I have black walnuts everywhere. I made tincture's last year, but I didn't know how beneficial an oil or ointment could be, or that you can infuse them into an oil for ointment making. Thank you for sharing this information. I'm disabled older and attempt to survive on SSI. That's almost impossible, therefore I can't afford any classes on herbalism and foraging, or any books on the subject. So I really appreciate you herbalist that share these things with us poor people. Bless you. 🙌 I wish I could figure out a way to make a living on all these black walnuts, but it's just too much on my body to do such hard work as it is to clean, cure and shell these. I'm not lazy, just old and crippled. I used to work very hard and I still over do it on good day's even knowing I'm going to pay dearly for it. Lol I pray that more people will wake up and see what's growing around them, learn everything they can about what's eatable, and how it can keep them and their children alive and healthy when everything goes crashing down. It's going to happen. Actually it's already happening. Look at the price of food and how difficult it's getting to find things they used to see everywhere. America isn't the only country experiencing this either. It has been planned and is now unleashed upon the entire world. Just read the Bible if you doubt it. The Bible is the best history book ever written, if you don't like it, it's at least the most amazing history book if nothing else!
Thank you for your comment! If you like, I've written a book called Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair that is rather inexpensive and can be purchased for a few dollars (used copies). In it I share how to make herbal infused oils, including black walnut. Perhaps you'd like to check it. Be well!
I’m really enjoying your channel. Baby powder in your gloves will let you slip the gloves on easily. We also had black walnut , beautiful but also a nuisance because so many things won’t grow under it due to the jugalone. When our kids were small they would collect them and sell them at the local Mennonite store. They call them English walnuts. We opened them by driving over them - I never knew about making medicine from the hill. Fascinating!
My husband and I just bought a house and there was a huge tree on the property that I thought was dead and wanted to cut it down in the winter. I saw that it started to grow leaves and it was very pretty and later realized it had some green fruit on it. We did some research and learned its a black walnut tree! We have 3 on our property but only one has the fruit. We are now picking up the black walnuts and are planning to save the nuts! Im glad to learn its very good medicinally to use the hulls as well. Im starting to get a better appreciation for herbal medicine and am excited to learn more! Thank you for your video!
Dina, I have GREATLY enjoyed listening to your UA-cam channel and ALL of the wonderful pieces of life-sustaining knowledge that you so willingly offer to the inhabitants of this now dismal and un-grounded world. It is truly a blessing to have individuals such as yourself grace us with your wisdom! This info could help help a life someday. Keep it up!
Thank you for sharing this video. It has been helpful to me. And helpful in reconnecting with my Native American Heritage. Back then at the age of 12 a child would have already known to identify helpful medicinal trees and herbs and food staples in the wild. I'm catching up. Thank you. 🙏 I have just become your newest subscriber.
Dina ... i know i have said it few times already ( and oh do i love your book. SO beautiful and useful ! ) But .. your videos are so amazing. You are intense, you give tons of details and show them all on camera also. You are a natural teacher. really. Love love love your presentations. ALL. That said.. do you have students who can go and learn to ID with you ? like for few days - weeks .. (asking for a friend hahahahahaha... you know it's for me ! )
I appreciate your positive feedback. Thank you!! Right now no in person class happening. If you aren't already, you can join my newsletter to receive emails, which is how I'll let folks know about in-person events, as well as other weekly updates. www.inthewild.kitchen/newsletter
@@DinaFalconi I already get it :) In person, you certainly must bring the interest so high ... Your intensity is very appreciated. THANK YOU for all your wonderful videos. And continue to show all the plants parts. AMAZING !
Just harvested some from my front yard and searched for this. Thank you so much for your rich wisdom! Excited to get rid of my ringworm that just came back after many years. Our family also lived in mold for years, but thankfully was able to move from there. I know this medicine will be deeply healing for us all. 💗🌿
I have a very old black walnut and a few younger ones in my back yard. I germinate and grow the trees from time to time. They are very strong nuts. I have germinated and grown a 2 year old batch of husked nuts before.
Thank you for this! Your videos have been very helpful to me. Do you use the black walnut leaves for anything? Some people mention them briefly as being used but i can't find any information on actually using them
I usually gather them fresh. Although, I love Healing Spirits Herb company and they sell them dried: www.healingspiritsherbfarm.com/product-page/black-walnut-hulls-dried
This is a timely video. Gathered a lot of them last week but they turned black before I could harvest the medicine from it. On a different note, you wear your beautiful hair gathered up on the top of your head. Would you consider doing a video with your hair down? Just curious!
