How to Harvest and Shell Black Walnuts
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2016
- This is the easiest way I've found on how to remove the hull and crack black walnuts. Learn how to identify the trees and nuts, then the easiest method to process the black walnut fruit.
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I used to think that buying nuts from the store was expensive, but after seeing all the time and labor that goes into them, the price doesn't seem so bad. Great video!
They have machines for most of the hard work.
@@user-bb3je8il1cI think commercial Walnuts are from English Walnut trees..... 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦
I feel the same way about
Baking~as I buy
Expensive exotic
Flours---millet; quinoa; coconut etc. *It cost me image of expense to make a loaf of bread!"
@@regenamann_0005 was trying to be a smart ass now that I have reread it, I could have said that different lol have a great night
My wife and I just confirmed that that nuisance tree with those nasty citrus fruits are in fact valued Black Walnut trees. We’ve lived in Ohio for 25 years and only now come to realize this thanks to the NextDoor app and some kind neighbors. I’m ready to cut open some of these and try my luck at processing them. Thanks for the video...hulling the nuts was the part that many keep leaving out.
You are welcome, Mark. They are tasty. My grandmother used to put a piece of a black walnut on her Christmas sandtart cookies.
I remember doing this as a child. We would pick up black walnuts on the side of the road. We usually got a couple of bushel baskets full. It was our job to peel and shell them. My mom made a lot of good things with them, though. Thanks for sharing this, it brought back a lot of memories.
In 1962 (age 12) I spent 6 weeks with a family in France about an hour out of Paris. Their little farm was called "Les Broux", which meant something like "juice of the walnuts". They made a potent after-dinner liqueur out of the walnuts, harvesting them in July when they were small and tender. They quartered the whole nut, husk and all, using a penknife, and added them to a mixture of grain alcohol (and I think some red table wine), water, tea leaves, and sugar in a large covered barrel. They stirred the fermenting mixture every day, and after a few months, strained the liquid. Once aged, the product was jet black and clear, and extremely strong. I can't describe the taste other than sweet with strong tannins (at 12, I didn't have much frame of reference).
Thanks for that interesting story. That must have been potent, as you say. And I am only two years behind you in age.
Now that would be a video I could really get behind
My Grandpa used to give us a large burlap sack full of walnuts to take home. He had a lot of trees! I never knew how much work it was processing them.😮❤😊
Thank you for the helpful video. I have 9 Black Walnut Trees and 5 Hickory Trees on our property here in West Virginia. It's the first week of October. You can hear the nuts falling all over the place. I'm teaching my 8yo Grand Daughter that the trees are giving us free food. She set up her Bench and Sandbox and started husking with me. She named her "Store" The Nut Palace....
That's so cute. She is going to have a fond memory of her time spent with you.
I earn my living growing and gathering foods for a handful of fancy restaurants. Black walnuts are one of my fall/winter staple products, so I am doing this on a small commercial scale. I handle the black walnuts almost the same way as shown here with one big improvement on the vise--I finally invested in a Grandpa's Goody Getter, and it speeds up the cracking incredibly. If you can get your hands on one, you can crack the hardest nuts quickly and in quantity. I don't know if they are still for sale/being made and full disclosure, I have no ties whatsoever to the maker. I also crack hickory nuts with it. It has made a big difference in my fall season income as well as being a lot easier on my hands and arms.
www.grandpasgoodygetter.com/
Thanks for the helpful comments. The contribution to the video is appreciated.
They were still being made about a year ago. I use mine for all kinds of nuts, from hazel nuts and pecans to the largest walnuts. It works very well.
@@BeachsideHank very nice video !
Those nuts are almost impossible to break open without destroying the meat inside
Is there any use for the husks? They seem to have a strong dye that might be useful.
What a process!!! There’s a couple of trees in our back yard and I thought about harvesting them, but now I’m just thinking I’ll let the wildlife have them, unless I get desperate. Thanks for the info. Good thorough video!
Excellent instructional video. Clear and to the point. I hate when people are too wordy. You made this so clear to understand and covered all the important points. I have a tremendous harvest of black walnut and may just try this now.
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Boy this brings back memories of my Grandfather teaching us grand children to do all of this fifty years ago!
Out on Uncle Louie's farm there were hundreds of Black Walnut trees that we harvested from and hunted in those pristine 200 acres.
