Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person harvesting peanuts from garden No, peanuts don’t grow on trees, nor are there peanut bushes. Once called goober peas, ...

Because it takes a lot of peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter, commercial peanuts are grown on hundreds of acres at a time. There's also tremendous value in growing a few peanut plants of your own.

Whatever you call your harvest — peanuts, ground nuts, goober peas — this crop is fun to grow, and it rounds out your pantry staples nicely by adding snacks and the base for fresh-ground nut butter.

SUFFOLK, Va. - At the oldest peanut-shelling plant in the United States, the past is meeting the future. George Birdsong, the third generation in his family to run Birdsong Peanuts, is surrounded by ...