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I grew up eating black walnuts. My family always harvested the black ones, never green, We never wore gloves to husk them. I was not alone in school with my black hands. Nearly every kind in school had stained hands. I loved the flavor of black walnuts in cookies, ice cream and nut bread.
The green husk can be used as a fish pioson that stun the fishes respiratory system. You fill a mesh potato sack up with husk and rocks. Place the bag upstream of your saining net. The fish will float to the top of the water to your net. You get about five uses out of a bag. Harvest the fish, clean'em then salt'em or smoke"em. It's a good winter store. Also take them black husk and fill a coffee can half full. Then add linseed oil let it set a week. Take a old potato smasher mash them husk then strain out the husk pieces. You'll have yourself a damn fine high yield wood stain.
My Grandmother told me about using black walnuts to get fish too, she said to put a bunch in a gunny sack and crush them (she said they used to run over the sack with the car) Throw it in a pond and wait. She said during the depression they did that a lot.
As a kid growing up with black walnuts, I can tell you from experience that they do indeed stain everything. Also, good soap and scrubbing doesn't work, you have to wait a week for it to go away.
You can use the darkened water as a dye. Example: rinse your black jeans or tee-shirts in the "dye" with a cup or so of vinegar...let them soak for a day (or two, if you wish), changing their position in the water often....and let them dry completely on a clothesline in fresh air. Repeat the process again if you want a deeper or more even color. Always wash jeans "inside out" in cold water...and hang them "inside out" on the clothesline to prevent too much fading from sunlight. (I NEVER use an electric dryer....clothes dry for free on a clothesline, and they retain a better texture...just shake them out and fold as you take them off the line. If you use a clothesline your clothing will also last much longer, and stay in better condition. The hot air and tumbling in the dryer breaks down fabrics and wears out your clothes much quicker than actually wearing them will. All that "lint" in your dryer is actually the fibers of your clothing wearing away in the dryer. If you use a clothesline inside your house in the winter/heating season: your household air receives necessary added moisture to keep your skin, hair, and respiratory tract healthier....and the bit of extra humidity in the air helps to keep your home warmer for a longer time. If you use a clothesline...it's a win, win, win!! You save money on your electricity bill...your clothes last longer...and mother earth gets a little break, too.) ~RED ☮♥♫
TrexsterInNC Please elaborate....If you are talking about staining wood...that is NOT what you said...BUT I have tea-stained curtains and other fabrics....and they are beautiful. I have also used tea and coffee grounds to make a wood stain...and then urethane over it. I suppose the same thing could done here, BUT watery stains (or dye) used on wood tend to raise the grain on the wood...which means you have to sand it smooth again...which basically takes most of the stain with it. Best to stick with oil based stains for use on wood..
Had no idea what these were until I watched this video. Used to have trees in my backyard that dropped them everyday, but never tried opening them. What a surprise lol
No joke! I was in Auburn, NY at the William Seward House Museum, and came across these fruit in their yard. Next day, your video came up on my feed! Thank you for doing the video and Thank you NSA, for knowing what I’m doing when not watching UA-cam videos! 🤪
I grew up gathering and eating black walnuts from the area where I grew up. Watching the video, I could smell the aroma of the green flesh of recently fallen walnuts in my mind. I always liked that smell and loved the flavor of black walnuts. It's still a favorite ice cream flavor (we made homemade black walnut ice cream a couple of times too).
We used to just lay them out in the sun to dry. Never had to wash them - the skins would dry up so much they easily came off leaving no residue on the shell.
My Dad would take us along the north shore roads on Long Island NY to gather black walnuts every fall. We would lay them out on opened brown paper grocery bags in the attic and let them dry. The outer "fruit" would turn powdery and cold be rubbed off easiiy.
These are the best tasting walnuts in the world. We had a beautiful huge tree on the farm beside the mulberry trees. The 5 of us children were so lucky growing up on the 400 acre farm in Nebraska. Very blessed. Thank you God.
I'm 50+ yrs old & I never knew that was a Walnut from the time I was a kid til now. As kids we would throw them around too. They smelled wierd too. I never asked anyone about it. Well I learned something new today.
I've seen these all around I never knew you could eat them .. Thank so much it's fall now and I'll bet I can find a big bag and get some free food! Thank you so much for teaching us this ..
At my grandparents 'farm there were English black walnut trees, and I used to gather them up to take home and husk - sometimes did that while at my Grandparent's place. Black walnuts are far superior to English walnuts -much better flavor!
walnut spread (like peanutbutter but made from walnuts) 1 c walnut meat 1 tsp coconut oil 1-3 tsp honey or agave syrup (to taste) (I use the bullet grinder/blender hubby got me last year for this). First grind the nut meats good. Then add the coconut oil and put on blender attachment a couple pulses at a time and a rubber scraper to stir. Slowly add honey to personal liking, only a couple 2 or 3 pulses on the bullet blender, take lid off, stir with a scraper, attach and blend. keep going until it's all blended together good the consistency of peanut butter.
Growing up, we filled bushel baskets with walnuts from the tree in our back yard, then put in basement and waited for the walnuts to turn black. Then we took outside and stomped on them to remove all the outer flesh, then back to the basement. Just before Christmas, we would have a craving party - using hangers on the basement floor (there was a walnut oil stain where we did this). Great memories!