A great memory.
yeah i can remember my dad showing me when i was little... we had a tree but we never really harvested them but since he did when he was a kid he showed me how... they are seriously messy though and will stain your hands for a long time.
Counting our next door neighbors tree, I grew up helping 'harvest English Walnuts from 3 trees yearly. We waited for the rains to start causing them to drop. If the tree was ready you would see the hulls splitting open before they hit the ground. When the amounts falling daily, start increasing, my Dad would get his long 'limb trimmer' out. Without cutting the branches, he'd grab hold of one and shake it bring any more ready to drop down , hopefully breaking the nuts away from the green outer shell...then like you did... remove and wash the rest of the of the green off. With not much sun in the Fall in Oregon, our walnuts were laid out on old window screens - in the basement, in two different attic spaces, and in the area/ room at the top of the stairs on the second floor. I don't remember any being set up in our bedrooms but they would be all over the house, including the hallway on the first floor. And it seemed to me they were left drying for at least a month, my brother and I got to keep the nuts regularly turned and rolled around during the drying time. After that we used a nutcracker to open the shells.
I discovered long ago that if you wash the walnuts, then pour the water on an area of grass, the night-crawlers will come shooting out of the ground. Collect them and rinse them off, they will be good for fishing.
Also I know that walnut trees and tomato plants do not co-exist
It’s illegal in all states, but if you pour the husks, the water (leaves work too) into a small pool of a fish containing stream, all the fish will float up and you can easily grab them with just your hands. If it is a faster flowing stream, they will recover pretty fast. This works best in a larger pool of slow moving streams, creeks or branch. Like I said tho, it IS illegal but is also a good thing to know in a survival situation or if the world continues to go sideways.
@@GrumpyGenXGramps that’s amazing!
Can you elaborate on walnut trees and tomato plants not co-existing? I've been having problems with my tomato plants and there happen to be walnut trees that loom over.
@@brianedwards5113 There is a chemical in the rind that can leach into the soil killing or stunting the growth of some plants
My grandmother had us dump all the hulls on the gravel drive way leading to the house, and than pick up the dehulled shells prior to to first snow. Then the cracking would commence. If we wanted wallnuts in fudge for Xmas we had to earn it.
Yeah we would sack up hundreds and when hull turned black we would dump out on gravel road an d he would roll over them. We put our gloves on ans rubb them clean then dry them
Great video! I find it's much faster just to roll each one under a heavy boot until the seed pops out, then throw it in a 5 gallon bucket with the others (once you've stomped on a bunch). When the bucket is about 1/5 full, swish them around with water and they come out extremely clean (they are abrasive and scratch the meat off each other when being swirled aroun)!
I have just recently learned about natural walnuts from the wild. I had never seen them like this. I have begun harvesting them and now have learned an easy process to shell and clean them for an attractive appearance. At first it was a tedious process but I have mastered my own technique and now it is a lot of fun. I am now giving away packages of black walnuts as gifts. Black is really beautiful!!!
Meant to say that I have learned an easy process to remove the husks, remove the inside residue and clean them up for a beautiful attractive appearance. Well with it! Not so difficult once you learn a quick technique.
Any chance you want to share your method? This is the first year I’ve collected any from my yard and now I’m in the trial and error phase! Oh boy!
I crack in the vice the same way. One thing I like is that you got the beautiful walnut trees from below, a nice sight.
Interesting and informative. I am in New England, and I've got several large black walnut trees at the edge of my yard.
Never a better tasting vanilla ice cream complement.
no narrative no nonsense! nice work for real thanks. No big story or pics of your dog or any of that.. actual information.
You are welcome. I try not to waste your time.
Curing 4-6 weeks is just in time for Christmas cookies. Black Walnut cookies are my favorite
My Grandma used to have me pick them up off the ground underneath the tree when the outer hulls had turned dark. Still had to wear gloves so our hands wouldn't get stained. She made the best black walnut cake with them!
Do you have the recipe? Sounds like a great family recipe to share
Just a quick note if you use a bucket of water to clean the nuts any that float are usually bad and not worth the time to process !!!
Thanks that was gonna be my questions.funny that the squirrels know which ones have nut inside
So, we treat it like gourd seeds? Sinkers are all goodm floaters won't produce a plant next sow time?
Also the water can be use to get fishing worms!
best information on black walnuts … thank you for this video
Excellent detailed, instructor video! Thank you for taking the time to share it with the world!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
The diagonal pliers work great - thanks! After hulling, a spiral drill bit for stirring paint is a good way to agitate the nuts.
