Hunt’s Hazelnuts

Specialties

Find Us at The Salem Public Market

Our products are available year round, indoors at

Salem Public Market

1240 Rural Avenue SE, Salem

Every Saturday 8:00−2:00

1 – 5 Exit 253 (Highway 221Mission Street) — West

to 12^th Street — South on 12^th to Rural Avenue

History

Established in 1986.

Bruce Hunt of Hunt’s Hazelnuts in Gervais, Ore., said he initially was disappointed when he was turned down for an apprenticeship at a foundry. Today, he said: «As far as I am concerned, in my working career, the best thing that ever happened was not getting that apprenticeship.“Bruce-Hunt-Capital-Press

Gervais, Ore. — Looking back, it was the job he didn’t get that set up his career in farming.

Bruce Hunt of Hunt’s Hazelnuts in Gervais, Ore., said he initially was disappointed when he was turned down for an apprenticeship at a foundry. Today, he said: «As far as I am concerned, in my working career, the best thing that ever happened was not getting that apprenticeship.»

A couple of things happened afterward that set him on his way to his current position as owner and operator of a successful value-​added hazelnut operation.