Foraging Walnut for Medicine
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- I am SO excited to tell you that I stumbled across a huge black walnut tree in Oregon! YES! I jumped for joy because these don't grow anywhere near me and never have. Maybe some people have them planted around here, but I don't know of any; and I haven't seen any in the wild while out foraging. #herbalist #herbalism #foraging #heidvillegas #healingharvesthomestead
NOTE: Thank you to all the commenters who have let me know that this is likely an English walnut and not a black walnut. There is very little information on the identification between the two, and they are quite similar in appearance except that the English walnut leaves are more rounded, and the fruit is a bit greener. The GOOD NEWS is that they are similar in chemical structures, at least in terms of the juglone, the most active chemical constituent. Black walnut is higher in anti-oxidant activity as well as anti-fungal activity, but both walnut droops are fine to use for tincture and infused oil. In fact, my oil is black as can be----a very good sign.
Read on for a bit more information on black walnut.....
So, maybe you're wondering what's so special about black walnut?
A LOT, my friend! A LOT!
This is not the usual walnut we find in the grocery stores that we cook with. That's the English walnut (Juglans regia). The nut is meatier, sweeter, and much tastier than the poor black walnut (Juglans nigra). But when you're looking at medicinal qualities, hands down, black walnut is an exceptional plant and one that's been used for centuries by both Native peoples and settlers alike.
Black walnut contains extremely powerful chemicals that make it an incredible antifungal and antihelminthic (anti-parasite...i.e. worms). So, if you have or know of anyone struggling with fungal infections such as ringworm, candida, thrush, athlete's foot, nail fungus, OR worms (tape worms, round worms, and pin worms especially), then black walnut tincture, tea, oil, or salve may just be for you!
And get this:
If you have high blood pressure, eating a few nuts a day can be helpful, too.
(UM, I just realized that the discussion above is kind of "yucky" but hey, these things are good to know, right?)
Meanwhile, my tincture is processing, and so is my infused oil. I've got the oil infusion going in my crock pot because the walnut hulls are quite juicy, and you need to be sure all moisture evaporates from the oil. Generally I don't infuse fresh herbs in oil---that's a big No-No as mold loves to form in oil where there's any moisture. I go with dried herbs for oil infusions instead. But for the most powerful medicine, it's ok to use the hulls fresh....as long as you follow certain precautions. I'll go over this in more detail in the UA-cam video, once it's out.
Anyhow, if you have black walnuts anywhere near you, consider getting out there to forage them!
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When I was a girl, about 1948, two of our neighbors girls got ringworm in their hair. The rich family took their girl to the doctor. He shaved her head, and doctored the ringworm. She wore a crocheted beanie for almost a year. The poor family took a green black walnut off the tree, mooshed one side on the sidewalk and rubbed it on her scalp, with her hair still there. (She was a little blonde, and I don't even remember it staining her hair.) I remember her having a ringworm or two on her upper arm, and maybe her torso. It was treated the same way. Rich girl, bald for near a year. Poor girl, perfectly fine in a week or two. That was when I learned to appreciate 'traditional medicines' and figured out doctors don't know everything.
OMGOSH!!!!!😂 I LOVE this so much! Thank you for sharing this!
Doctors are sometimes thought of as legal murderers. Sorry, many are great servants, but their system is intended to hurt us.
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So in this case antifungal is the key goledseal , yarrow, garlic or sliver.. There are many good ringworm cures it's just a fungus same as jock itch or athletes foot. Good video ❤
@@wolfmangosan539 I was just a little girl, and was looking forward to Sue (the poor girl - but she was tough and mean, and beat me up regularly) getting her head shaved. When her mother cured her with a common ol' walnut, and the ringworm went away faster than the Peterson girl's (I liked her), I was pretty disappointed. (Sue grew up to be lovely, and the Peterson girl moved away by 3rd grade.)