Great video! :-) And yes, gloves are a MUST... unless you enjoy green stains that turn a nasty shade of brown. LOL Whatever you do, don't pour water off of them anywhere you want other trees to grow. The acidic chemicals prevent other trees from growing within the drip-line of a black walnut. My tribe (the Muscogee Creek Indians) once used the green hulls to fish with. You can net, or bag the fresh, green hulls, and place them across a stream. The chemicals in the hulls will make the fish that are downstream float to the top. :-) My great grandmother made the best black walnut cookies ever! They make great cakes, cookies, candies, etc. Just use them as you would hickory nuts, pecans, or english walnuts. They are well worth the effort it takes to process the meats.
Walnut tea can be poured on the ground to gather worms for fishing too. However, it is illegal to use black walnut for gathering worms or fishing in most places in the USA. Check your local laws.
I remember something I saw as a child. There was one of those "local morning talk shows" in which a guest brought in a bag of black walnuts. He showed the hostess how to remove the flesh and she also defleshed a few of the walnuts. A minute or two later while the guest was still talking, you could see her wiping her hands with a tissue. During a break in his conversation she then asked him "How do you get this off your fingers?" The look on her face was priceless when his response was along the lines of "You don't. You just have to wait until it wears off."
"don't pour water off of them anywhere you want other trees to grow." Not just other trees, definitely don't pour in a garden or grow one of those trees in your yard if you want a garden to grow.
I'm from Turkey and walnuts are one of the things we produce the most. This video reminded me working in those fields. We used to get up early, collect walnuts until almost afternoon, taking a nap and playing with my friends, spending our hard earned good paid salary for the day.
My dad and I used to go to the forest to collect black walnuts every fall. They are a lot more effort than the english walnuts but I liked them a lot more. I do a lot of cooking now and miss those black walnuts. I have not seen them since moving to Canada's west coast. I did my walnut collecting in Alabama.
Another thing about Black Walnuts is that if you have a tree within 50 feet of a tomato plant, the fruit of the tomato will never ripen, it will rot and fall off the vine long before it has a chance to ripen. Black Walnut trees are also a source of fine furniture wood and also prized as gun stock making too, and as such demands a high dollar amount in lumber yards. Also those that has a lot of Black Walnut trees are sitting on a gold mine if they are of proper size in diameter
Z ASMR it may even need to be further than 55 feet, depends, but the point is they secret Juglone, and that keeps a lot of garden plants from growing. If the tree is down the hill from the garden about 80 feet away it's probably OK, but not the other way around. No leaves, nuts are anything can get in the garden or it's a lost cause. You can plant in raised beds the plants that it affects though and it will be fine, as long as no leaves and nuts are in the planters.
YES that is very true. I had that happen to me several times. Once when I severed a black walnut tree root near the base of my wilting tomato plant (which was adequately watered already so that wasn't the problem), it sprung back to life and thrived again.
I once had some walnuts that got buried in the rafters of my garage and I only found them seven yrs later 80 percent of them were still eatable I was amazed and pleased
Ahhhh natures treasures! I rented a house w a Black walnut tree. I waited w anticipation for the peak of their season,only to find one day I came home & someone had harvested ALL the fruits. The outer hulls to me have a pine tupe smell. They can be used as a natural hair dye. Also black walnut hull is one of the 3 required components of a proper anti parasitic
There is a lot of uses for the green husk of the walnut. An old gentleman (his mother was a Native American medicine woman)a long time ago showed me how to use the green husk to cure what we in the south call ground itch. It's something like athlete foot. Another interesting fact is if you best the green nuts up in a burlap bag and put in a stream or pond...the white milky juice will kill fish and they float up to the top (illegal in about every state) so don't try that! LOL
After watching your video on how to use cattail root to make bread (mixed with extenders, although definitely not the goldenrod), I would think adding walnuts and/or berries along with would make them a hardy treat. :D
There is a black walnut tree not too far from my home, we usually just go and pick the ones on the ground and wash them we eat the ones that float right away.. they are really good and taste awesome in oatmeal and cereal snacks or just by themselves.
We are from Michigan. When I was kid, in the fall of the year, my Dad and I would collect black walnuts from the woods, then store them in our garage. They sat for a long time. When we cracked them open, they were really delicious. Made me remember my Dad. Thanks.
When I first moved to the country, I planted a boatload of pecan, almond, and hazelnuts. There are already several dozen walnuts. I gotta say, harvesting and opening nuts is labor intensive.
We use to have a couple of large walnut trees in our yard. We used to collect the walnuts in late Aug and Sep when they fell and place them on our gravel driveway. By about Nov the outer husks were gone and the walnuts were ready to be collected and eaten.
My mom and I would forage black walnuts and do the whole drying, hulling, and everything. And have so many for Christmas desserts. One way we learned how to protect our hands from Some of the stain was by spraying cooking spray on our hands. Bc we would let them go completely black and the stain would sink into the rubber gloves and stain our hands. But I'm very glad to know we should keep them somewhat green. These nuts bring back so many good memories and I always get excited to see a black walnut tree.
Thank you, I live next door to a black walnut tree and have for almost 20 years. Every year it drops hundreds of these things into my yard. Now I know what they are, I will be eating some.
Do what I do! Rune the fresh walnuts over with a car. Then you can peel the skin off. Let the shells dry and separate. Don't worry about washing anything. Let them dry in the sun keeping squirrels awy from them. Crack. puck out the meats and store in a jar and or plastic baggie. They are delicious!!!
I had read in a book about plants that the green outer parts of a walnut can actually be poisonous if thrown into a lake and kill fish around it... Also, thank you for making videos like this! I've been watching so many things about living outdoors and and readig a bit of edible plants and stuff but I needed instructions of how to cook or prep them.
