Black Walnut Harvesting: From Start to Finish
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- In this video, you will see harvesting, hulling, cleaning, drying, shelling, and roasting of black walnuts...every step from picking them up off the ground to getting them out of the oven.
Getting the hulls off was much easier than I anticipated, and getting the walnut out of the shell wasn't bad at all once I got the hang of it; I kind of enjoyed the challenge! The process takes a lot of work, but it was worth it!
The walnuts had a distinct and interesting walnut flavor, a stronger flavor than walnuts you might buy at the grocery store...but good! My wife just made a batch of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with a bowlful, and they are outstanding.
A few things I forgot in the video:
WEAR GLOVES! These things will stain your hand for weeks! My first batch of walnuts, I had a small hole in my glove and I had to wear a bandaid over that finger for more than a week to hide the discoloration of that one small spot.
Black walnuts trees and nuts contain a chemical called juglone which is toxic to some plants. You might want to do the messy part of the cleaning process at the edge of your yard (not on or around plants that you care about).
It was roughly 2.5 weeks from the time I cleaned the walnuts to the time I cracked them. We had unseasonably warm weather though, so that might be a little faster than usual . Drying the walnuts makes the outer shell brittle and able to be cracked.
I'm sure I have forgotten something in this description. Please post your questions or comments down below. - Навчання та стиль
When I was a kid in the 50s, we had black walnut trees, and had to keep them raked up so they didn't wreck the lawn mower or fly out from under the mower deck and whack someone. We dumped them on the gravel driveway to get the hulls off. Then we cracked them like you did, but we spread them on a canvas tarpaulin on the garage roof to dry. The meats would then shrink a bit and were much easier to remove from the shells. They had a less acrid flavor, too. Mom used to put them in her pumpkin nut bread and in the filling for a gingerbread roll that was made from whipped cream cheese and heavy cream, brown sugar and walnuts. I wish I had that recipe now! We used the dark green hulls to dye wool yarn and wool felt for making mittens and scarves and hats for my brother and Dad. It was a rich coffee brown. Thanks for reminding me of the memories.
Beautiful ❤️
Sounds just like my childhood. Everything you related we did, encluding making stain from the husks. Remember the stains on your fingers. Fun life.
This is the life I want for my boys! What a great memory!
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing those memories.
Eric thank you! There are literally thousands of us out here thanking you for taking the time to make this video! Everything was so clear and efficient; exactly what my little sidekick and I needed to hear today.
I agree with her. First I dodnt even know walnut grew on tree let alone looked like lemons and had to be opened in a certain way oh my God Thankyou❤
A byproduct of this process is to soak the hulls, not the shells, in water for a day or two and pour it sparingly on a patch of grass in the shade and water it in just a little, the worms will come to the surface immediately and you can gather a coffee can full in a few minutes, grab your pole and head to your favorite fishing hole. This has been done for centuries, I learned it from my grandpa and he from his, just throw a couple handfuls of potting soil in the can and store in a cool place, they'll be good for weeks.
My grandmother used the hulls, ground them into a black powder and used it to dye fabrics.
It also kills fungus, the best black walnut are the ones dried for ten years and aged.
Thank you for sharing this my 10-year-old will be thrilled
The green holes get rid of ringworm too.
Good to know!! Where I live all earthworms are invasive, I will put this to good use, thanks
I remember helping my grandmother harvest and crack the black walnuts from her one tree 70 years ago. Our hands would get black from handling them. But, oh! The flavor was heavenly! She kept them in a Mason jar in her pantry, and Woe! to the child who snuck a few out to snack on!! She always knew!!😄 Thanks for the good memory!!
i've been around black walnut trees for half my adult life and have never harvested any. this was the year(october 2020). i did it on the fly one afternoon collecting the bumper crop from the trees around my house after a bad day at work. i cut the husk from these huge seeds and then scrubbed them individually with a metal pot scrubber. oh, yeah . . . i didn't wear gloves. big mistake lol. i'm a black man and my hands were stained blacker and the stain ran up to my wrist. the day after it felt like a minor burn and my skin started to itch and rash with the back of my left hand becoming fairly inflamed. all that said, so worth it. i still have many around the property that are harvestable, so i may rent a pressure washer and give another round a try.