Don't forget inside the hard shell is some awesome black walnuts nuts to. I grow up picking up walnuts and selling them in 50 pounds bags. But we also shelled away the soft green and black and dropped one into 5 gallon of water. After 3 to 5 days you notice the water turn brown and we used it to remove parasites from out animals on the working farm just put the water in the chicken/duck watering pot, feed one whole walnuts or just the soft shell to pigs, water for your dogs, cats, cattle, mules and horses and any animal on you farm. We removed ringworms, fungus it does stain but it will wear off. Because on the farm we had a gravel driveway to the barns. Instead of having to use a hammer to break away the outer shell we pour them in the gravel driveway. The truck and vehicles knott the our shell off, we gathered them up and placed them in a bucket or box inside the hay room in the barn. We would use then as needed till next walnuts harvest. It free food and absolutely taste great in homemade old fashioned chocolate candy, the one that Martha's Washington mded it has to be mixed and cooked on the stove for a pretty good time. But, it is better then any chocolate candy i have found. Breads, icing and has a better taste then English walnuts. As children we would set around the fireplace or heating stove during cold winter. Grandmother would keep a card of bobby pens and each child would receive one. And if you had never picked out walnuts you'd be shown how. The deal was 1 bite of the nut for every six walnuts were picked out. Because believe me that first taste of wild grow black walnuts is out of this world delicious. We also gathered wild hickory nuts and did them the same way. But, hickory nuts have a four piece hard shell around the nut. Those were picked up to help start wood fires. And yes you could smell just a hint of hickory in the air when used to start fires. The nuts were creaked by the oldest child and the picking of the nuts began. It was a wonderful time for us as children in many ways. We were helping gather and pick out the nuts, spending time with your family and knowing some delicious breads, cakes with icing and everyone favorite the chocolate candy with chopped nuts. I have taught my children and grandchildren and it's enjoyed every winter just like when I was a child. So gather up the free foods, use the hulls for fungus and dewormer for your animals and free and taste the delicious food made with you free nuts
Wow! Thank you SO much for these great tips! What memories you have, too---wonderful!
My Mom lived to 87 and her Mom to 93. Grandma had a black walnut tree in her yard and we all got the benefit of that bounty!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
To and too are different words with different meanings.
Wow ! So much knowledge and know how in your story.
Wish I had transmission of all that in my family. So many of us miss those treasures. Continue to pass on, that is more precious than gold. Thank you.
@@slappy8941 did you learn anything other than to bring a spell check?
I grew up in NJ and we picked up the nuts as kids for my mom and grandma. We would use the outter hul to make stain for furniture. We always had walnuts in a bowl at home for snaks and other things. Our hands would be stained most of the summer. How fun. Good for you. Like your video😊.
Thank you so very much! I appreciate your comment!
How smart our Creator is! Who else would give anti-inflammatory qualities to the very thing you turned an ankle on!😂
LOL! Yep! So true!
You can identify a black walnut by taking the enormous amount of shells, the squirrels deposited in your attic, and compare them to the shells underneath the black walnut tree lol
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One more comment. Something I learned this year and I have been doing this for a while. DO NOT CUT OPEN THE GREEN HUSK WITH A KNIFE. Instead, take a mallet or hammer and smash it on a flat surface. I have a gravel drive, but I have paver stones I used this year to do this. I can now husk 4 or 5 times as many in the same amount of time as it used to take me struggling with a knife. Additionally, your hand, even with gloves, will get sore and bruise or swell if you do enough of them and that can be 10 to 15 freshly fallen ones, or 20 to 25 black walnuts that you have allowed to set out a while. USE A MALLOT! It is also MUCH safer. Wear protective glasses also! God bless all here.
Great tips! Thank you!
What kind of oil was she using?
@@martylanning8133 Olive oil for black walnut husk oil, but vodka *usually) is what is used for tinctures. You don't consume more than about 3 to 10 drops at a time so the alcohol is not a problem. I make both the oils and tinctures.
@@omearica-rc6fp thank you
My dad, born in 1931, was always on the hunt for black walnuts. He cracked them on a large anvil in our backyard. When I married my father-in-law, born in 1929, made the neatest gifts from black walnut shells and he always has a jar of the meat ready for me when I visited.
That's a wonderful memory! Thanks for the comment!
You put the comma in the wrong place so it says you married your father-in-law.