Thank you for the information, I have used the husks to make wood stain and dyes. The wood is beautiful when used in making furniture and is a nice hard wood. I also like the nuts in ice cream with a bit of toffee.
Im just getting started. Theres some great advice here. Thanks for sharing. My whole yard is black walnut trees. I had no idea till now theyre edible
exactly what I was hoping to find...great job & thank you!
Thanks for the compliment, Scott, it's always good to hear that the video is helpful. I've been looking at the walnuts during my walks in the local park, it won't be long before the nuts will be falling from the trees.
Great video. Thanks, 60 years ago when I was just a little fella my grand mother would gather the walnuts into the gravel driveway and when the cars ran over them the hulls were removed from the nut shell. But like I say that was 60 years ago and the cars had different tires that were more balloon like. But it worked great. After a few days she would just gather the nuts, shell them and she made the best cakes with those walnuts.
Good to hear you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the compliment and telling about a fond memory.
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Papa Steve I remember hand cranked black walnut ice cream . That was so good .
Thats the way my dad did it
Use them ground shells to put in paint you are painting stairs or decks on boats. You let it dry and you will never slip.
When I was younger, my Dad and me used to go next door to our neighbor's house (after asking her permission) to collect black walnuts out of her yard.
My Dad's mother used to make Black Walnut Cake.
He always wanted to make it but didn't know how.
We collected black walnuts and a friend of his made Black Walnut Cake.
I thought it was pretty good.
I just recently collected some black walnuts to try and make Black Walnut Cake.
I used to watch my Dad husk the walnuts.
He would wear thick gloves because the outer shell once cut open, would stain whatever you are wearing.
Then he would take a hammer and break open the shell to get the walnuts.
Great video.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for sharing the memory. I've never had Black Walnut Cake, reading the comments, it seems that it was a favorite for many people. My grandmother made Christmas cookies (Sandtarts) and put a piece of a black walnut in the center of each cookie.
I had no idea! thanks for an informative video. I now appreciate the process of harvesting walnuts more.
You are welcome. Harvesting black walnuts is a lot of work, that's why they more expensive than the English Walnuts. There are some processing plants in the mid west for commercial growers.
I have found it's 10 times faster, just training a group of squirrels to do all this for me. I pay them for their work with peanuts...
And you are keeping those squirrels out of the bird feeder. Brilliant! Hee Hee, thanks for the humor Tom.
Tom Champman ,lol. You can also let the squirrels eat the nuts and harvest the squirrels .you can empty their stomachs and have crushed walnuts along with meat.Its a win win.
Or you can make squirrel pot pie! lol!
Tom Champman hilarious! My squirrels taunt me by leaving the shells on my deck
I do the opposite to my squirrels😂
Here in Ontario we just wait for a couple of frosts then the husk turnes to mush.
Just processed my second batch of the year today! We have about 6 smaller trees and one older one on our property and these poor trees and bending and snapping from how heavy they’ve been carrying this year. Squirrels are in heaven!
Best video on this subject. Thanks!
You are welcome, Christine!
The black gunky walnuts that look bad are alright to harvest. They look bad, but they are perfectly good. I actually prefer them since they are very easy to hull.
I was trying to show last year's dried up nuts. In hindsight, I should have pointed that out. Some people do prefer to let the hulls turn black. I chose to show removing the green hulls, that is the preferred way by professional growers. Either way is fine, it's a personal preference.
They also have the most protein of any tree nut
The black gunky walnuts produce a stronger flavored nutmeat, which most people don't care for. If you hull green walnuts and wash them, you can process them immediately or dry them and hull them later, but they'll have a milder flavor with few or no bitter nutmeats. But, it's a question of personal preference and taste.
@@marknussbaum8394 Thanks! I always wondered why some walnuts tasted bitter.
@@beckywebb1916 , i always wondered about that too. So i never cared for walnuts as they were always bitter when i had them. Now i know why. There are places that will hull them for you n keep the hulls to make iodine.
If you wait, the hulls turn black, rot and are loose. rub them off. let nuts dry for 6-8 weeks or more. the nutmeaty shrink a little from the shell , a little easier to get out. I have given away 13 brown grocery bags so far, and have kept 3 for myself. one tree. other tree, very few. used to dye stuff as a child, now it is just my fingers!
We have a walnut tree in our yard and my husband is going to follow your instructions. Thank you.