Black walnut was used by colonial Americans to make ink. Im unsure why but sawdust from black walnut tree cannot be used for horse stalls as it will cause them to founder. This may be similar to your itchy skin reaction as a contact dermatitis., though horses might find that harder to tolerate. Someone here mentioned antifungal properties of black walnut as well. Who knew?
The green hull of a black walnut is used as an anti-fungus. My son couldn’t get rid of a parasitic skin rash. I cut the green husk and rubbed it on the rash. He complained of burning stinging pain but the rash was completely gone in a couple of days.
Don’t feel bad, I’ve been there, done that. I have even made black walnut stain from the hulls and it’s better than store bought stain. I dye wool with it too
Use a stainless-steel pan that you will never again use for anything else. This pan is now an exclusive walnut ink pan.
@@FL-yv2uj how do you make a stain with the green part? Or the shell? Do you boil it?
There was a park by us in NJ where we would go and collect black walnuts for my mom. We would clean them differently and fight to get the meat out so she could make black walnut cookies for my dad at Christmastime. It is a nice memory. We did the same with chestnuts there.
You can also make a small slice in the green hull just enough to take some of the "skin" off and rub it on any site of ringworm and it will kill the ringworm!! The hull has loads of natural iodine in it..
Perhaps you know of "Dr. Hulda Clark" she had some interesting ideas
We used to spread the green walnuts across the gravel driveway where they would get run over. After a week, they're husked and mostly clean. Also, any bad walnuts that won't be eaten can be dried and used like charcoal briquettes.
Yup, this is the low tech method and as far as I can tell works just as well. At this point they're pretty dry and can go right into storage where they will last for several months. The only downside is of course squirrels. They do love walnuts.
@snorman1951 Getting the whole separated from the shells I tried to avoid any that were really black in the inside cuz it makes him a mess to clean and also So I tried to All right and then I put the walnuts in separated them into two different buckets here And I tried to get thek rolling boil I'll say where the nuts and then I don't come through this plan for everything professionalk
@snorman1951 pressure wash them again For a couple couple weeks actually maybe two or three weeks they were baking pretty good in the sun there with the black bedliner and there's also little ridges which allow air to get how to crack a coconut
Do not discard the husks. If you put them in boiling water, add a rusty piece of iron, and boil some more - you will create Walnut Ink. It is one of the oldest inks in the world. Black Gall Ink is even older.
The Iron will add a chemical reaction that will blacken the ink.
Then add some alcohol (to stop the natural entropy of the ink).
Then form a pen.
Then write with it.
You will discover that it is fun.
Also, ink (from burning pine and collecting the "smudge" on the bottom of the pan is then collected and a "thickener" is added to make Ink (Honey is used many times).
yeah you get your hands stained when you pick them up
@@blakespower that is why you use the "yellow plastic gloves" and some cheese cloth.
The gloves protect you from the stain in the husks, and the cheese cloth is what you put the husks in (to boil in the water).
Let the water boil. The Internet has times of boiling. It varies. The rusty iron has a chemical reaction that darkens the ink.
If you want a darker ink, let it boil more. Again, check the internet for times of boil.
You will need to add alcohol (to stabilize the ink for long storage). Again, consult more off the Internet or Library for more precise information.
We crack them open in between the door hinge (by swinging back and forth) since childhood as an easy way and still using the same way as we don't have a big harvest. It opens nicely 😁😁😁
Thanks for the video. We have more walnuts here than i can count. I decided that i am going to try and harvest some this year. (especially considering the current times we are living in). They are after all just one of the inumerable free gifts from heaven.
Take care.
One of the things I miss the most about growing up in S MN is walnut harvesting. My Mom loved it and after cracking them open on the basement floor she'd make Walnut chocolate chip cookies!! Even the smell of the walnut hull is amazing!
THANK YOU!!!! I have my grandmother's homemade black walnut cake recipe- now I have to get out there and process them like she did!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!
Thanks for this great little straight to the point video - always appreciate that. It sure makes me value the price of nuts a lot more. We had a walnut tree in our yard when I was growing up in the ‘60s that branched out over our detached garage behind the house. When Dad wasn’t home my brothers and I would climb onto the roof and fill the turned up bottoms of our shirts with the walnuts to use as weapons against the “enemy”, a group of our neighborhood friends advancing down the alley to engage in a pretend game of war. It all came to an abrupt end the day we ran out of walnuts and with the enemy still approaching acted quickly to use the only other available resource, the shingles covering the garage roof. We discovered that they tore easily and sailed through the air like frisbees with a flick of the wrist, leaving nice little welts on arms and legs when they made contact. However, the “General” was not even remotely impressed with our initiative and relegated us to KP for the rest of the summer.