That's way you don't use a plastic bag to ripen fruit, or in this case black walnuts. You should use a paper bag for two to three days. This way you will get the right ripening of the fruit. Which will taste great.👍
We used to have 4 black walnut trees and also a cherry and apple tree. Storms and lightening took most of them... and I can tell you it hurt to walk in the yard lol.. bees under apples that i stepped on and all the walnut shells the squirrels left in the yard. Lol But even though they are all gone now they are still giving us food, now everywhere that has Black Walnut roots grows Morel Mushrooms!
Thank you for the video. I recently bought a property that has black walnut trees and didn't know it until now. I have some edible items already growing and didn't know it!Thanks again.
black walnuts also contain iodine that can be extracted and reduced to make iodine. it isnt as pure and as strong as commercially made iodine. however that would depend on the methods used in obtaining it as to how many ppm you get per drop. due dilligence in researching it is recommended.
Exactly, funny how the poster treats the hulls as complete waste - when they are actually the most medicinal part of the plant. Note how Black Walnut hulls are the main ingredient in most anti-parasite formulas, for example. And, I think its dark brown staining juice is in fact, iodine... wellnessmama.com/257/black-walnut-hull-herb-profile/
Comment is really good for what's missing here in the video. All I did was copy the birds eating the hulls all the time, and I was wondering why they poked at the green hulls. I don't recommend yellowish hulls because I saw this as starting to rot.... you have to find the perfect green stage to do this. Using a carrot peeler, I get shavings and eat them and it is very bitter and turns the tongue green. It turns into a super rush feeling, like some drug without side effects to relax. I don't think it works for everyone because I was able to notice it big time since I had been veggie juice fasting for weeks and more purified. Some say the feeling comes from killing a parasite that makes you a nervous wreck and someone else said it was from a nicotine rush. I have no idea if it's got nicotine in this green shell. I was just copying the birds.
im not sure if you are aware birds can be immune to things that can easily kill you and they also can have a host of very nasty diseases,you might not want to try everything that animals eat.just because they eat it doesn't mean it will not kill you.
rub the juice on ringworm and it will go away. also crushed green ones will poison a pond,and cause fish to float to the top. also makes,great brownish red dye.
patricia tippens I've seen that too in old hulls that got wet.... Don't know what kind of worms it was tho.... I didn't want to touch them lol I'm tough but magot looking worms freak me out 😁
TLC Tammie yes, by the time all the walnuts fall to the ground at my place, they are infested with those worms. We I knew how to prevent it,..what a waste😞
This is extremely common and does not affect the walnut meat inside. It's just eating away at the decomposing hull of the walnut. This is actually a huge help in nature. Just wear gloves while you're hulling the walnuts and you can dispose of the worms with the hulls. Wash/dry the walnuts as usual and you're good to go. Again they don't get through the nut shell so it's not like when peaches get infested with worms. These are just taking advantage of the rotting husk on the shell.
FYI Don't throw the hulls on the ground If you have the following: small dogs/cats horses rabbits or deer They will poison them also don't leave them on the ground the jugolone in it will kill grass
+bryson masters I'm sure he killed his grass dumping out the black water. In my youth people put black walnuts on their driveways. This prevented any grass growing up and removed the outer husks. Then they would have the kids gather them up to dry for a while before cracking them open.
I have several black walnut trees on my property and found the large lime looking nuts a nuisance when they would fall to the ground in the fall.... I really never considered harvesting them. I certainly will do that this year and hopefully be able to enjoy the nuts. Thank you very much for showing me how to do this 😊
Thank you for this video!!! I have a HUGE Black Walnut tree in my back yard and always cussed the walnuts when they fell (many, many, many walnuts!!!). Now, I won't cuss them and throw them out!
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this. Before I watched this, I wouldn't have a clue about their existence. They've now become a winter snack for me.
Same xD it cracks me up that this is in the category of survival skills because it assumes you survive at least like a month before you can eat them! xD
Very interesting. We just planted a black walnut tree about 2 1/2 years ago, and already had some small fruit. Might be big enough next year to give you tips a try. Thanks for posting.
Oh does this bring back memories... my Slovenian grandma would have us pick / collect from her trees.... she would make potica pastry at holidays using these nuts
Here in Missouri we are in Black Walnut country. I have a Aunt who lives in a farm house on the family farm that was built from black walnut wood. The original farm was first settled in 1827 by the old pioneer relative. He first built built a small log cabin from walnut. Next he built a mill at the creek. In 1837 he built a 1200 sq ft house entirely out of black walnut. The house is still standing and in good shape here on the farm in central Missouri. My folks had a mature walnut tree on our property as well. We would gather the nuts and take them to our gravel driveway. We'd dump them on the drive and run over them until the hide was pulverized. Easy peasy. Lord bless you folks. Vaughn
For anyone who like to work with wood or make wooden spoons or wooden eating utensils, walnuts make a great wood dye without chemicals. PS - Try black walnut ice cream if ever given the chance. One of my favs!!!
One of my favorite foods ! My family eat these wonderful foods everyday after school. Mom had to call us inside to get us to stop. I miss our tree. Wish i had another one.
As a kid I was the one who harvested the black walnuts in my family because they were such a pain to shell that most adults wouldn't bother with them. There was a Christmas cookie that my mom made which contained them, a little round golf ball sized powered sugar covered nugget that made it all worth while. Something precious but lost in the past as the last time I tasted those was at least 60 years ago.