You are welcome. I just came back from a walk and saw they are starting to drop from the trees.
this was so informative, id want this lady with me in a apocalypse!
I haven't been near a walnut tree in many years. But just watching this video immediately reminded me of that distinctive odor they have. I could smell it through the video, lol.
Iodine.
Trust me when i say i have been eating these all my life, they make the best divinity in the world hands down. Now the ones that were black and you said no good are in fact good, the best way to prepare them is pick them up put them in a bucket and let them turn black and dry up then you just put some gloves on and roll them in your hands and the husk will just fall off, then clean them with a brush. Next crack them with a hammer and let them sit for a while in a dry place then finish getting the nuts out that's the hard part lol.
I think you are missing the point, the dried up black walnut in the video is from the prior year. It's no good, the squirrels didn't pick it up either. If you took the time to crack it open there will be no nut. I'm showing an obviously bad nut. I'm not arguing that your way is wrong.... just trying to show a nut you shouldn't waste your time cracking.
@@Diane_R walnuts like that are usually good down here, we pick them all up and if we crack a bad one we discard it, all I was saying is just because it's black don't mean it's not any good lol if I pick one up and it feels really light I will throw it away
That's how my neighbor use to do them too, but he used a small vice to crack them. A vice doesn't shoot shells or whack fingers, LOL
@@Alwis-Haph-Rytte lol I know about the finger whacking, them are some tough nuts lol
Bro please 😫🙏🙏💓 tell me that Black walnuts tatse good than English or Californian walnuts????
thank you for taking the time to make this video. I will remember this if I'm starving, and my Walmart isn't open. I've heard cashews and macadamia nuts are even more difficult to crack from their armored casing.
I don't know about cashews or macadamia nuts, but Brazil nuts are a real pain to crack (since I don't like them, I don't care, but my mom seems to like them).
I was 3/4 into this video before I realized who you are and it is your voice and presentation that tipped me you are a retired school teacher I love your videos you guide students well thank you
I'm not a retired school teacher, some people think I'm Jodie Foster too! lol. Thanks for watching the video and the compliment.
Omg that is so much work! No wonder they’re so expensive in the store.
Harvesting is a bitch too. We don't have this exact species of walnut where I live but around here we hit the nuts hanging on the tree with long sticks, and oftentimes we have to climb the tree to get to the rest of them. Then just pick them from the ground.
@@wendelltidwell830 You should show us a link to your website...then we can check it out.
They have machines to do all that.
i bet that brazilian walnuts are picked by people getting one dollar per hour, it is the middle man making all the peanut butter.......
@@ronvalley1973 - Hey Ronnie- Because of currency difference, $1 could be a lot of money in some countries but yes that is still not enough for labors
Thank you! I've got a couple black walnuts and the fruit is dropping. When I was a kid, we had an English walnut tree by the horse arena. My horse would break those open for my dog who patiently waited. It was hilarious to watch but not so wise to interfere with their bonding moments
You are welcome. Wish I could have soon your dog and horse. lol.
@@Diane_R manifesting ^_^
outstanding I had forgotten exactly how (my mother showed this to me when I was a kid back in the 60's) Now I can go and harvest the walnut trees here this year.. Vancouver washington
Thanks for sharing the memory.
Thanks! Definitely an acquired taste. We planted one for my Dad and he has since passed away. Didn’t get any nuts. So I am refinishing his desk and using some walnut stain from the hulls and the rest for ink. So much work. Grandma always made banana bread with black walnuts. Broke a tooth on a hull. But I’ll try to make one for old times sake.
You are welcome. Sorry to hear of your Dad's passing. It seems that many of us have memories of baked goods made with these nuts. My grandmother made Christmas sandtarts that had a piece of Black Walnut pressed into the middle.
i planted a tree in my yard when I was 6 im now 50 and the tree is about 130 feet tall im going to try this for the first time.
That's cool, you have a very special tree. I was out for a walk in my local park and saw a couple of the walnuts have dropped to the ground.
I pour about 50 gallons in my driveway and we just drive over them for several weeks. When the husks turn are black and dry i just pick the nuts up from around them and put them in a bucket.
Great video. Thanks for the information . Very helpful.
The farm ladies near our small town used to scatter the unhulled walnuts in the driveway and drive back and forth over them to split the hulls, some labor saving there. We could always tell who had been working with walnuts by the brown stains on their hands. We were happy to get some of the final product to put on home made ice cream. Yum!