This made me chuckle, I can definitely relate to this story😆🙌🏻
Dad was pissed! Funny.
Did the same thing with green apples!
@@tommymcweedface229 We used to play tug of war on the fallen ones, flinging each other around, like a slip ‘n slide 🤣😅 Those we’re the days!!
Dear Friends of God...................... Please research God's Time/Calendar in Genesis 1:14 before a False Sabbath law is enforced! Actions are in progress to honor a Sabbath day, “Green Sabbath”, “Laudato Si, par. 237”, etc.
Already today, there are Sunday laws written on government books.
The Sabbath Is not Friday, Saturday, Sunday, etc. The true Sabbath is calculated by true time, Genesis 1:14. Dear Friends of God...................... Please research God's Time/Calendar in Genesis 1:14 before a False Sabbath law is enforced! Actions are in progress to honor a Sabbath day, “Green Sabbath”, “Laudato Si, par. 237”, etc.
Already today, there are Sunday laws written on government books.
The Sabbath Is not Friday, Saturday, Sunday, etc. The true Sabbath is calculated by true time, Genesis 1:14.
An example of God’s Time:
The first week.....the new moon day, the six work days and the Sabbath day.
The second, third and fourth week........six work days and then the Sabbath day.
There is never, ever, ever five weekly Sabbaths in any one of God’s given months as it is on other calendars.
Genesis 1:14 is a commandment from God. We are to use the sun, moon and stars to calculate the Sabbaths, etc., not the Gregorian calendar or any other man-made time.
((((((( I understand, under this world system, we use the Gregorian time for work days, doctor’s appointments, etc. ))))))
The Sabbath commandment is one of the Ten commandments listed in Exodus 20 and It is just as important as the other nine commandments. It is to be kept!
God has three category of days in the Bible, the new moon day, the six work days and the Sabbath day.
God’s months start with the new moon day, which is the first day of the month, the beginning of the month.
Yes
The Gregorian calendar do not start its months with the new moon day. The new moon day falls anywhere and everywhere on the Gregorian calendar.
Sometimes, on the famous Gregorian calendar, the new moon day falls on the “Gregorian Seventh day Saturday Sabbath.”
How can it both be the first day of the month and the seventh day Sabbath?
This along should help a person see that the Gregorian calendar is not true time and that the Biblical Sabbath should not be calculated by it.
The Sabbath is a sign between God and His people Israel and whosoever join themselves to them. One law is to Israel and to the stranger. Exodus 12:48,49
********* Now, we who keep the Sabbath by the lights in heaven, do not claim to always be on the true Sabbath day. We know that there are times we are not on the right day. But we do believe that Genesis 1:14 is the method to calculate God’s Sabbath. We do not fully understand God’s Time yet. God will give more light.
HAVE A GOOD DAY FRIENDS OF GOD..........GLORY TO THE FATHER AND SON!
An example of God’s Time:
The first week.....the new moon day, the six work days and the Sabbath day.
The second, third and fourth week........six work days and then the Sabbath day.
There is never, ever, ever five weekly Sabbaths in any one of God’s given months as it is on other calendars.
Genesis 1:14 is a commandment from God. We are to use the sun, moon and stars to calculate the Sabbaths, etc., not the Gregorian calendar or any other man-made time.
((((((( I understand, under this world system, we use the Gregorian time for work days, doctor’s appointments, etc. ))))))
The Sabbath commandment is one of the Ten commandments listed in Exodus 20 and It is just as important as the other nine commandments. It is to be kept!
God has three category of days in the Bible, the new moon day, the six work days and the Sabbath day.
God’s months start with the new moon day, which is the first day of the month, the beginning of the month.
Yes
The Gregorian calendar do not start its months with the new moon day. The new moon day falls anywhere and everywhere on the Gregorian calendar.
Sometimes, on the famous Gregorian calendar, the new moon day falls on the “Gregorian Seventh day Saturday Sabbath.”