I used the back of my muck boots to step on hundred of these and gather the walnuts! Squish it one direction then lift up and squish it the opposite direction and the nuts come right out of the green hull. Clean and easy process.
Gathered some more hanging on the tree for these 2 extractions.
Thanks for sharing the info!
Thanks for the great tip!
I believe your tree is an English/Persian or carpathian walnut. The very dark green shiny leathery leaflets with round leaf tips are a dead giveaway. Any other variety of blackwalnut,butternut,heartnut, manchurian etc. Have pointed dull green leaflets.
That is a very magnificent tree you have there!
Thank you so much for the helpful tip. I'm a Mojave Desert and Idaho mountain west forager, so this tree was a surprise and unknown to me. The property owner told me it was black walnut, and I did try to find identification differences....but I couldn't! Luckily, the medicinal value is somewhat similar, so the herbal making isn't a complete waste. :-) Thank you so much again!
We have multiple trees in our yard and I had no idea they were so useful
Yes indeed!
The wood is valuable as well. I’d keep them for health related tinctures though.
I am glad I found you today! It appears we are very like-minded. I used to have a website for our organic farm where we raised soy-free chickens for meat and eggs. We also raised sheep, steer, and dairy animals. We sold the farm so I no longer have the website. We even did wild edible workshops on the farm! I LOVE the fact that God has given us all we need to stay healthy! Today I harvested lots of walnuts! I will try the oil infusion. I have never made one. I agree with your mission of having a herbalist in every household. Thank you for the great video.
Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words! I appreciate you!
Black walnuts are round like little tennis balls and very soft (easy) to cut into. The nuts you are using (challenging to husk) and more almond-shaped - I believe, may be English walnuts. Thank you for the instructions, and for all the great info. I have processed our black walnuts both ways, as you taught, but wasn’t sure what to do with it or how to use it. God Bless you Heidi and thank you. 🙏🏼💌
Thank you so much! Yes, there are a number of comments about the identification. Luckily, you can use them both! :-)
Crazy! I inherited a tree @ 35 years ago. I don't the taste of black walnuts. They are hard to open, so I have trashed every harvest. I recently learned pigs like them and recently had learned of their medicinal value. This is the first walk through I have seen; thank you. This was an off year (not one nut), but I will be ready next year!
Thank you so much for your sweet words!🥰
I'm from Kansas, living in Missouri and black walnuts are delicious In oatmeal cookies, biscotti, Swedish rusks, banana bread and in frosting. My grandma always made me a delicious chocolate with a creamy white frosting with black walnuts in it. The combination is absolutely delicious!
Oh, those all sound SO good! You should do a recipe book---I think people would love this! I know I would!🥰
I agree! A cookbook would be wonderful for those of us without elders aka knowledge!
The old black walnut tree. I come from a long line of old German cabinet makers. Black walnuts were a staple in our house. You could eat all you wanted. I still like the taste of them better than those bland English walnuts. We had five big walnut tree ringing our yard. The walnut tree is the last to get it's leaves in the spring, and the first to loose them in the fall. In the fall in our yard it was wise to wear a hard hat just to walk to the garage. And then there were the squirrels. Over the thirty years we lived there the squirrels became very friendly. We could hand feed them and even pet them as time went by. Black walnut,, plant them if you can, if you don't have much luck that way try my way. Go find a supply of walnuts. Place them in the yard. Find a friendly squirrel who will work cheap and have him plant them.
I just love this!!!
Definitely an English Walnut. Informative video.
Thank you!
I was concerned for you when you began this video in Oregan, where your mom's black walnut tree is. Glad and grateful that you seemed much happier by the end. I'm compassionate that way. I spent hours today trying to separate black walnut husks from walnuts that fell off the tree today. Tough job and I have bruises on my hand to prove it. A utility knife might have made it easier, but either way, be very careful, they can be very, very tough and the knife can & likely will slip. I know they soften up a bit after a week, but my intuition tells me the fresher, the better, but it's only intuition & may not be correct. Thank you for the tip on heating my fresh oil in water in my slow cooker with the lids off. I've got a quart done for the tincture now (or will be in around 6 weeks) and the oil simply needs to be heat treated. God bless all here, especially the host of this video. I love pleasant hosts with no loud or obnoxious music and straight to the point tips. You accomplish that and more, so I subscribed. Thanks.