I love the tip for using a bench vise. I knew that in the 1800s the brown water from soaking leftover green skins was used to make hair dye and then happened to find a lock in an old family Bible so I'm pretty sure that's what it is. I used the dye on some white doilies and they came out a beautiful ecru color. I'm ready to harvest mine now so this has been very helpful. Black walnuts, especially with chocolate, are ambrosia to me. Thank you.
You are welcome. I've never tried making dye. Since walnut trees and the brown water is supposed to be toxic to some plants, I've experimented and dumped the brown water on some weeds. The weeds just laughed. I've read that a lot of native plants aren't bothered by the toxins.
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I wouldn't use the dye on my own hair or something that would come into bodily contact a lot because of the toxins, but other things probably wouldn't be bad. Common sense being key.
I live in Iowa and bought a house with a walnut tree. I'm new to this kind of tree and I'm not sure if it is a black walnut, but is the process the same?
Excellent video!
I collected 3 bushels of black walnuts last year, hulled them, scrubbed them clean individually, let them dry out for about 2 days, then put them in 5 gallon buckets to wait until I could hear them rattle when you shake one (as another video I watched said to do) to crack some open and enjoy them.
Not a single one ever rattled (meaning that the nut was no longer still a jelly like state). Finally, out of curiosity, i cracked a couple open about a month ago, late August/early Sept only to discover they've apparently gone bad. They don't taste very good.
I think I made a couple mistakes:
1) I didn't cure them long enough before putting them away for winter,
2) the area I stored them was probably too warm
3) stacking them together in buckets left no room for airflow.
That was alot of work with zero results. If that was a food source that I was truly dependent on, that could've been a tragic mistake and huge waste of time and energy.
I've just picked up my first half a bushel today to try again. Hopefully I'll get some yummy walnuts this time
Sorry to hear that last year's crop didn't work out for you. I would get them out of the shells after curing them for 4-6 weeks. When I was a youngster in the 1970's, my grandmother always had sand tart cookies at Christmas. Each cookie had a piece of a black walnut in the center. There were no computers, cell phones, only 3 channels on TV, not too much to do on a long dark evening. I know my grandfather didn't shell those nuts, there were likely bought from some local who made some pocket change by collecting, processing and selling them. A lot of folks talk about black walnut cake that their grandma made. If you were to take a nut out of the shell without curing it, you will notice that it is kind of wet and doesn't taste so great. You could try sampling one once a week while they are curing and see how the taste changes as they dry out a bit.
Excellent video! 👍🏻👍🏻
I now understand why they're so expensive. Pain in the butt to get to.
Thanks for the info about the husks killing plants, I dumped my husks on a unwanted Poison Ivy patch, I hope it kills the Poison Ivy!
Let us know if it kills the Poison Ivy. I tried putting it on some weeds and they laughed at it. Some native plants are immune to it.
it wont kill plants or grasses,
only other long lived trees.
It killed the Poison Ivy, grass & weeds!
It killed the Poison Ivy, grass & weeds.
Thanks for the update Thomas.
Thanks for a very well laid out and straightforward video
You are welcome, Craig.
Nice vid,thank you for this!
You are welcome, Joe!
We had several walnut trees around our house in Arkansas when I was a kid. We would collect the walnuts when they fell and dump them in a low spot in the driveway and let the cats drive over them. In a day or so we would collect them, clean the hulls off the nuts, and wash them in well water. Then we could crack them at our leisure.
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I remember my family and friends filling gunny sacks with the fruit and driving over them slowly a few times. Gloves and old clothes are mandatory because the green "juice' really permanently stains. We would crack the nut with a ball peen hammer. We also picked hickory nuts, much smaller but easier to open.
That sounds like a fond memory, thanks for sharing it.
I’m so happy I came across this video , I have two huge black walnut trees I contemplated taking down because of these ankle rollin nuts ! Now that’s I know they have some use looks like I’ll be keeping them and harvesting some protein filled nuts !!!
Hey, have a look for a gizmo that looks like a rolling oval cage on a stick. They sell them at hardware stores for about $10. Those things actually work! You just roll one around your lawn, they are really light weight, and they snap up there black walnuts so you won’t break your ankle. A great purchase.
I want to thank you SO much for this information!! I've been doing it wrong all along!
You are welcome, Michelle. It's my pleasure to help.
I am surprise you didn't mention about the stain of the black walnuts. Black walnuts have a deep rich flavor.