That is so cute. I recommend heavy vinyl gloves over at least two pair of latex gloves or your hands will be black for a week Walnut stain is very powerful. I have also kept walnuts for two years they actually take on a better flavor as they age. The thing to remember with walnuts three paper shopping bags filled with walnuts with the husk is less than half of one paper bag of black walnuts without. And dumping water like that on your lawn will kill it walnuts like room to grow so there stain is toxic to other plants
I love black walnuts! My grandfather used to take me out to a place with a few trees and we would gather them up. They make the best banana nut bread ever and black walnut ice cream is great too. Black walnuts are also claimed to be excellent at fighting free radicals.
Thanks for this video! My mom used to collect them in a brown, paper bag when I was growing up in Nebraska. These days I can never find black walnuts in the stores. Occasionally, I find black walnut ice cream which I really like.
I literally throw thousands of this things over the fence every year for critters to munch on. Maybe I'll save a few this fall. Thanks for the great video!
I think it's amazing that the squirrels can tell which nuts are good and which one's aren't. Thanks to those same squirrels I now have many more walnut trees growing on my land than I did when I moved here. I did learn something from your video. I will have to let the nuts dry. They didn't taste very good when I broke them open right after getting the green outside off of them.
Loved this * Thank you for all your time & effort in sharing. I only found your channel recently & have now subscribed.Sending well wishes from Scotland *
My grandparents had a beautiful, huge black walnut tree in their yard. My cousins would harvest and grandma would process them. I love the taste of black walnuts! It’s a bit of an acquired taste, but great in fudge and cookies.
First off, your video was really great for anyone learning about foraging/survivalism etc. In that you spoke clearly and made your points quickly. You gave your audience all the information we needed to identify the wild edible, and when, exactly, to harvest it. Concise and to the point. Well done my friend. (2) This video was somewhat serendipitous in that, I had this strange looking green fruit growing next to my place... lol. Thanks to your video, I now know I can eat the fruit and the fruit is actually BLACK WALNUT! 😀 Perfect. Thank you my friend.
did anybody else notice how trippy the walnut looks as he turns it???
YES, thought it was only me! Some other vid (not related to this) was doing it earlier as well, freaky
yonigs you can use that water for a die for trap and leather.
The way youtube video compression works is that it recognises moving chunks of pixels, and stores those well, but when the chunks change (ie here where the side disappears) the compression doesn't work well, so you get a blurry video.
is it h264 compression? I keep hearing about its magical compression ratios.
looks like a testicle
Black walnuts are the truffles of the nut world.
Also, any banana bread made with black walnuts are insanely good.
Nuts ruin bread and brownies.
The texture is awful lol
May I have the recipe for the banana bread?
I grew up eating black walnuts. My family always harvested the black ones, never green, We never wore gloves to husk them. I was not alone in school with my black hands. Nearly every kind in school had stained hands. I loved the flavor of black walnuts in cookies, ice cream and nut bread.
The green husk can be used as a fish pioson that stun the fishes respiratory system. You fill a mesh potato sack up with husk and rocks. Place the bag upstream of your saining net. The fish will float to the top of the water to your net. You get about five uses out of a bag. Harvest the fish, clean'em then salt'em or smoke"em. It's a good winter store.
Also take them black husk and fill a coffee can half full. Then add linseed oil let it set a week. Take a old potato smasher mash them husk then strain out the husk pieces. You'll have yourself a damn fine high yield wood stain.
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Michael Winemiller if you put the poison upstream from your net wont they just float away also maybe poisoning fish isn’t a great idea
@@elibennett3944 nope its upstream, they die, float downstream and into your net
My Grandmother told me about using black walnuts to get fish too, she said to put a bunch in a gunny sack and crush them (she said they used to run over the sack with the car) Throw it in a pond and wait. She said during the depression they did that a lot.
Don't eat fish but the wood stain tip is fantastic!! I carve all the time and commercially made stain is so expensive. Thanks!
As a kid growing up with black walnuts, I can tell you from experience that they do indeed stain everything. Also, good soap and scrubbing doesn't work, you have to wait a week for it to go away.
It makes a good ink
I basically live in Shenandoah National Park and Black Walnuts are EVERYWHERE!
You can use the darkened water as a dye. Example: rinse your black jeans or tee-shirts in the "dye" with a cup or so of vinegar...let them soak for a day (or two, if you wish), changing their position in the water often....and let them dry completely on a clothesline in fresh air. Repeat the process again if you want a deeper or more even color. Always wash jeans "inside out" in cold water...and hang them "inside out" on the clothesline to prevent too much fading from sunlight.
(I NEVER use an electric dryer....clothes dry for free on a clothesline, and they retain a better texture...just shake them out and fold as you take them off the line. If you use a clothesline your clothing will also last much longer, and stay in better condition. The hot air and tumbling in the dryer breaks down fabrics and wears out your clothes much quicker than actually wearing them will. All that "lint" in your dryer is actually the fibers of your clothing wearing away in the dryer. If you use a clothesline inside your house in the winter/heating season: your household air receives necessary added moisture to keep your skin, hair, and respiratory tract healthier....and the bit of extra humidity in the air helps to keep your home warmer for a longer time. If you use a clothesline...it's a win, win, win!! You save money on your electricity bill...your clothes last longer...and mother earth gets a little break, too.)
~RED ☮♥♫
+blondwiththewind You can also make walnut stain with the black juices.
TrexsterInNC
Didn't I just say that??
Well....a dye and a stain aren't exactly the same thing. :D
TrexsterInNC
Please elaborate....If you are talking about staining wood...that is NOT what you said...BUT I have tea-stained curtains and other fabrics....and they are beautiful. I have also used tea and coffee grounds to make a wood stain...and then urethane over it. I suppose the same thing could done here, BUT watery stains (or dye) used on wood tend to raise the grain on the wood...which means you have to sand it smooth again...which basically takes most of the stain with it. Best to stick with oil based stains for use on wood..
