Wow 😮 that’s nuts! 😊 we harvest about 70 gallons of black walnuts from our mature trees this fall. Still got more to get off the ground. Happy harvesting friends and thanks for all the inspiration
A weak crop of black walnuts up here in Ontario zone 5b of the trees I've observed (or last year was a great crop of squirrels). Still excited to see the young ones grow, and have a lot stored from last year still. Thanks once again for the useful video on processing this very underrated crop!
I'm from Toronto and yes very few trees have produced, the few I have collected have been from a handful of trees, most have few if not any. Last year was my first season collecting and there was plenty, very interesting.
I really love the way you load down that little car more than the average pickup truck driving around ha! Reminds me of the old pictures of model t jalopies stacked to the gills with food going to market
Yep! We do that too, and have in the past. This year we tried a different route that feels good enough and pretty darn fast (and less water, the other way is lovely but super watery!)
I just made a black walnut tincture this year. Black walnuts are my favorite nut. They have the most flavor of all the nuts I have tried and I just love them. I may try a black walnut extract for baking this year also. They are a amazing nut from a beautiful tree
@@edibleacres they are a pain to crack and pick but they definitely are worth it! Nothing tastes as good as a banana black walnut bread and a cup of tea for breakfast or snack.
This has really made me rethink how I should plant out the numerous Chinese Chestnuts I have ready to field grow. We built your air prune beds and grew hundreds of chestnuts that need transplanting to the field this fall. My experience is in food forest growing in a dense tangle of plants. That is working well for fruit, but will I regret planting dozens of chestnuts that way instead of on a mat of grass?
I’m glad to know that having maggots in the hull doesn’t spoil them. Do you plan to sell seedlings from the cultivar seed? Or seed from the cultivars? Do you happen to remember the names of the cultivars?
Sparrow, Sauber 1, one we call 'Timber', a few other I can't remember right now but we will be offering different ones for folks who are interested... We plan to grow them out as named types as well to offer seedlings fall 25...
@@edibleacres the more I learn about tree crops the more I’m excited about the nutty fat producing cultivars. Walnut, hickory/pecan, and hazel!! I took your recommendation and connected with Cliff a bit this year. Dude has a crazy repository of plant material.
Really cool, I like the shelf dehusker. I've just been rolling a bread knife down the center and the stirring them in a bucket of water with a stick and spraying everything off after draining. Got them drying in paper bags and cardboard boxes on top of the fridge. Nowhere near the amount you guys have done, but I'm still happy about it. Foraging nuts is the best, so satisfying, I feel like a human animal in the best way possible when forgaing real sustenance. The pecan trees in Springdale, UT were so fun to harvest, much easier than goopy walnuts, and so tasty. You could easily get fat just from foraged pecans there when they are in season, absurd abundance getting smashed on the sidewalks. Some toursits grab one here and there, but most remain blind to it.
We are animals and humans and nature, it's a nice medley, especially when you fold in the opposable thumbs upgrade! Pecans are rad, I'm hopeful we send out enough northern hardy ones to help many folks have them in their lives in the future!
Its interesting this came up in my feed. This is the first year we collected them for - ultimately, Hammond Nuts but I brought a large amount to a hulling station about 2 hrs north of us. It was an Amish farm. They did use a gas powered huller. All this was a new experience for me. We had such a large harvest this year that you couldnt walk in certain areas of our 5 acre parcel. They are black walnuts, I dont know how to tell the type. The man at the hulling station said they were very nice nuts. They had a team of horses standing by to take the wagon full of hulls out to the field. It paid very little $12/100 lbs after hulling. But we were very glad to bring - after hulling 175lbs of nuts.I also hear you can burn them for heat. We are going to try that this winter mixed with wood. Not sure what else we would use them for . They are super hard to crack. Do you know some sort of trick to opening them easily? We are located in Northern Illinois right on the Wisconsin border. Absolutely huge amount of nuts this year and I didnt have a nut wizard - I didnt even know the tool existed. I ordered one for next year. 😃 Thank you for this interesting video.
We have to share some more videos on how to crack black walnuts without any fancy tools, that is much needed... Thanks for sharing your fall experience with all of us!
thank you for your video- You got yourself a new sub! I have a lady who is giving us all the walnuts we can gather from under her tree. How do you tell what kind of walnut variety it would be? She said she has no idea.
If you had a bit more space, would it be worth also grabbing a few bags of leaves at the same time? Also, what are those green shoots popping up around the walnut trees? They seem pretty vigorous.
I was a judge at the science fair where the kid who invented the nut wizard first presented it. I'm glad it took off for him.
That's really cool
Wow 😮 that’s nuts! 😊 we harvest about 70 gallons of black walnuts from our mature trees this fall. Still got more to get off the ground. Happy harvesting friends and thanks for all the inspiration
A weak crop of black walnuts up here in Ontario zone 5b of the trees I've observed (or last year was a great crop of squirrels). Still excited to see the young ones grow, and have a lot stored from last year still. Thanks once again for the useful video on processing this very underrated crop!
I'm from Toronto and yes very few trees have produced, the few I have collected have been from a handful of trees, most have few if not any. Last year was my first season collecting and there was plenty, very interesting.
Thank you sean. You are awesome. Another great update on how to make life easier on the farm. ❤
I really love the way you load down that little car more than the average pickup truck driving around ha! Reminds me of the old pictures of model t jalopies stacked to the gills with food going to market
A harvesting and processing video! Thank you so much for filling my request. More like this please!