How can it both be the first day of the month and the seventh day Sabbath?
This along should help a person see that the Gregorian calendar is not true time and that the Biblical Sabbath should not be calculated by it.
The Sabbath is a sign between God and His people Israel and whosoever join themselves to them. One law is to Israel and to the stranger. Exodus 12:48,49
********* Now, we who keep the Sabbath by the lights in heaven, do not claim to always be on the true Sabbath day. We know that there are times we are not on the right day. But we do believe that Genesis 1:14 is the method to calculate God’s Sabbath. We do not fully understand God’s Time yet. God will give more light.
HAVE A GOOD DAY FRIENDS OF GOD..........GLORY TO THE FATHER AND SON!
This is great. We've lived in this house with a huge walnut tree for 40 years and I never knew how to even tell if they were ripe. Thanks so much!
I have always loved black walnuts in fudge and haven't found any fudge with black walnuts in a long time. So my husband and I just made fudge for the very first time and our foodlion store sells black walnuts and man o man, the fudge with black walnuts is so good. The Flavor is out of this world. Thanks for the video and all the comments to learn from everyone.
I had an aunt who loved black walnuts. I used to sit and help her “pick out” those walnuts. She put them in candy that she made and even homemade ice cream. Didn’t like the taste much back then, but I do now. This was back in the 1960s. Thanks for the memory. ❤️
I have two black walnut trees in my yard and I havent done anything with them... I started watching videos to learn how and got discouraged about the process. Yours was the first video that made me feel like I could do it! Thank you!
this is my first year. i'm doing small batches, about 50 at a time. using a paint stirrer with a drill in a 5 gal bucket works good after you remove the hulls. have to change the water five times, but beats hand scrubbing! i have been doing it in my kitchen so far so good!!
Great video. This brought back memories. Growing up we had black walnut trees. We harvested those every year in the same manner that you did. Except growing up I was in charge of the entire process and always ended up with stained hands. The flavor is unbelievable. To this day I prefer black walnuts unroasted. But roasted is ok, too. Thanks for the memories.
I am 53 and still remember the shame of going to school with the stains from trying to process about 3 nuts.
I am in my 70's, and I also have many fond memories of black walnuts. In my school, stained hands were an accepted fact, since nearly all of us had blackened hands. I agree that black walnuts have a distinctive, heavenly flavor.
Ah yes, another fond memory from my childhood. I'm 65,grew up on a farm in Tennessee and we worked for everything we had. I had many chores in exchange for plenty of food and a roof over my head. The walnuts however, were all mine. They were one way that I made spending money .I would pour them out in front of the mailbox and let the mailman gladly hull them for me. I still went to school with stained hands but no shame, just money in my pocket that I had earned. That's the difference between me and liberals!!!
LOL. You think liberals didn’t grow up the same way?
@@algentry4382 lol I'm a 27 year old liberal Hoosier who does the exact same thing. Have since I was 6. My kids do it each year too. This isn't political so knock it off.
Oh, yes. Harvesting black walnuts. Every year during my youth, my family harvested black walnuts, and I mean my extended family. In school, most of the other kids had hands as blackened as mine, so we all knew that fall had arrived. I love black walnut ice cream, always have. And I am especially fond of black walnuts in chocolate chip cookies. This video brings back many happy childhood memories. Thanks.
Can I pick the walnuts from the trees or best to wait until they fall? Thank you for sharing a moment of your childhood, it sounds incredible!
@@amandaw6267 I always picked up black walnuts from the ground. I never saw them harvested from the trees. I don't see any reason why one couldn't pick them from the tree, but I am unsure. Let's hope someone else voices an opinion.
@@jasondaniel918 thank you very much for the insight! I have a couple trees near me that have lots growing still on the trees - I will do some more research :)
@@amandaw6267 I hope you have fun with the harvesting. For my family, black walnut season was always fun, a Sunday afternoon thing.
I do it like you.Same method, container, dried in back of pickup (where the squirrels can’t get them). I didn’t have a pressure washer last time, but this year I’ll do that too. I planted my two trees from nuts 40 years ago, the bigger one has a 22” trunk and goes up 16’ until the first branch. My original intention was to harvest it when it got big enough ( I’m a wood worker) , but I could never do that. There are too many family memories took place under that tree.