If you want to use it as a stain for wood, soak the green hulls in alchohol.
Had no idea what these were until I watched this video. Used to have trees in my backyard that dropped them everyday, but never tried opening them. What a surprise lol
No joke!
I was in Auburn, NY at the William Seward House Museum, and came across these fruit in their yard.
Next day, your video came up on my feed!
Thank you for doing the video and Thank you NSA, for knowing what I’m doing when not watching UA-cam videos!
🤪
When he was moving the walnut around it was like the trippiest thing.
+ChefCarson seriously!
His camera's on acid
How pathetic to think so.
Ineluctable Smith you're a real buzz killington
Fo Schnizzel this will help👉🤐
Nut Meat
u want dis?
If he says nut meat one more time
You want the nut meat to mature and harden
You want that NUT-MEAT!!!
That stuck right in my head! I was like, OUCH!!!!
walnuts are wonderful, i'm nuts about walnuts, black walnuts are my favorite we had 11 black walnut trees i was in charge of growing up - good video
I grew up gathering and eating black walnuts from the area where I grew up. Watching the video, I could smell the aroma of the green flesh of recently fallen walnuts in my mind. I always liked that smell and loved the flavor of black walnuts. It's still a favorite ice cream flavor (we made homemade black walnut ice cream a couple of times too).
We used to just lay them out in the sun to dry. Never had to wash them - the skins would dry up so much they easily came off leaving no residue on the shell.
4TIMESAYEAR I know what you mean. My Dad used to say that they would pick them and put them on top of the metal roof of the chicken house to dry.
My Dad would take us along the north shore roads on Long Island NY to gather black walnuts every fall. We would lay them out on opened brown paper grocery bags in the attic and let them dry. The outer "fruit" would turn powdery and cold be rubbed off easiiy.
How'd you keep the squirrels away? Inside?
We spread them on the gravel driveway and after a few weeks of driving over them the green outer shells were gone.
These are the best tasting walnuts in the world. We had a beautiful huge tree on the farm beside the mulberry trees. The 5 of us children were so lucky growing up on the 400 acre farm in Nebraska. Very blessed. Thank you God.
me and my bros used to throw thease at each other lol
Dovakin Dragonborn no shirts and the black one is fun u look like ya got arotton spot on ya
The Favorites of The Kid Lazer What did they smell like
they hurt bro
I'm 50+ yrs old & I never knew that was a Walnut from the time I was a kid til now. As kids we would throw them around too. They smelled wierd too. I never asked anyone about it. Well I learned something new today.
And the adults around would watch and start yelling at you to stop so no one would get hurt
I've seen these all around I never knew you could eat them .. Thank so much it's fall now and I'll bet I can find a big bag and get some free food! Thank you so much for teaching us this ..
I guess the smell of walnut fruit is 'citrusy' but it is also astringent smelling, and VERY strong.
Great job on this! Plan to do this in the fall!
The legend himself!
At my grandparents 'farm there were English black walnut trees, and I used to gather them up to take home and husk - sometimes did that while at my Grandparent's place.
Black walnuts are far superior to English walnuts -much better flavor!
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walnut spread (like peanutbutter but made from walnuts)
1 c walnut meat
1 tsp coconut oil
1-3 tsp honey or agave syrup (to taste)
(I use the bullet grinder/blender hubby got me last year for this). First grind the nut meats good. Then add the coconut oil and put on blender attachment a couple pulses at a time and a rubber scraper to stir. Slowly add honey to personal liking, only a couple 2 or 3 pulses on the bullet blender, take lid off, stir with a scraper, attach and blend. keep going until it's all blended together good the consistency of peanut butter.
Growing up, we filled bushel baskets with walnuts from the tree in our back yard, then put in basement and waited for the walnuts to turn black. Then we took outside and stomped on them to remove all the outer flesh, then back to the basement.
Just before Christmas, we would have a craving party - using hangers on the basement floor (there was a walnut oil stain where we did this).
Great memories!
you can use the shells as fire material and the used - colored water as a dye.
Or to tan leather.
Wonderful resource!! 👍👍thx for sharing!!
Great video! :-) And yes, gloves are a MUST... unless you enjoy green stains that turn a nasty shade of brown. LOL Whatever you do, don't pour water off of them anywhere you want other trees to grow. The acidic chemicals prevent other trees from growing within the drip-line of a black walnut. My tribe (the Muscogee Creek Indians) once used the green hulls to fish with. You can net, or bag the fresh, green hulls, and place them across a stream. The chemicals in the hulls will make the fish that are downstream float to the top. :-) My great grandmother made the best black walnut cookies ever! They make great cakes, cookies, candies, etc. Just use them as you would hickory nuts, pecans, or english walnuts. They are well worth the effort it takes to process the meats.
Thanks watermelon for sharing those extra tips and tricks about the black walnut!
Walnut tea can be poured on the ground to gather worms for fishing too. However, it is illegal to use black walnut for gathering worms or fishing in most places in the USA. Check your local laws.
I remember something I saw as a child. There was one of those "local morning talk shows" in which a guest brought in a bag of black walnuts. He showed the hostess how to remove the flesh and she also defleshed a few of the walnuts. A minute or two later while the guest was still talking, you could see her wiping her hands with a tissue. During a break in his conversation she then asked him "How do you get this off your fingers?" The look on her face was priceless when his response was along the lines of "You don't. You just have to wait until it wears off."
"don't pour water off of them anywhere you want other trees to grow."
Not just other trees, definitely don't pour in a garden or grow one of those trees in your yard if you want a garden to grow.