Making me hungry for some walnuts. Love this channel, so much practical advice.
Thank you for showing your method. Please do show us the rest of the story.
I use a drill and paint mixer in a bucket of water to husk them. It takes a lot of water but they are beautifully clean.
Yep! We do that too, and have in the past. This year we tried a different route that feels good enough and pretty darn fast (and less water, the other way is lovely but super watery!)
Haha how perfect! I have a bunch of walnuts that I need to figure out how to process and here's your video.
Thank you!!
What an amazing harvest! This is amazing. 🤩
We agree!
Wow cool stuff! Cheers
I just made a black walnut tincture this year. Black walnuts are my favorite nut. They have the most flavor of all the nuts I have tried and I just love them. I may try a black walnut extract for baking this year also. They are a amazing nut from a beautiful tree
So great you love them because boy o boy are they around!
@@edibleacres they are a pain to crack and pick but they definitely are worth it! Nothing tastes as good as a banana black walnut bread and a cup of tea for breakfast or snack.
Love it..I have 1 tree in my yard so many nuts
Great video thanks!
This has really made me rethink how I should plant out the numerous Chinese Chestnuts I have ready to field grow. We built your air prune beds and grew hundreds of chestnuts that need transplanting to the field this fall. My experience is in food forest growing in a dense tangle of plants. That is working well for fruit, but will I regret planting dozens of chestnuts that way instead of on a mat of grass?
Black walnut season is upon us 🙌
I’m glad to know that having maggots in the hull doesn’t spoil them.
Do you plan to sell seedlings from the cultivar seed? Or seed from the cultivars?
Do you happen to remember the names of the cultivars?
Sparrow, Sauber 1, one we call 'Timber', a few other I can't remember right now but we will be offering different ones for folks who are interested...
We plan to grow them out as named types as well to offer seedlings fall 25...
@@edibleacres the more I learn about tree crops the more I’m excited about the nutty fat producing cultivars. Walnut, hickory/pecan, and hazel!!
I took your recommendation and connected with Cliff a bit this year. Dude has a crazy repository of plant material.
@@edibleacres sparrow and sauber 1 are ones I’ve not seen available other places. Great find!
Really cool, I like the shelf dehusker. I've just been rolling a bread knife down the center and the stirring them in a bucket of water with a stick and spraying everything off after draining. Got them drying in paper bags and cardboard boxes on top of the fridge. Nowhere near the amount you guys have done, but I'm still happy about it. Foraging nuts is the best, so satisfying, I feel like a human animal in the best way possible when forgaing real sustenance. The pecan trees in Springdale, UT were so fun to harvest, much easier than goopy walnuts, and so tasty. You could easily get fat just from foraged pecans there when they are in season, absurd abundance getting smashed on the sidewalks. Some toursits grab one here and there, but most remain blind to it.
We are animals and humans and nature, it's a nice medley, especially when you fold in the opposable thumbs upgrade!
Pecans are rad, I'm hopeful we send out enough northern hardy ones to help many folks have them in their lives in the future!
I didn't even know there were cold hardy pecans!!!
cool vid
Do you have any processing videos for English walnuts? I seem to recall that you sell trees for these. Thx.
They require no processing, it's crazy! We just collect!
Its interesting this came up in my feed. This is the first year we collected them for - ultimately, Hammond Nuts but I brought a large amount to a hulling station about 2 hrs north of us. It was an Amish farm. They did use a gas powered huller. All this was a new experience for me. We had such a large harvest this year that you couldnt walk in certain areas of our 5 acre parcel. They are black walnuts, I dont know how to tell the type. The man at the hulling station said they were very nice nuts. They had a team of horses standing by to take the wagon full of hulls out to the field. It paid very little $12/100 lbs after hulling. But we were very glad to bring - after hulling 175lbs of nuts.I also hear you can burn them for heat. We are going to try that this winter mixed with wood. Not sure what else we would use them for . They are super hard to crack. Do you know some sort of trick to opening them easily? We are located in Northern Illinois right on the Wisconsin border. Absolutely huge amount of nuts this year and I didnt have a nut wizard - I didnt even know the tool existed. I ordered one for next year. 😃 Thank you for this interesting video.
We have to share some more videos on how to crack black walnuts without any fancy tools, that is much needed...
Thanks for sharing your fall experience with all of us!
thank you for your video- You got yourself a new sub! I have a lady who is giving us all the walnuts we can gather from under her tree. How do you tell what kind of walnut variety it would be? She said she has no idea.
This is great. So much potential in each and every tree! I would totally help.
I hate walnuts.
Haha more for everyone else!
If you had a bit more space, would it be worth also grabbing a few bags of leaves at the same time?
Also, what are those green shoots popping up around the walnut trees? They seem pretty vigorous.
Leaves are always worth grabbing when there is space! Not sure about the shoots
@@edibleacres - Could they be dandelions? If so, I hear that they make for great deep-rooted dynamic accumulators.
Do the squirrels not get them?
How true to type are walnut seeds?
I can't say for sure, I suspect there is some drifting for sure but worth starting with known good parents to grow out from seed I'd say
@edibleacres absolutely. Thank you. My tree nursery is built around concepts I got from you, akiva and buzz. It works really well!