Wow! Thank you so very much for both the tips and the compliment! I'm with you---I don't like music when I'm trying to learn....
Thank you for expressing your feelings and unknown knowings, I duly feel confused about the tannins and other medicinal properties fresh versus wormy-black. Will research for myself
The shell is such a wonderful dye base. I will always love the scent of this tree. ❤
It really is!🥰
I have to be quick to beat the squirrels to the black walnuts.
I love them!
Yes, those squirrels do love them too! LOL Good luck!
My parents ordered & planted an English (Carpathian) Walnut tree from a catalog when I was a kid, & planted it (I actually found a catalog pg in their basement, yrs ago!). I too, was thinking this tree looked like their tree (they still live there, w/ their almost 40 yr old walnut tree). The leaflets are pretty much always rounded, mostly entire (smooth, not super toothed/serrated), & odd-pinnate (fernlike & like you showed, w/ a leaflet on the end), & scented. The bark starts off grey & smoorh, but develops furrows later, giving it a rougher, slightly darker look as the tree ages. Black walnuts are generally supposed to be even-pinnate (ending in a pair of leaflets, although apparently some will have a single leaflet, that's quite small), serrated, more narrow lanceolate w/ pointier tips leaflets. The bark is (I believe) always a (darker) brown, though I do not know if they start off smooth & become furrowed/rougher w/ age. There are other species in the walnut family, but I have very little experience w/ them, other than helping my friends remove a messy Tree of Heaven. Walnut family members all produce juglones, the allelopathic substance that is particularly adverse to the tomato/potato (Solanaceae family). I did take Botany in college, so hopefully I'm remembering the terminology OK, but even then we didn't discuss this family in those classes, as they aren't common where I live (UT). When harvesting for nuts, that mostly green, but w/ some brown to start peeling from is the easiest & cleanest way to remive the husk. The entire fruiting body is called a drupe.
Thank you SO much for this. I have searched and searched for information on the differences between the two walnuts, and there is nothing useful. Luckily, the chemical constituents of the two trees are very similar, with black walnut having more of the juglone content, which makes it so powerful as an antioxidant and antifungal. But, I'm very pleased with the blackness of my tincture, and have gotten some good results already. The property owner told me it was a black walnut tree. I searched and searched and couldn't find info. Medicinally, they're similar, with black walnut being slightly more powerful. I've thought about removing this video, but it's doing quite well....So I just keep explaining myself over and over again, LOL.
I wish I had seen your explanation of the leave identification when I was doing my research! You should start a plant identification site!!!
I thought that was an odd looking black walnut tree... ouch...
What a cutie 🫂
Thanks!
This is amazing information, I am so glad that I came across your channel this morning. My neighbor next door has 12 Black Walnut trees in their yard and I am going to have to ask them if I can harvest some of their nuts. When the previous owners still had the property, I had permission to take anything I wanted from their Apple, Pear, and Walnut trees, but the new owners moved in this past spring and I have yet to ask for their permission. Also, I am still trying to find any information about the Shagbark Hickory tree and the Hickory nuts, which look identical to the Black Walnut except they don't turn black. I have an 85-year-old tree growing directly outside my back door, and it is just starting to drop nuts now (those that the squirrels are throwing at us that is). I started teaching myself about Holistic medicine starting about a year ago and I am definitely going to look into your channel a bit more and glean any information you are teaching. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us. May God always Bless you with good health, safety, and prosperity in all you do. God Bless ~SuzyJC-in-Central-Southeastern-Ohio_10.02.2023~
Thank you so much, Suzy! I hope you get permission to forage/harvest---that sounds like a wonderful resource for you! Welcome to the community!
My Dad use to line them up in a trench shaped long box(es), and run over them with his truck. This would break up the hull so that it’s easier to remove, but it doesn’t destroy it.
I love Black Walnut in Banana Bread! It’s strong but pleasant.
I've heard of others driving over them too! Thanks for the great tip about using them in bread, too!