Juglone.
I'm from Turkey and walnuts are one of the things we produce the most. This video reminded me working in those fields. We used to get up early, collect walnuts until almost afternoon, taking a nap and playing with my friends, spending our hard earned good paid salary for the day.
My dad and I used to go to the forest to collect black walnuts every fall. They are a lot more effort than the english walnuts but I liked them a lot more. I do a lot of cooking now and miss those black walnuts.
I have not seen them since moving to Canada's west coast. I did my walnut collecting in Alabama.
Another thing about Black Walnuts is that if you have a tree within 50 feet of a tomato plant, the fruit of the tomato will never ripen, it will rot and fall off the vine long before it has a chance to ripen. Black Walnut trees are also a source of fine furniture wood and also prized as gun stock making too, and as such demands a high dollar amount in lumber yards. Also those that has a lot of Black Walnut trees are sitting on a gold mine if they are of proper size in diameter
No wonder my plants didn't produce tomatos.
Not just tomatoes, a good part of what's grown in a garden. I am planting 5 nut trees in my yard soon, but they won't be black walnut.
Nortekj i guess my grandmas black walnut tree must of been 55 feet from the garden then.
Z ASMR it may even need to be further than 55 feet, depends, but the point is they secret Juglone, and that keeps a lot of garden plants from growing. If the tree is down the hill from the garden about 80 feet away it's probably OK, but not the other way around. No leaves, nuts are anything can get in the garden or it's a lost cause.
You can plant in raised beds the plants that it affects though and it will be fine, as long as no leaves and nuts are in the planters.
YES that is very true. I had that happen to me several times. Once when I severed a black walnut tree root near the base of my wilting tomato plant (which was adequately watered already so that wasn't the problem), it sprung back to life and thrived again.
I once had some walnuts that got buried in the rafters of my garage and I only found them seven yrs later 80 percent of them were still eatable I was amazed and pleased
Ahhhh natures treasures! I rented a house w a Black walnut tree. I waited w anticipation for the peak of their season,only to find one day I came home & someone had harvested ALL the fruits. The outer hulls to me have a pine tupe smell. They can be used as a natural hair dye. Also black walnut hull is one of the 3 required components of a proper anti parasitic
There is a lot of uses for the green husk of the walnut. An old gentleman (his mother was a Native American medicine woman)a long time ago showed me how to use the green husk to cure what we in the south call ground itch. It's something like athlete foot. Another interesting fact is if you best the green nuts up in a burlap bag and put in a stream or pond...the white milky juice will kill fish and they float up to the top (illegal in about every state) so don't try that! LOL
After watching your video on how to use cattail root to make bread (mixed with extenders, although definitely not the goldenrod), I would think adding walnuts and/or berries along with would make them a hardy treat. :D
sounds right
There is a black walnut tree not too far from my home, we usually just go and pick the ones on the ground and wash them we eat the ones that float right away.. they are really good and taste awesome in oatmeal and cereal snacks or just by themselves.
tania nunez lol the ones that float are rotten
Joe Shmo hey, as long as she enjoys them.
lesley canterbury true
Don't eat the flaky hull around the nut meat. Holy crap is it bitter.
Love the outdoor smell of green black walnuts.
When I was a kid, I used to go out with my parents to gather black walnuts in the fall. They were a lot of work, but oh so delicious!
Great video I've got these in my backyard and never knew how to prepare them. Thanks!
I got three decent sized black walnut trees in my back yard I need to try this on this upcoming fall
If they have worms/larva they are fine just get rid of the worms. The worms/larva just use meat to stay safe.
We are from Michigan. When I was kid, in the fall of the year, my Dad and I would collect black walnuts from the woods, then store them in our garage. They sat for a long time. When we cracked them open, they were really delicious. Made me remember my Dad. Thanks.
When I first moved to the country, I planted a boatload of pecan, almond, and hazelnuts. There are already several dozen walnuts. I gotta say, harvesting and opening nuts is labor intensive.
We use to have a couple of large walnut trees in our yard. We used to collect the walnuts in late Aug and Sep when they fell and place them on our gravel driveway. By about Nov the outer husks were gone and the walnuts were ready to be collected and eaten.
Thx1138sober I still do that today. Put them in the driveway and pick them up when they are hulled.
NUT MEAT
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yes i get it....NUT MEAT.....very funny.......
Nut..........meat
i read this exactly when he said it lel
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@@PoochiePookie12 Copied "nut meat"?... I'm sure he wasnt the only one who flew down to comment something about it..
My mom and I would forage black walnuts and do the whole drying, hulling, and everything. And have so many for Christmas desserts. One way we learned how to protect our hands from Some of the stain was by spraying cooking spray on our hands. Bc we would let them go completely black and the stain would sink into the rubber gloves and stain our hands. But I'm very glad to know we should keep them somewhat green. These nuts bring back so many good memories and I always get excited to see a black walnut tree.
Thank you, I live next door to a black walnut tree and have for almost 20 years. Every year it drops hundreds of these things into my yard. Now I know what they are, I will be eating some.
This information is great. I have a farm with lots of black walnut trees. I've never known how to harvest them until now!
+TrexsterInNC Glad I could help! You're lucky to have so many black walnut trees at your disposal.
you can make a good wood stain from the husk and the juice
Agreed
Do what I do! Rune the fresh walnuts over with a car. Then you can peel the skin off. Let the shells dry and separate. Don't worry about washing anything. Let them dry in the sun keeping squirrels awy from them. Crack. puck out the meats and store in a jar and or plastic baggie. They are delicious!!!