My grandmother experienced the Great Depression, so she was always looking for new ways to make a little money. Shelling walnuts was one of her programs. What I remember was she would spread newspapers over a section of her driveway, throw walnuts in their husks on top, and then drive over them with the family Oldsmobile. To break down the hard shells she used a hammer. It always seemed like a lot of work to me.
Great video! I use a garden weasel to gather, a flat shovel on a concrete slab to scrape the husks and a $50 cement mixer to wash the nuts. Tumbling the nuts in the mixer cleans the inside of the hopper very nicely.
Did this as a kid, we quickly learned what trees to harvest from because not all nuts crack the same. There is a pick tool that helps get the pieces out of the shells.
I use a dental probe to pull nutmeats out of shells sometimes.
Hard job. Hard video to make. Thanks for raising the bar. God Bless You. Black walnuts are a local blessing.
This was so interesting to watch, thanks for posting. We have a stand of black walnuts behind our house. Money does grow on trees
What state do you live in? I would love to buy some.
Black Walnuts are VERY expensive in the stores and not easily found either!
yes it does, I sell mine for $10 a bag, self serve, pick and pay! I have an honor system set up, deposit box, it's shocking how grateful people are for black walnuts and I see no reason to let them waste! I don't do anything but collect the money, they bring their own bags!
Great video. We found some trees in the forest near here with this strange green fruit. When I opened it I was amazed to see it was a walnut! and humbled because I never gave it a thought where they came from before. We are going back to the forest soon.
FREE FOOD! :)
And the squirrels loved the walnuts!!! I just had a few walnuts that I picked up from my friend's yard when I dropped her off from grocery shopping. I didn't want to waste them and figured that at least I could have a few walnuts for ice cream sundaes. So I processed them as you suggested (very concise, clear, and informative video!) and I put them on a little tray on a disconnected gas grill where I keep my basil plants. About an hour after I placed the walnuts there I went out to pick some basil. The walnuts were gone!!! Totally disappeared!!! In hindsight I heard some squirrels (little red squirrels) on the shed roof just before that. I really didn't think they could climb up and into the gas grill! I think the walnuts were a real prize for them!
😂. That’s hilarious! Easy peazy snack for them; you did all the work. 🙂
Thanks for this video! I just found a walnut tree near my home. I excited to do this!
Did you get any Walnuts done?
Our tree is LOADED this year
Regular walnuts will fall out of their outer layer when ripe. The green stuff will darken and shrivel, and open up. The walnut inside will easily fall out once that happens
Black thumbs of my grandfather during black walnut harvest I will never forget.
We have several black walnut trees on our farm and I've always felt too busy to utilize them. They are mostly a worry as they are toxic to horses. Glad to see your video as they are falling underfoot again right now and I had a passing thought about harvesting them.
Back in the 60's when I helped my Mom with them we had access to a hand corn sheller and it worked really well for removing the outside husk of the walnut. We always consumed them without roasting them. Loved them that way.
My uncle had several trees and we would put them in gunny sacks (always wear gloves, they stain your hands) and take them to my grandparents where they had a hand cranked corn sheller to remove the husks. Ours went on our driveway for a few days until dry and were then cracked open with a hammer. We would remove the meats with nut picks while watching TV. Never roasted them but Mom used them for baking all year long. Chocolate Chip cookies with black walnuts are still my favorite.
I’m glad that I stumbled upon this video. I picked up a few black walnuts from a neighbor’s tree yesterday. I’ve used the green hull to get rid of skin rash. When harvesting for the nut I always waited until the hull was blackened. I really like your technique.
What a palaver. Glad we have good old English walnuts which shed there outer casing naturally and are very simple to crack without an hydraulic press.
Thanks for the vid. Reminded me of fall afternoons with my mom. She grew up in the hills of southern Indiana. She used the gravel driveway method. I couldn't have been nine years old. I would crack my fingers with the hammer and she would just say "Be careful" and we would go right on.
I once collected and dried black walnuts (these and acorns are EVERYWHERE in my area), cracking them proved near impossible though. Shattering them with a hammer was the only thing that worked, and I still managed to damage the floors and walls with the shrapnel. The half dozen I got open were delicious and appley.