I love the smell of black walnut hulls. 😉
Me too!
What wonderful information! Thank you.
You are so welcome!🥰
We have black walnuts nearly big as baseballs with the hulls on,use caution on a windy day while under a black walnut :o
Dang! Those are BIG!
Thank you! There's a giant in the corner of our Northern Va street and everyone finds it so annoying because it's so fruitful 🤦♀️🤣 This year l'll be the crazy woman celebrating with a Red Flyer cart (pretending to be cleaning up!). Woohoo!!!
YES!!! This is wonderful for you!
I use my sons red wagon all the time for yard work. In a year or so he will probably get married and want it back. I hope not!! I'll have to find me a new, old wagon. 😂
Excellent Video!! Good for you for following your own intuition!❤
Thank you!🥰
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you----
I bet that tomato was delicious! We had 2 tomato plants in our back yard and they put out 113 tomatoes between the two of them in one season! 113! I counted only the ones that were good enough to eat! I'm in North Kakalaki and we know how to do stuff like that real good here.
That's amazing! Isn't it SO wonderful to grow your own food....and medicine too?
Yes this is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it😊
My favorite verse!!!
10: 42. Overall that's a lot of cutting. I would try to find a plyers or make a pair that holds the walnut while it's being peeled, and/or wear a knife-proof glove.
Thank you for the walnut herbal information.
Thank you so much, and you're right!
I use to have A 5 acre farm and my husband did the hole perimeter of our property in black walnut trees.
That's a LOT of walnuts!
Thank You So Much😊💖🌸
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Thanks Heidi!
I live in SW Missouri and Black Walnuts are almost invasive here. True on the variety. Black Walnuts are a little rounder. I will definitely be trying this come fall. We usually gather them and sell them to "dealers" in the fall. I can't wait to try this. How long do you keep the jar with the oil in the water?
This is great! Thank you so much!!!❤❤
You're so welcome!🥰
I have a couple of these. Big as hell. Always dropping these big ass green balls. I have tons of these green balls all over my yard.
Thanks for the comment! I had to laugh at your description! SO true---
Really great video, thanks so much for making this!!
Thank you, Laura!!!
Thank you so much for this information! I’ve been so excited to hear what I can do with the hulls. Thanks again!
Great video! And I love your warm down to earth attitude!
Thank you so much!🥰
Great job
Thank you so much!
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
Great video👍🙏✌
Thank you so much! :-)
A great big thank you for all the info on black walnuts.
You're so welcome!
My neighbor had a black walnut tree, i pick up bunch off ground blackish n maggies, yuk i didnt know about hull, i clean them with a tooth brush took forever n dried em out over several weeks packed em up n winter came i ended up leaving some out daily for the squirrel s. She had the tree cut down so no more issues of em bunking in her building.
Thanks for this great comment! Yes, those maggots are a bit much, arent' they?
This is so neat! Our old house wr had a black walnut tree and I found it a nuisance. The squirrels would tease our dog and throw them at him. Ha! I wish I had this info back then. Thanks for sharing
You're welcome! :-)
Squirrels are edible too so many recipes online 😂
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So many people online talk about hunting and eating the squirrels, yet I never feasted on any.
🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿 Not yet anyways.🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿
Great video!
Thanks!🥰
Wonderful to hear and see the identifying characteristics of botanical specimens -- so important when foraging!
Thanks, Rachel!
Franckinsence and myrrh love those also champa etc❤❤
Same here!
Thankyou so much for your information.
Thanks, Sylvie! I appreciate the comment!
THATS what those green balls are that fall in my backyard all summer?? I was told by my neighbor that they were unripe walnuts, that something was wrong w the tree! Lol what the world...
Yep! :-) Enjoy!
Thank you so much for this video, I had no idea of its benefits ❤🙏
You're so welcome!❤️
Very interesting.
Thank you!