@@DinaFalconi That's a neutral response. I don't think I commented on FB or Instagram. Now you have at least two people who are wondering if you will let down your hair.
Dear Dina, I've enjoyed and learned so much from your course Wild Food Health Boosters & Herbal Remedies. I have this poor Black Walnut that is just hanging on, so I have tried to plant the walnut seeds to no avail. Do you have any tips. Thank you, Julie
Hello Julie, thanks for your comment and for appreciating my work! We have so many wild black walnuts in our area that I have not needed to cultivate them, so no info on this front. I suggest checking out this site: hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2008/8-27/walnuts.html and others like it.
Michigan here and so very grateful for all of your useful and friendly videos of very familiar nature. We have black Walnut trees and love to make tinctures from the dried leaves. Wasn't sure how to approach the nut and hull. Thank you fur all of these many uses and ways to preserve both. Do you know if the nut is still edible after the hull is dried?
Thank you for viewing and appreciating! What do you do with the black walnut leaf tincture? Yes, the nut is still edible after the hull is dried. Cheers!
It's actually for a woodland bitters recipe my partner has created for @the elixir house. Mostly for the woody, earthy, nutty flavor. Thank you for the insight on the dried hull and safe to eat nut. I collected so many last fall and want sure why. 😉 I'll give it a try.
Thanks for your comment. Yes, as you say, black walnut hulls are used to get of parasites. I don't personally use them that way, but know of folks who have.
You must age a black walnut before you eat it for the taste they have to age usually around Christmas is when they're good to eat I grew up on them and they got a wonderful taste when they're aged they don't taste good fresh
Ivory soap? To me, they smell like a high end men's cologne... Mmmm 😊 We have a lot of Black Walnuts in our yard and need to hold our hands and arms over our head when walking under the trees when they are dropping walnuts! Those large nut rollers cage things/ pick 'em ups come in handy, too.
I am amazed at how the squirrels get those hard nuts cracked (they do have all winter to tackle them... 😅 ) Usually we leave big piles of the green/brown walnuts in the hull for the squirrels around bushes and trees ( kinda of a one stop shopping spot for them...) and in the spring there are lots of piles of shelled pieces around tree bases that were shoved out of their nests from their spring cleaning. Fun to watch. 😊 I make tinctures with the green hulls and also use the leaves (not together) both in 100 proof vodka. Great idea to make an infused oil for a salve! 💕
@@nancywolf3786 Different herbalists will say different things... but I take it by only a few drops in a liquid. Depends on how long you want to take it... I would look up 'parasite cleanses' and pick one. (I think I did a Hulda Clark parasite cleanse at first using my own tincture... but no 'nasty things' came out, lol)
What could be more grounding, than listening to tree hugging, nature loving, Dina, sharing her herbal knowledge with her meditative voice?!
Thanks, Soo, for sharing your appreciative words! So glad.
I have black walnuts everywhere. I made tincture's last year, but I didn't know how beneficial an oil or ointment could be, or that you can infuse them into an oil for ointment making. Thank you for sharing this information. I'm disabled older and attempt to survive on SSI. That's almost impossible, therefore I can't afford any classes on herbalism and foraging, or any books on the subject. So I really appreciate you herbalist that share these things with us poor people. Bless you. 🙌 I wish I could figure out a way to make a living on all these black walnuts, but it's just too much on my body to do such hard work as it is to clean, cure and shell these. I'm not lazy, just old and crippled. I used to work very hard and I still over do it on good day's even knowing I'm going to pay dearly for it. Lol I pray that more people will wake up and see what's growing around them, learn everything they can about what's eatable, and how it can keep them and their children alive and healthy when everything goes crashing down. It's going to happen. Actually it's already happening. Look at the price of food and how difficult it's getting to find things they used to see everywhere. America isn't the only country experiencing this either. It has been planned and is now unleashed upon the entire world. Just read the Bible if you doubt it. The Bible is the best history book ever written, if you don't like it, it's at least the most amazing history book if nothing else!
Thank you for your comment! If you like, I've written a book called Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair that is rather inexpensive and can be purchased for a few dollars (used copies). In it I share how to make herbal infused oils, including black walnut. Perhaps you'd like to check it. Be well!
@@DinaFalconi Do you sell the oil online?
I’m really enjoying your channel. Baby powder in your gloves will let you slip the gloves on easily. We also had black walnut , beautiful but also a nuisance because so many things won’t grow under it due to the jugalone. When our kids were small they would collect them and sell them at the local Mennonite store. They call them English walnuts. We opened them by driving over them - I never knew about making medicine from the hill. Fascinating!