Thanks for sharing. Loved your video, calm voice and simple method of harvesting walnuts...🇨🇦🙏
we have three walnut trees on our driveway and we have never harvested them. I want to do that this year!! Thank you so much for this video!!
Almost my entire acre is black walnut trees. This is awesome. Thanks!
I didn’t make a video for my first attempt, but I tapped my walnut trees and made syrup out of the sap. It was awesome! Tasted like a mixture of butterscotch and maple syrup. The process is the same as for maple syrup, you just have to filter it differently after boiling. Check out some UA-cam videos on that process 🙂
@@E_Fleming thats awesome. Ill check it out.
Great ideas. I can't believe I haven't been pressure washing my harvests.😅
In my youth and early adulthood, I participated in many black walnut harvests, over 30 years worth. We never pressure washed either.
Thanks for sharing, my grandpa used to have 2 of these trees I his yard. I used his bench vice to crack the shell to retrieve the nut usually staining random things in his garage lol. I completely agree with you on the flavor of raw vs roasted the raw is definitely better. I've heard using these in ice cream makes a really unique flavor. Seeing this is making me research planting 2 in my backyard now.
Thank you! We wish we would have watched this earlier while the husks were green, but there is always next year! We just bought property with a walnut tree, so we are just learning!
Google is definately listening because an hour ago there were these balls rolling down the street and I told my grandson those are walnuts and god damn there's the video. Very informative great job.
Not sure if you saw the other conversation thread about that, but someone else said the exact same thing.
LOL! I had a similar experience. Next thing you know, ads for Alexa will include, "sponsored by the NSA", and people will still buy.
Hello.
My name is Zeenath.
Im from south Africa. Walnuts are very expensive here. This is the 1st time i saw it on a tree and the whole process the walnut goes through. Thank you for sharing this with us. Really amazing to see. ❤🌹❤
Hello zeenath...these black walnuts are decently abundant in the wild here in texas,but I've never seen the ones from the store on the tree...
@@dudeman1094 okay.
Once again thanks for the video💓🌸💓
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@@beautiofthenatureandvillag4400 are you serious????
I just bought a house across the street from a park. There's a bunch of black walnuts trees near the path where people walk or ride their bikes and they just get stumped on and left on the ground to rot. All these health nuts spending tons of money for walnuts have no idea what they're walking on everytime they walk through the park. I take my backpack and fill it to the brim.
You should collect them and preserve them.
I'm sure the squirrels have their fill.
I gathered up some black walnuts yesterday. I am going to try this method. Hopefully a black walnut pound cake is in my near future.
Thank you...best walnut harvesting video I've seen. You've got the technique down pretty efficiently. I'm giving this a try today!
Thank you now I know ,
I just moved to ga and I see these walnuts all over the property I have a job to do now because I love walnuts it’s that time of year . Cheers and thanks again.
Thank you so much for this video, I have a giant old walnut in my backyard and decided to try and harvest some of the walnuts this year. I had no idea where to start or what to do so this was very helpful! Cheers! :)
I was gifted a bag of fresh-harvested black walnuts by one of my university professors, and having never tried to prep them before, felt a bit lost (even with their helpful instructions). Thank you for the clear, concise, and well-made video! Excited to sample these walnuts in a few weeks
Thank you!
Very awesome video. Thank you for sharing your epic walnut harvesting methods. Beautiful shot of the walnut tree. 😎👌
Nice! Simple and to the point. The stomping and the pressure washer does all the work. I tried harvesting walnuts about a decade ago, but gave up as it was too much effort for too little walnuts.
As a teenager, I remember hulling these without gloves. That greenish brown is extremely hard to wash off. Wait until they turn black is not so bad. We used to store them in a window well until they darkened. Pressure washers wasn't around then. Heard stories of people driving over them to remove the hulls.
You got that right!! I had a couple holes in my gloves and my hands were literally stained for weeks!! I’m not sure if it ever washed off, or if my hands just produced new skin.
@@E_Fleming Yes, I found one in my yard recently. Had to have been from a squirrel. I opened it and had a whitish pulp inside. Needless to say I was'nt wearing gloves and my hands were stained for about two weeks. Found and collected a few more on a trip. Trying a better way to extract the nut from the shell. Black walnuts have such a distinct flavor. My father one time put them under the wood burning stove to dry.