Great video 😊
Thanks! 😊
The leaves of your tree are a little larger than mine (a 50+' tree in Ohio), but i have little doubt those are black walnuts; that aroma is very distinctive! The bark and the nuts themselves are pretty identical to mine. I've certainty wished for years that the tree was English walnut, as even though i prefer the English taste best, by far, I'd still use them for cooking, but never wanted to invest in the expensive machine for breaking those shells! Driving over them never seemed a good option for food purposes. Also, the walnut groves of Clovis/Fresno, CA of my childhood were graphed trees. The fruit were English, but the roots were from the black walnut variety, much hardier & pest resistant. The bark was a distinctive darker on the bottom portion, lighter at the top half+. Interesting video. I've disposed of hundreds of nuts this year alone... picked up 416 just today.
Thank you SO much! I appreciate your words because there's been some controversy on the identification here. The property owner told me it was black walnut, others have said no, and some have said it's a hybrid. But! The tincture and oil is still black....and that's the juglone. So it's good for me!
Thanks 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
I just discovered your channel. I love this! I’m also in Idaho. Look forward to learning. ❤
Welcome to the community!🥰
I just tinctures this! Thank you for the instructions!! 🙏♥️✌️
You're so very welcome!
To bad this is 2yrs old you are interesting God bless😊
Yes, for some reason, YT decided to push this older video out! I'm glad though!
Thanks again ❤ got alot trees
You're welcome 😊
Black Walnut. ❤
Totally agree!
Thank you!
You're welcome!🥰
Thank you
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Nice information
Thank you!🥰
I just stumbled onto your channel today! I greatly enjoyed your video. We’ve either got hickory or black walnut volunteering in the back yard, thanks to the local squirrels. I do hope I stay focused to get through your five day class. If so, I’ll try another.
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I had to come back and watch this again. I needed a reminder.
Thanks, Sara! Although...this may actually be an English walnut. Luckily, the medicinal properties are the same or similar.
I will be getting some black walnuts tomorrow. Can’t wait to try these recipes.
Hope they turn out well! :-)
How long do you keep the oil infusion in the crockpot?
Extremely enjoyed this! No winded narration just plain common sense facts. I have lived in two locations with this tree dropping fruits on the roof and always wondered what it is and how it can be used. The squirrels particularly enjoy these lovely trees. Thank you and i will certainly explore your wonderful channel. Definitely subscribed ❤ ✌
Thank you SO much! I appreciate your sweet words more than you know!
I have this tree on my property and knew these were some kind of nut but haven't had the time to research. I'm so glad for your wonderful video. I can't wait to pick some this weekend and make a tincture. I hope it's not too late.
Hi! Be sure of the identification, ok? The property owner told me this was black walnut, but there are jillions of comments here (mostly kind, some not) that this is English walnut. BUT the medicinal properties are relatively similar with both containing the juglone that is wanted. :-)
Thank you, Heidi! Wish I could have been there in that beautiful locale with you. I made a Black Walnut salve with Calendula, plantain and lavender and it’s amazing. A gorgeous earthy colour and scent. Doesn’t stain the skin. 👍🏼💌Black walnut is a powerful medicine, amazing functions/uses. A beautiful gift. God provides for our needs, that’s for certain.
Now ...if We could somehow bottle that initial scent of the outer shell of a fresh-picked ripe walnut - that lime, citrusy, pine like scent would make a great men’s cologne. But the scent becomes more iodin-ish once the shell is cracked open and exposed to air, as it oxidizes quickly. That fresh outer peel scent is so uplifting!!
Yes! Thank you for the great tips and comment!
New to your channel. I made some of this last week , plus a few other things . I love making tinctures & infused oils. ❤
Welcome!!🥰
I forgot to use gloves last year while shredding the hulls for a tincture. My hand was black for months. You can't wash it off with anything I've found. Lol
My wife and i just took walnuts to market. After having the hulls removed we ended up with 472lbs. of nuts.
This is wonderful!!! Congrats!
So thankful that @Quittz shared this channel with me.
Thank you! :-) Please do spread the word!
Thank you. I have a black walnut tree out back. My mom used to make Vanilla black walnut fudge.
I bet that was so good!
great information...thank you! My 1st year living on a property with about 5 old black walnuts
You're very blessed!