Thanks for the comment!
My husband and I just bought a house and there was a huge tree on the property that I thought was dead and wanted to cut it down in the winter. I saw that it started to grow leaves and it was very pretty and later realized it had some green fruit on it. We did some research and learned its a black walnut tree! We have 3 on our property but only one has the fruit. We are now picking up the black walnuts and are planning to save the nuts! Im glad to learn its very good medicinally to use the hulls as well. Im starting to get a better appreciation for herbal medicine and am excited to learn more!
Thank you for your video!
Thanks for your comment. Enjoy your black walnut trees. Please enjoy the videos on the channel; hope they enrich your herbal and foraging journey.
Dina,
I have GREATLY enjoyed listening to your UA-cam channel and ALL of the wonderful pieces of life-sustaining knowledge that you so willingly offer to the inhabitants of this now dismal and un-grounded world. It is truly a blessing to have individuals such as yourself grace us with your wisdom! This info could help help a life someday. Keep it up!
Thank you so much, Megan! I really appreciate the feedback. Be well, Dina
Thank you for sharing your passion with us, and taking the time to educate. Guidance and Blessings to you. Cheers.
Thank you for watching and appreciating. Happy foraging!
Love this video. Thank you for your information
Thank you, Shelia, for appreciating the video! Happy foraging.
Thank you! Great ID. I am trying to learn trees and this was very helpful!
So glad!!!
Thank you for sharing this video. It has been helpful to me. And helpful in reconnecting with my Native American Heritage. Back then at the age of 12 a child would have already known to identify helpful medicinal trees and herbs and food staples in the wild. I'm catching up. Thank you. 🙏
I have just become your newest subscriber.
Thank you, Aleje, for your comment. So glad! Enjoy the videos. Be well.
Dina ... i know i have said it few times already ( and oh do i love your book. SO beautiful and useful ! ) But .. your videos are so amazing. You are intense, you give tons of details and show them all on camera also. You are a natural teacher. really. Love love love your presentations. ALL.
That said.. do you have students who can go and learn to ID with you ? like for few days - weeks .. (asking for a friend hahahahahaha... you know it's for me ! )
I appreciate your positive feedback. Thank you!! Right now no in person class happening. If you aren't already, you can join my newsletter to receive emails, which is how I'll let folks know about in-person events, as well as other weekly updates. www.inthewild.kitchen/newsletter
@@DinaFalconi I already get it :) In person, you certainly must bring the interest so high ... Your intensity is very appreciated. THANK YOU for all your wonderful videos. And continue to show all the plants parts. AMAZING !
Thanks.
Oh Dina I love you... your energy is so warming. Thanks for your gifts of wisdom.
Thanks! Glad you are appreciating the videos.
Awesome video! As Sherry said already very timely too! Grateful for you!
Thank you, Marc! Always good to get your feedback.
wonder presentation ! you have a magical voice ! i have learned a lot from you !
Thank you for watching, learning and appreciating.
Just harvested some from my front yard and searched for this. Thank you so much for your rich wisdom! Excited to get rid of my ringworm that just came back after many years. Our family also lived in mold for years, but thankfully was able to move from there. I know this medicine will be deeply healing for us all. 💗🌿
Thank you, Botanical Becca, for your comment.
@@DinaFalconi Anytime! Thank you for your knowledge and beauty. 💗
Thank you. Just found your channel.
Welcome, enjoy the videos!
How I found it is because I was researching black walnut for my fungus and pin worm issues. And it took me to you. Glad it did.
I have a very old black walnut and a few younger ones in my back yard. I germinate and grow the trees from time to time. They are very strong nuts. I have germinated and grown a 2 year old batch of husked nuts before.
Nice!!
Thank you
Welcome, enjoy the channel!
Very helpful, thank you
Regina, thank you for your comment. Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos on the channel.
Very interesting. I will pay closer attention to who has this tree. I'm still not sure I want one in my yard.
Thanks, @Maddy_might, for your comment. Yes, finding one in the neighborhood makes sense.
Thank you for this! Your videos have been very helpful to me. Do you use the black walnut leaves for anything? Some people mention them briefly as being used but i can't find any information on actually using them
Thanks, glad you are appreciating the videos. I don't use the leaves for anything.
Interesting
Thanks.
Where can I buy the green hulls ?