Thanks for the video. I harvested 3 large basketfuls and have kept the cleaned nuts in the shell in my garage all winter. I tried shelling before with a hammer but the nuts didn't want to come loose. I left one basket out on the deck for the squirrels one cold winter day, assuming I'd never have the patience to shell more than one basket.... They were gone in a couple of hours. How do the squirrels shell these things!? I will get out my vise and see what happens!
You are welcome. It's most effective to start clipping away at the round end of the nut with the pliers.
I've wondered about the squirrels too, they must have some really sharp teeth. They seem to magically know if a nut is bad and won't bother to shell it.
Squirel teeth keep growing as they are worn down. And with their teeth being small they can build a high pressure on the shell with a small force. Actually my dogs have been getting some too and my vet claimed her teeth were still fine.
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Very informative. I live in eastern PA and see these all over the place right now. I'm going to gather them up and see how it goes. Thanks!
You are welcome. This is the perfect time to pick them up here in Berks County.
Im from Pennsylvania and lived there for yearssss and then moved to montana and never saw these again until today....it felt just like home
Hey Julie, it's great to hear that the video took you down memory lane. If you want to see more Pennsylvania scenery, lately I've been hiking along the Delaware & Hudson canal with a group. We are planning to do all 108 miles of it. I've taking pictures, making slideshows and posting them on my channel.
You forgot the part about making ice cream with thee black walnuts. LOL
LOL!
The walnuts are also really fragrant.
Good video. Very detailed with lots of information. Thanks for uploading!
You are welcome! It's good to hear you enjoyed the video.
Grew up next to grandpa’s farm. Lots of nut trees. We would pick them up, put them threw a hand crank corn shelter then wash them in a big tub and spread them out to dry. Then into wire barrels. Then crack them next to the wood stove during winter.
I was wondering how you plant them. I collected some and didn’t wear gloves to take the nut out. Stained fingers for days afterwards
I never tried planting them, though in the wild, it's likely the squirrels plant the trees. Here's a link to a page that tells how to plant them: hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2008/8-27/walnuts.html
Pretend you are a squirrel.
I made that mistake not too long ago. lol I'd never harvested them before. I found out really quick that the hull juice makes a great stain! My hands and nails were stained for a couple of weeks. lol Lesson learned! 😂
Joy Underwood I just did the same and my fingers look like I've been playing in dirt 🤣 I should have found this wonderfully detailed video first!
that is how they invented walnut stain for wood.....
If you keep the nuts in a mesh bag, uncracked, they can last for years. I have nuts that are 5 YEARS OLD and they are darn tasty, still.
I never tried to store them that long, thanks for the information.
Yes. In fact, to a point, the dryer the nut, the tastier it is. Drying concentrates the flavor. The same thing for pecans.
Do they taste like commercial walnuts, purchased from stores?
Not just they are tasty, they are much healthier, if cracked right before eating. The minute we open them the fats in them start becoming rancid. Some nuts faster than others. I do not even bother buying Brazil nuts or hazelnuts not in the shell.
My nuts are fifty years old and I never store them in a mesh bag! As to how tasty they are you will have to ask the wife!
That'sAwesome!ThankYou!
Thank you for the video! I did something silly but now I know how to do this! :)
The raw black walnuts hull can apply to the skin cancer and heal fast too it create the heat on the skin, but don't worry about it
Add more on this skin cancer thing, please
Fastest way to crack a walnut - give it to our Blue & Gold Macaw, done in about 3 seconds :-)
I have a beautiful large black walnut tree in my front yard here in ✋🏼MI 💙
Thank you for the information. 🌳
You are welcome. It's a bit of work, but the black walnuts have good flavor.
I just discovered a few black walnut trees at the edge of my yard . I can’t wait to harvest
The rotting hulls make good leather and trap dye I just put hulls in a half bucket of water then set traps in for a couple of weeks
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Ues I thought so ! How long does the dye last? How do you make your dye?
Also an ingredient in furniture stain/polish. The hard shells are pulverized and used as an abrasive.
Bexaida Candelaria try here for better details
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- I use a bit of alcohol mixed in the fermented hulls for leather.
Part of my reply disappeared- try here for leather dye questions
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Wow. I was all about trying to process a bunch.
Not anymore
I put them in a bag and step on it. 5 minutes and a whole bucket is clean. Only the washing takes more time. 🤭but it goes quick with a hard brush.