Info is so limited on this fruit and this is best video I've seen and even in comparison to popular media articles, the most informative source. I've only found one other comparable article
Thank you SO much. I really appreciate your comment because I looked and looked for information too----you're right. There's very little, and also very little comparing black walnut identification to English walnut identification. Thank you so much!
Liked and subscribed! On a walk in SWO MO, I picked up some black walnuts and wondered, “ What can I do with these?” Amazing to find your video right after ❤
It's serendipity! Meant to be!
Hi Heidi! Thanks for this video. My daughters yard here in northern Wisconsin is full of black walnut trees. But I wasn’t sure what to do with them . Thanks to you I’ll be harvesting them tomorrow. By the way I grew up in Idaho…. ❤priest river…. Thanks again
I'm so glad this was helpful! Priest River is beautiful!
U can also make a very good syrup with walnut trees in late winter...some people say it's better than maple
Thank you. Love how you explain everything. Very informative.
Thank you so much, Carma!
How long do you leave it in the crockpot?
I love walnuts, I eat them everyday mixed in my yogurt. 😊
Me too!! I love them also!
I looked closely at the walnut when you had a close up as well as the leaf and im pretty sure you have an English walnut there not black walnut. I have a 40 year old black walnut next to my house and have been using the nuts for about 6 years so my eyes dont deceive me. If you tried to crack the nut and found it rather easy then its more likely English walnut but if you needed a hammer and a power blow maybe it is black walnut.
Hi, Scott! Another viewer said the same---that he thought I had English walnut instead. I was told by a reputable source that it was a black walnut tree, so that's what I went with. I've since done a great deal of research on the medicinal properties of each, and the lucky thing is they are similar medicinally, although not in taste. Also, black walnut is higher in certain antioxidants, too. But I can tell you those hulls were glued on! :-) And, that's one of the signs of black walnut.... Either way, I'm very pleased with the strength of the tincture and the infused oil.
@@HeidiVillegas Thanks for responding, ill have to say that i did notice the date the video was made and noticed it was in august which is about 2 months early for a black walnut to be ready, my tree starts dropping in the first week of October. So i would say they hulls were glued on because they weren't ripe yet. That would be a good time to do a follow up video for foraging for nuts in out of the way places.
It looks like English walnut like my Uncle had
That's what I thought, cuz my black walnut tree doesn't look like that. So it's good to know facts.thank you Scott
I have had a black walnut in my yard for almost 50 yrs that we planted from a nut from the trees in the woods right behind my in laws house..the leaves on mine are all pointed oval type leaves..my tree starts "dropping a few walnuts starting as early as mid Sept some years other years a week or two later but majority of the nuts fall during Oct..right now this year it has been steadily dropping them a lot at a time ..some years there are more nuts than others... We tried using the meat but there was so little of it that it was almost not worth the effort...with the new info from this video on how to use it medicinally is nice to know so the tree is more useful than just for wonderful shade on the house and food for the squirrels and chipmunks that live in my yard
Thank you for sharing this information. I live in Florida I hope climate allow me to grow this tree.
I hope so too!
It seems there are some worms that resist the anti-parasitic properties. Glad to know that their presence does not necessarily indicate a spolied aspect of the medicinal properties
Yes---
They grow wild where I live .
Thank you !
You're so welcome!
You have the prettiest eyes!!
Thank you so much!
i wish i was your neighbor lol i’d have so much fun asking question after question lol chaparral is one of my favs 😉 god bless
Thanks, Baddina! I'd love to have a neighbor who doesn't think I'm a crazy weirdo, too. LOL Most people have NO idea how powerful the plants around us can be.
@@HeidiVillegas it’s weird how the ones who are in tuned with life are categorized as weird.. smh crazy world we live in 😂😂😂
Very helpful, thank you! I'll see if i can get a black walnut tree from our local botanical garden as it is not native in my region...
Hi, Aram! Try to find one as mature as possible, as they take nearly 10 years to start growing fruit when grown from seed.
@@HeidiVillegas yep as all nut trees... but unfortunately they didn't have it listed on their selling list... maybe i'll need to talk to specialists there, as some trees exist there... anyway, i guess something can replace that grows natively here
I used my husbands vice grip on his work bench. Worked amazing
GREAT idea!