I usually gather them fresh. Although, I love Healing Spirits Herb company and they sell them dried: www.healingspiritsherbfarm.com/product-page/black-walnut-hulls-dried
This is a timely video. Gathered a lot of them last week but they turned black before I could harvest the medicine from it. On a different note, you wear your beautiful hair gathered up on the top of your head. Would you consider doing a video with your hair down? Just curious!
Thanks for your comment. Ha, about my hair, did you ask about my hair on Facebook or Instagram? The same comment came in a while back.
@@DinaFalconi That's a neutral response. I don't think I commented on FB or Instagram. Now you have at least two people who are wondering if you will let down your hair.
What type of tool is she using for hulling these nuts?
Thanks, I'm using a paring knife for cutting off the green hull.
I enjoyed this video. Thank you! How long do you let the hull infuse in the oil before it is ready?
I usually let oil steep for at 10 days in a vented heated vessel.
Dear Dina, I've enjoyed and learned so much from your course Wild Food Health Boosters & Herbal Remedies. I have this poor Black Walnut that is just hanging on, so I have tried to plant the walnut seeds to no avail. Do you have any tips. Thank you, Julie
Hello Julie, thanks for your comment and for appreciating my work! We have so many wild black walnuts in our area that I have not needed to cultivate them, so no info on this front. I suggest checking out this site: hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2008/8-27/walnuts.html and others like it.
Michigan here and so very grateful for all of your useful and friendly videos of very familiar nature. We have black Walnut trees and love to make tinctures from the dried leaves. Wasn't sure how to approach the nut and hull. Thank you fur all of these many uses and ways to preserve both. Do you know if the nut is still edible after the hull is dried?
Thank you for viewing and appreciating! What do you do with the black walnut leaf tincture? Yes, the nut is still edible after the hull is dried. Cheers!
It's actually for a woodland bitters recipe my partner has created for @the elixir house. Mostly for the woody, earthy, nutty flavor. Thank you for the insight on the dried hull and safe to eat nut. I collected so many last fall and want sure why. 😉 I'll give it a try.
Nice: woodland bitters!
Black walnut hulls have been used traditionally to rid parasites as well. Do you do that?
Thanks for your comment. Yes, as you say, black walnut hulls are used to get of parasites. I don't personally use them that way, but know of folks who have.
Hello what affect does drinking a tea of black walnut leaf tea do? Does it have a laxetive affect?
Thanks for your comment. I don't use the leaf, so can't say personally. Let us know what you learn.
Can u do a video on make the hull solution for fungal infection
Thanks for asking. Right now you can find that recipe in my book Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair book.
I have made the mistake of doing with out gloves my hands were stained for weeks
Ouch, yes, done the same years ago.
You must age a black walnut before you eat it for the taste they have to age usually around Christmas is when they're good to eat I grew up on them and they got a wonderful taste when they're aged they don't taste good fresh
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Why wouldn't use just tincture the entire nut? That's how I was taught. No mess.
Interesting idea... who taught you that? What do you use your tincture for?
That tree is older than 30 or 40 years old.
Thanks for your comment. How old do you think it is?
Just a litter dab of cornstarch on your fingers will make slip right on and you won't have to do the 0J Simpson.
Thanks, but not sure what you are saying......
The scent reminds me of IVORY SOAP.
Ha, interesting. They do smell cleansing.
Ivory soap? To me, they smell like a high end men's cologne... Mmmm 😊 We have a lot of Black Walnuts in our yard and need to hold our hands and arms over our head when walking under the trees when they are dropping walnuts! Those large nut rollers cage things/ pick 'em ups come in handy, too.
I think the green stain on your gloves is natural iodine from the Walnut
Thanks!
I am amazed at how the squirrels get those hard nuts cracked (they do have all winter to tackle them... 😅 ) Usually we leave big piles of the green/brown walnuts in the hull for the squirrels around bushes and trees ( kinda of a one stop shopping spot for them...) and in the spring there are lots of piles of shelled pieces around tree bases that were shoved out of their nests from their spring cleaning. Fun to watch. 😊 I make tinctures with the green hulls and also use the leaves (not together) both in 100 proof vodka. Great idea to make an infused oil for a salve! 💕
Thank you for your comment!
how much of the tincture do you use and for how long for a parasite cleanse?
@@nancywolf3786 Different herbalists will say different things... but I take it by only a few drops in a liquid. Depends on how long you want to take it... I would look up 'parasite cleanses' and pick one. (I think I did a Hulda Clark parasite cleanse at first using my own tincture... but no 'nasty things' came out, lol)
These nuts lol
Ha, yes!