I had read in a book about plants that the green outer parts of a walnut can actually be poisonous if thrown into a lake and kill fish around it...
Also, thank you for making videos like this! I've been watching so many things about living outdoors and and readig a bit of edible plants and stuff but I needed instructions of how to cook or prep them.
Great video! Thanks for helping us understand how to harvest black walnuts.
That's way you don't use a plastic bag to ripen fruit, or in this case black walnuts. You should use a paper bag for two to three days. This way you will get the right ripening of the fruit. Which will taste great.👍
You can also save the husks to make a really nice wood stain or clothing dye.
I've been seeing those ever since I was a kid. Never tried one but I think I'm going to go gather a bucketful. Thank you for your informative video.
The Outsider !!! That was an awesome lesson, thank you !!! Truly appreciate it
We used to have 4 black walnut trees and also a cherry and apple tree. Storms and lightening took most of them... and I can tell you it hurt to walk in the yard lol.. bees under apples that i stepped on and all the walnut shells the squirrels left in the yard. Lol But even though they are all gone now they are still giving us food, now everywhere that has Black Walnut roots grows Morel Mushrooms!
I boil the green flesh in spring water; strain; cool; then stain my hair with it. The nuts are delicious months later...a win-win for the piggy bank!
you dye your hair green and consider it a win?its usually a preventable accident in my mind
green hair = do not approach or touch with a 20 foot pole
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 wow you sound super shallow. And the stain turns brown. You're probably a boomer. They're all mostly superficial
Thank you for the video. I recently bought a property that has black walnut trees and didn't know it until now. I have some edible items already growing and didn't know it!Thanks again.
I just found a bunch of black walnut trees and am looking forward to harvesting them! Thanks for the video on how to do that. It was very useful :)
black walnuts also contain iodine that can be extracted and reduced to make iodine. it isnt as pure and as strong as commercially made iodine. however that would depend on the methods used in obtaining it as to how many ppm you get per drop. due dilligence in researching it is recommended.
Exactly, funny how the poster treats the hulls as complete waste - when they are actually the most medicinal part of the plant. Note how Black Walnut hulls are the main ingredient in most anti-parasite formulas, for example. And, I think its dark brown staining juice is in fact, iodine...
wellnessmama.com/257/black-walnut-hull-herb-profile/
The video was not about medicinal uses. It's about "edibles".
I know, but with black walnuts you get a two-fer .
Comment is really good for what's missing here in the video. All I did was copy the birds eating the hulls all the time, and I was wondering why they poked at the green hulls. I don't recommend yellowish hulls because I saw this as starting to rot.... you have to find the perfect green stage to do this. Using a carrot peeler, I get shavings and eat them and it is very bitter and turns the tongue green. It turns into a super rush feeling, like some drug without side effects to relax. I don't think it works for everyone because I was able to notice it big time since I had been veggie juice fasting for weeks and more purified. Some say the feeling comes from killing a parasite that makes you a nervous wreck and someone else said it was from a nicotine rush. I have no idea if it's got nicotine in this green shell. I was just copying the birds.
im not sure if you are aware birds can be immune to things that can easily kill you
and they also can have a host of very nasty diseases,you might not want to try
everything that animals eat.just because they eat it doesn't mean it will not kill you.
rub the juice on ringworm and it will go away. also crushed green ones will poison a pond,and cause fish to float to the top. also makes,great brownish red dye.
good info hun.... hope you have a great day & thank you....
patricia tippens I've seen that too in old hulls that got wet.... Don't know what kind of worms it was tho.... I didn't want to touch them lol I'm tough but magot looking worms freak me out 😁
Russ Cherry great! Then I can use it for my hair, and I do get a seasonal flare up of ringworms on my skin from time to time.
TLC Tammie yes, by the time all the walnuts fall to the ground at my place, they are infested with those worms. We I knew how to prevent it,..what a waste😞
This is extremely common and does not affect the walnut meat inside. It's just eating away at the decomposing hull of the walnut. This is actually a huge help in nature. Just wear gloves while you're hulling the walnuts and you can dispose of the worms with the hulls. Wash/dry the walnuts as usual and you're good to go. Again they don't get through the nut shell so it's not like when peaches get infested with worms. These are just taking advantage of the rotting husk on the shell.
Subscribed. Very well done, a lot of good information without excessive wordiness. Thanks and great job.
Everyday I learn something new. Thanks for sharing.
FYI Don't throw the hulls on the ground If you have the following: small dogs/cats horses rabbits or deer They will poison them also don't leave them on the ground the jugolone in it will kill grass
+bryson masters I'm sure he killed his grass dumping out the black water. In my youth people put black walnuts on their driveways. This prevented any grass growing up and removed the outer husks. Then they would have the kids gather them up to dry for a while before cracking them open.
the husks stink and most animals wont touch em no probs there
gotta worry bout squirrels
I've had these things in my yard for years and didn't know what they were, let alone edible by humans.
All of these videos helped me, thank you.😊😊
I have several black walnut trees on my property and found the large lime looking nuts a nuisance when they would fall to the ground in the fall.... I really never considered harvesting them. I certainly will do that this year and hopefully be able to enjoy the nuts. Thank you very much for showing me how to do this 😊
My home shares the land with 2 300 year old Black Walnuts. Every other year the drop.
I dint know walnut trees live 2,300 years. Yowza.
They'll stain your clothes, they're hard to crack & squirrels steal them off your back porch.
perfect! squirrel meat. lay some traps.
Thank you for this video!!! I have a HUGE Black Walnut tree in my back yard and always cussed the walnuts when they fell (many, many, many walnuts!!!). Now, I won't cuss them and throw them out!