@@E_Fleming well the ones I just took out of the green shell and laid out to dry are not gone. Came home today to see the neighborhood squirrel probably getting some of the bird seed.
Donna Ickes quite often,if you have many squirrels around, you'll find they leave a lot of bad walnuts lay, they can determine whether the walnuts are good or not in seconds and won't bother with ones that are rotten or otherwise inedible inside.
@@nolanshreve4596 I only see one in the yard.
Awesome video. I have two walnut trees, but I've never tried harvesting them. Walnuts have many excellent health benefits, but are pretty expensive. I'm going to try this. Thanks!
When I eat these my body screams YES.
I have multiple black walnut trees in my property. Excellent and inspirational vid. I’ve never harvested them. I’ll give it a try.
I've used a cement mixer to take husks off , then add water to clean them. The longer it runs, the cleaner the nuts get.
just let them dry up, they will start falling off and not stain everything.
This video Brings back memories of growing up in Mississippi, we would save those walnuts for our winter time snack food....
I have 2 large black walnut trees in my back yard, , for 40 years i have ignored them, i feel a litttle bit of drive now to start harvesting them , great video !
What a great DIY, thank you. I have so many black walnut trees and always wish I could use these walnuts. Now, I can.
Nothing fancy just a good how to at home video. Thanks for showing us.
Been reading about processing BW and was feeling a little intimidated, but your video made me excited and actually made it look fun! Thank you
We had lots of black walnut trees growing up. I remember my Granny used to give all of us children sandwiches made from white bread, black walnuts and a little salt. It tasted a lot better then than it sounds now! Also, if you find a "walnut" that is more oval shaped and the hull is sticky, that is a butternut. Slightly different taste and a lot of people prefer them, but the butternut trees seem to be more scarce. Also, black walnuts are NOT the same as the smooth-shelled English walnuts that you often see in stores around the holidays. The English ones are much milder. Black walnuts have a rather strong taste and some people find that eating too many of them can cause mouth irritation.
When you say butternuts are oval shaped, are they kinda oblong with a point at each end?
@@garymccall9573 Yes. They are of a similar size also and although the hulls are similar, they are covered with a slightly sticky substance.
As a kid my dad and I found using a 5” bench vise as a nut cracker worked much better than the hammer style.
Also found that using them instead of a potato in the potato cannon was lots more “fun”, 😂
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TY, daughter found out that a row of trees lining their farm drive, are black walnuts. She said they're too much trouble. I'm going to ask if I can have them.
Growing up we never roasted the black walnut. Us kids only got to pick walnuts when grandmamma Adams came to visit. She was the only one patient enough to fool with them.
We gathered up the walnuts. Put em in the driveway so the cars would knock the hull off. Then the nuts went to the basement to wait for grandmamma. Oh the walnuts were so good in cakes, cookies, fudge. Yum 😋
Us Appalachian never even heard of all that washing process. But whatever works.
Thanks for the video. Brought back childhood memories. I'm 66 yrs old.
Old timers/grandparents would dump buckets onto their gravel driveway and run them over with cars to dehull them, then after hammering the shell, nanny used the small rounded end of hair Bobby pins to get the walnut out of the cracked shells. ☺
We just moved to a new home that has a black walnut tree in the yard, this was a Great video! Super helpful!! Julie Cook
Thank you so much for the video, I have a problems to open green shells and now I know. Thanks!!!! .👍👍👍👍
Glad I found this. A neighbor got a big bag full of these and gave me a bunch. So I'll get them done soon.
We have three huge Walnut trees surrounding our small back yard. I was curious how to process them instead of discarding them. Your video was very informative and appreciated. I'm gonna give it a shot and see how they turn out.
Thank you, this is exactly the video I was looking for. We've had one in our yard and I've never tried to harvest them (the squirrels usually get to them first).
Thanks! We have so many walnut trees and I e never tried harvesting them but let the squirrels and bird have them instead but this year I’m gonna follow your tutorial. Great video thanks!
Thanks, my daughter and I liked your video! She wants you to make more ❤
So far you have the best video about walnuts from start to finish! THANK YOU!
Thank you!