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They’re plentiful and it makes sense to harvest them. I love them.
But this looked a bit too much per pound. I might give it a try, but it’s probably a skill to get it done quickly and well.
@@larryscott3982 i never did it before. First time was hard but when I fou d out how quick it went by stepping on them I hot me two other buckets. 😁 girst rinsed it a few times with water and then brushed them with a hard naimbrush. Dried them one hour in the oven and tjey lay/hang drying in a net. I never even tasted them so hope I like them. 😳
@@jennifers7037 Well how were they? Did you like them?
Thanks for the advice. I plan on trying to harvest some this October.
You are welcome, Lauren. Best wishes for your Fall harvest.
I've been using a vice to crack em but he diagonal plies is a great idea to finish getting the meat out. Thanks for the help. I put them in fudge when I make it.
Make walnut stain with the hulls.
The halls of black walnuts actually have medicinal value as does the shell
tincture kills parasites....re Dr.Hulda Clark
Steven Compston
My dad used juice from the hull to get rid of a ringworm I had when I was a kid. Still remember him stopping at a house in town and asking the man if he could have a few. I was maybe 5 years old. It turned my skin brown but worked.
I heard the hulls have sulfur compound in them. That is why they can draw the infection from tooth ache and jaw deterioration from a bad tooth.
Great video, straight forward, educational, thanx for sharing.😃
Excellent info
For cleaning the hulls off, even when they are unripe you can fit a circular wire brush attachment on your power drill. Strips those babies nice and clean, although one by one.
Thanks for the suggestion Forest.
...use the hulls to make dyes and wood stain.
Dat dude I suspect you do.
Missourian
You may want to consider that you are a terrible person.
lol
busting all kiiinds of nuts. aaaall kinds!
Black and brown dyes I know! 😀
I have a Black Walnut in my yard in Central Alabama, Thanks for the advice!
It's interesting to hear where people have reported that they have Black Walnut trees. When I did research for the video to find the range of the trees, it did not mention many of these locations.
I live in Montgomery and have several.They are really beautiful trees.
Thank you so much. This has been a big help
Wow......just toooooo much work!
I loved the video though. Nicely done
Thanks. It was fun making the video, it's great to see that a lot of people are enjoying it.
You can use the hulls to make a wood stain after they turn black. You can also make a walnut tea out of the hulls that is good for stomach problems. I have 250 anchors of black walnut tress.
Richard family farm Homestead : "acres"?
Wow !
Where are you folks to visit?
You can make a tincture also that will heal broken teeth and cavities...may take a while but swish it in your mouth like mouth wash everyday for a couple months and it has been known to grow back teeth if there is still a root...
Jack Of All Master Of None Nope. Can't regrow bones with plants. You've got one shot with teeth. No second chances. LMAO. Hilarious though.
You can regrow bone with plants! How do you think you can heal from a broken leg or arm or whatever. All you need is calcium, one of the best calcium source is Alfalfa which is a plant. Also sea vegetables and Leafy green all high in calcium. Our bodies can do amazing thing. I don't know if this can regrow teeth or not, won't know until you try it.
You can as long as there are original roots...oh..and your body grew the teeth in the first place and every bone in your body can heal itself...teeth are no different with the proper help..instead of dentists drilling out the roots and filling with a dam piece of epoxy...
great video 😀👍
Excellent comprehension of the topic! Thanks for posting! There must be a better way to remove the shell other than with pliers!
You are welcome, Philip. There are large processing plants in the mid west. The bits of shells are used for sand blasting material. Some people have mentioned in the comments a "cracker" you can buy for small scale processing. I haven't tried it. The shells are really hard.
You cam use the water after washing to find worms for fishing! Pour water were you have seen worms before and when they come up put them in a bucket of clean water to rinse them off. Then go fishing!
Hi. You sound like Jody Foster :)
Someone else has mentioned that I sound like Jody Foster.
BushCraft and Wild Edibles in Central Wisconsin7
yea, she does
Plot twist: It is Jody Foster. Notice that she never shows her face. Hmmm
Thank you for this video. We have a lot of walnuts this year. I want some for baking but didn't know when to harvest. 2020
You are welcome, Marguerite. Best wishes for the walnut harvest.
Thank you diane r, that was a very informative video. I have a bunch waiting to be de-husked right now. I will follow your advice.
You are welcome, Bob. Best wishes for a great harvest.