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walnuts for sure and maybe pecans. Talk to someone at your local greenhouse and they can help you out. Certain walnut trees (black walnuts?) will poison other trees around them (except for other black walnuts)
Chestnuts will grow too- but i dont know how to shell these without cooking them.
maybe hazelnuts - there are so many varieties. Some are hardier than others. They also grow as bush varieties, so easier to maintain and put netting around to keep rodents and birds from eating your harvest. second the recommendation to ask your local nursery.
What about sunflowers? They would yield an immediate crop (no waiting for trees to mature before yielding fruit). I love sunflower seed. I usually sprout, then dehydrate them. Yum!
American Butternut, Hazelnut, and Walnut will grow in Zone 4. Shagbark Hickory also grows in Zone 4, but I have never tried this kind of nut myself.