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this. Before I watched this, I wouldn't have a clue about their existence. They've now become a winter snack for me.
I thought ah, I have these in my backyard...
*a few moments later*
ohh they take months to prepare, well nvm then.
Same xD it cracks me up that this is in the category of survival skills because it assumes you survive at least like a month before you can eat them! xD
The good thing is patience can be learned
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Very interesting. We just planted a black walnut tree about 2 1/2 years ago, and already had some small fruit. Might be big enough next year to give you tips a try. Thanks for posting.
Very nice video, contained very useful info. Now i can harvest black walnuts from the tree in my own backyard.
I thought he was gonn eat it to get hihg
If you didnt break these open and stain the crap out of your hands as a kid you didnt have an actual childhood
W h e e z e sling shot ammo
I always thought they was poop lmao
Oh does this bring back memories... my Slovenian grandma would have us pick / collect from her trees.... she would make potica pastry at holidays using these nuts
Here in Missouri we are in Black Walnut country. I have a Aunt who lives in a farm house on the family farm that was built from black walnut wood. The original farm was first settled in 1827 by the old pioneer relative. He first built built a small log cabin from walnut. Next he built a mill at the creek. In 1837 he built a 1200 sq ft house entirely out of black walnut. The house is still standing and in good shape here on the farm in central Missouri. My folks had a mature walnut tree on our property as well. We would gather the nuts and take them to our gravel driveway. We'd dump them on the drive and run over them until the hide was pulverized. Easy peasy. Lord bless you folks. Vaughn
Nut meat
nut meat lmao
fucking nut meat xD
For anyone who like to work with wood or make wooden spoons or wooden eating utensils, walnuts make a great wood dye without chemicals.
PS - Try black walnut ice cream if ever given the chance. One of my favs!!!
One of my favorite foods ! My family eat these wonderful foods everyday after school. Mom had to call us inside to get us to stop. I miss our tree. Wish i had another one.
nut meat..
Not worth all the trouble. Graft an English walnut onto the black and you will have wonderful clean nuts....
then it wouldn't be foraged, would it now?
Then it would be wild
As a kid I was the one who harvested the black walnuts in my family because they were such a pain to shell that most adults wouldn't bother with them. There was a Christmas cookie that my mom made which contained them, a little round golf ball sized powered sugar covered nugget that made it all worth while. Something precious but lost in the past as the last time I tasted those was at least 60 years ago.
Might have been a russian tea cake cookie. My family makes them with pecans. A simple recipe, you can find many versions online.
Excellent video, answered a lot of my questions
That is so cute. I recommend heavy vinyl gloves over at least two pair of latex gloves or your hands will be black for a week Walnut stain is very powerful. I have also kept walnuts for two years they actually take on a better flavor as they age. The thing to remember with walnuts three paper shopping bags filled with walnuts with the husk is less than half of one paper bag of black walnuts without. And dumping water like that on your lawn will kill it walnuts like room to grow so there stain is toxic to other plants
I love black walnuts! My grandfather used to take me out to a place with a few trees and we would gather them up. They make the best banana nut bread ever and black walnut ice cream is great too. Black walnuts are also claimed to be excellent at fighting free radicals.
Thank you for the demonstration and explanation.
Thanks for this, I just bought a house with a hundred year old black walnut tree. I had no idea what to do with them until watching this.
Looking into starting an Orchard, so this will help if I go with Walnuts. Thanks for the video!
I love black walnuts. Dad and I picked up bags of them in the fall.
There are a surprising number of ways to use them in cooking.
Thanks for sharing. We just bought a farm with several black walnut trees on it. Looking forward to trying them out.
Thanks for this video! My mom used to collect them in a brown, paper bag when I was growing up in Nebraska. These days I can never find black walnuts in the stores. Occasionally, I find black walnut ice cream which I really like.
I love the smell of a walnut when it has the outer shell. That black shell mixed with water or alcohol makes a great dye(for clothes or even hair)
Thank you. I appreciate how you presented the information.
I literally throw thousands of this things over the fence every year for critters to munch on. Maybe I'll save a few this fall. Thanks for the great video!
I think it's amazing that the squirrels can tell which nuts are good and which one's aren't. Thanks to those same squirrels I now have many more walnut trees growing on my land than I did when I moved here. I did learn something from your video. I will have to let the nuts dry. They didn't taste very good when I broke them open right after getting the green outside off of them.
Loved this * Thank you for all your time & effort in sharing. I only found your channel recently & have now subscribed.Sending well wishes from Scotland *
Holly schmolly !! The thing you learn , I've been throwing these away in the green waste bin in my back lawn . Thanks for the vid.
My grandparents had a beautiful, huge black walnut tree in their yard. My cousins would harvest and grandma would process them. I love the taste of black walnuts! It’s a bit of an acquired taste, but great in fudge and cookies.
Thank you for such great info.
Growing up we had a tree that we would get them, Now where I work we have 3 trees I will be doing your ideas this fall. Thanks for the tips
Excellent video. Thank you.
amazing, i have a walnut tree and never knew how to process them , thank you
First off, your video was really great for anyone learning about foraging/survivalism etc. In that you spoke clearly and made your points quickly. You gave your audience all the information we needed to identify the wild edible, and when, exactly, to harvest it.
Concise and to the point. Well done my friend.
(2) This video was somewhat serendipitous in that, I had this strange looking green fruit growing next to my place... lol. Thanks to your video, I now know I can eat the fruit and the fruit is actually BLACK WALNUT! 😀
Perfect. Thank you my friend.
A nut is not fruit, but of course you knew that already.