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge ❤
I might have to listen to it again as it i seem to have missed HOW you use the oil infused rinds and the tincture made with the alcohol.
I'm brand new to this. My first interest was making my own oil of oregano but I've yet to actually do it, but im super interested in learing as much about all these home & natural remedies as i possibly can
Learning to work with plants around you is the MOST wonderful and creative endeavor! Be sure to check out my website: healingharvesthomestead.com/ and join the newsletter list because I share things each week not found here on YT or on my website---most people love it!
Our black walnut trees that grow wild around here have much smaller leaves. I am looking forward to harvesting the black walnuts this year and doing something useful with them. They have started to fall, a few here and there, so it will not be too long before the ground is covered!
Hey, Melinda! I was told this was a black walnut by the owner of the property, BUT there are a few comments telling me this is an English walnut. Either way, the hulls serve medicinal purposes!
Same here on my ky farm. Much smaller leaves & much bigger, rounder nuts. My squirrels love them too
Just be sure to wear some rubber gloves when taking the husks off or your hands will get really stained!
I love everything about black walnut, however I have not been able to find any. To have a tree is one of my goals.🥰
I want to plant one, too! I need to find a nursery that sells them.
@@HeidiVillegas if you find it please let me know.🥰
Yours look small mine are about the size of a pool ball. Had an abundant harvest this year from my black walnut trees. I have four old large trees and probably about five or six young trees maybe 8 or 9 years old and this year I've got tons and tons of black walnuts about 5 - 30 gallon trash cans full.
Wow!!! You are very blessed, Dennis!💖
I found your video while learning to harvest Black Walnuts. I'm glad to learn of the medicinal purposes, I try and use what I can that grows outdoors instead of OTC or Rx.
But I also love Black Walnuts raw, and in cookies/brownies. The flavor isn't bitter when ripe, it's more flavorful and rich than the English Walnut. :) They last many years in the shell.
But these cannot be cracked open w a nutcracker. They are too hard. Hammer or vice works. The shells can be used in crafts or "sand" blasting as well. :)
Wow! Thanks for the extra tips, Jenni!
@@HeidiVillegas Most welcome!! :) I thought of you today as I was doing mine today. :) There are so many trees here and hardly anyone gathers them so when I can do my walks I've been gathering. :) I LOVE the scent!!!!! Unfortunately they were all past the green point, but I 'peeled' them (rolled under my boots), sprayed w water, and going to let dry for about 2 weeks. They will keep for 5-7 years in shell. :) I'm so glad I found your channel, I love learning ❤
I have them everywhere here in northern Illinois. I love black walnuts! But be careful about what you add them to and how many. They've got a wonderful but powerful flavor, you don't need many in a recipe.
Sherri, tell me, when can I find them in Northern Illinois. Are there any in Moraine Hills Valley park? Also, when to pick them for tincture, September or October?
❤t thanks for this video I have some issues in my daughter thinks she still has pinworms and keeps buying the stuff and taking it and I don't like all these medicines because I know a lot of them are just made to make a sicker and cause other problems so thank you for having this on UA-cam I appreciate it and I grew up with black walnuts and they're prolific here in Virginia and in North Carolina I know there's a big tree of them at one of my family's houses and I used to have a whole Grove of them here in Virginia never knew that they were medicinal thank you so much
Be sure to do research on this before taking! :-)
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Welcome aboard! So glad you're here!💖
Hi, I have been learning all about making tinctures these last few years. I have made Lilac, wild lettuce, Star Anise, Fennel & golden rod so far. I also make salves etc Plantain, dandelion, & balm of Gilead are some of my favorites😁 I watched this video the other day and I was excited & made the black walnut Tincture today. I had some left over so I am also making some walnut oil. I have never used fresh things for my oils.. I have the jar in the crockpot now. How long does it take to draw out all the moisture?
Thank you for showing us this method🥰
I let it go for quite awhile, but to be on the safe side. 24-48 hours is what I prefer.
@@HeidiVillegas Thank you so much! I did it right them I did a little over 48 hrs😉