000 BC, according to Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In California’s Central Valley, long rows of trees stretch across fertile soil where agriculture thrives. One family farm has ...