@@E_Fleming Very welcome, we only have one tree, but this year there is alot of walnuts. Hopefully will manage to harvest a few of them! Thank you so much! 🌹👏🇺🇸
I used to put mine fresh from the trees in my driveway and run them over with the car! Lol then sat in the floor of my utility room for hours and cracked them open to shell them. I used them to make my fresh homemade pumpkin bread every year the holiday season. I also cooked up the pumpkin from scratch and stored in my deep freezer until I needed it. It was hard work but it was a labor of love. My family would be sitting at the kitchen table waiting for it to come out of the oven lol! They would eat it with ice cream or whipped cream or just plain. The smell of homemade pumpkin bread is amazing! Canned pumpkin never produced the same results, just too dry
Thankyou for posting..I have walnut tree.I cannot wait to get started
Thanks for the quick video. No fluff.
Used to use the hulls to Dye my Traps, give them a nice Black color. Threw the nuts away. Cheers
This is a cool idea. I wonder how well it would work on other things- What ratio of hulls to water did you use?
@@mjcdavies It's a Old Idea to Trappers, Keeps the Trap from Rusting and gives them a Natural Smell. The Steel you are trying to Dye has to be well Rusted. It's the same for Blueing on Fire Arms. I never kept track of how many hulls I . I would use how ever many I had Collected, the more the Better. Trappers used to sell this to Other Trappers, so maybe you could also Market it. Cheers
@@robertmclean9737 thanks for the detailed explanation!
Thank you for this. We just moved onto a property with about 15 massive black walnut trees and have been trying to figure out how to deal with them. This is helpful.
Maybe the best informational videos I’ve seen on here. No silly fluff. Nice job.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! Super helpful.
Thanks that was pretty neat watching you process the Walnuts
That was awesome!
Did it the same way. It’s the best way! Thanks 👍🙏
Really interesting process. I find the fastest way to get them is to buy a bag of them at Farm and Fleet.
I grew up loving black walnuts, I do not see much of them anymore. Nothing beats black walnut ice cream!!
Thanx for the video, very helpful. My tree is about 100 yes old. Every year I sit boxes upon boxes of these to the curb. I've made so many bags ...you get the drift. Anyway, u can also use this as a cloth dye if you boil the husk. It makes a light brown to ochre color depending on the fabric. Thanx again, well done
This was very helpful ! 🤩❤
I like the black walnuts blended with pecans in a pecan pie like my mom used to bake. Sure adds a great flavor to the pie!
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I really like that idea! Thanks. I love pecan pie. I have 6 big pecan trees in my yard and, I don’t know, a lot of walnut trees on my 9 acres. I noticed some of the trees ( both) some have nice big nuts and some have littler nuts. I’ll try it. Thanks 😊
Thank you for this video. We just moved onto our property and there's 3 of these trees. Excited to try this out.
Im so excited to do this because the lot that we bought is full of walnuts .. i must try this way of cleaning .. thank you
In the early 1950's my Aunt owned and ran a worm farm outside Dixon, California where she raised grey angleworms and red worms to sell in sporting good stores all over northern california. She snookered my parents one summer to have me come up and stay a couple of months with her and work for her. I was 14. I had to count 60 worms and some peat moss into a cardboard container and when we had enough we would drive around the country filling her orders. Guess what those worms were fed? She bought 55 gallon barrels of ground Black Walnuts.
Than you, your method of cleaning the nuts are the best. I did not have hard shoes, but I put mi e in a plastic bag and hammered the green skin wit the mallet. The outer shell came off very easily, then I scrape the nuts with a knife and wash them. Putting olive oil on your hands before the job, then gloves leaves your hands clean.
The first time I did this, I did not know the rules, when fi ished I notice my hands were like shoe polish, even though I wore gloves, so I have improved my method
Thank you! Good tip w the olive oil! The walnut stain doesn’t come off for weeks
Brings back fond memories of child hood.
I just moved to a place in Montana with three black walnut trees, but only one fruited this year. Definitely didn't find as many as you did, but now I know what to do with them. Thank you!
We had a very wet spring last year and ended up with a lot of walnuts. This year the trees were much less productive; we probably only have half as many on one of our trees and 1/10th as many on another tree. Maybe next year will be your year! :-)
Thanks for the video I have probably 9 walnut trees on my property, it's time to have some fun
Thank you! I have a beautiful black walnut tree dropping hundreds of walnuts right now.
Thank you for the video. I like your process
Thanks a lot for posting this dude!