Living off Wild Food (Black Walnuts)
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- čas přidán 29. 09. 2023
- In this series we're going to share how we harvest and preserve homegrown and wild food to feed ourselves mostly from our gardens and the woods - what we lovingly call "dealing with the abundance". This week we're collecting and curing black walnuts to store for Winter!
Listen to more of Ethan's original music here: / lennoxec
So peaceful, balm for the brain. I love your content! Props to your musician friend for creating a perfect mood space.
We have a huge abundance of black walnuts this year! One of my best memories is me and my grandson sitting on the back porch cracking open black walnuts with a hammer ❤
Can I just say how beautiful you guys are? Both of you radiates this healthy glow from within that's both realistic and charming
Yeah, I've noticed that too. They're gorgeous both of them! That obviously makes me want to follow many of their examples of living of the land. And I keep watch for their vids on food items with many calories such as this one.
I’ve noticed as well. They have such clear, vibrant skin. My family and I are working towards a lifestyle like this and I’m so excited!
aw shucks, thanks :)
Kudos to Ethan Lennox for the beautiful piano music! So appropriate and calming.
Back in my younger days I did a lot of trapping. We used to stain our traps and chains with walnut husks. We never used gloves and we went to school with stained hands for a few weeks. Black walnut ice cream is my all time favorite.
What would the black walnut husks do on the chain/trap? My only guess would be that it would mask the human scent?
@@sarajohnson6855 brand new traps need to be treated to remove sent and the glean and shimmer
my guess is that it makes the trap less conspicuous@@sarajohnson6855
Thank you so much for your content! It has been super helpful and encouraging as we try to live more off of the land and less off of the cereal aisle 😅. Also, that black goo was the part they used to make ink with in the colonial days :)
we're hoping to make some ink with it this Fall!
Wonderful music!! A perfect soundtrack for your autumnal abundance gathering.
We have gently warmed the nuts then rubbed them between towels to remove that brown skin. It is quite successful. We have 30 gallons of nuts so far. We can't wait for winter. It is so nice to have those nuts to enrich our bread from the oven or stews from the stovetop. Your content is pleasing and beautifully presented. Thank you.
I put my walnuts into a bucket then hit them with a rubber paint mixer and a drill. Rince and repeat. So easy. Comes out polished
That’s a great idea!
We lived in a spot with heavily leaded soil so no forage was terribly safe, but I would collect the discarded shells and turn them into uniformly-sized charcoal - convenient especially if you are already processing them!
I was very excited for this video. ❤ I appreciate all your uploads, but I particularly enjoy your longer format videos. Thank you both for sharing such valuable information.
Thank you for taking the time to make these amazing videos and share such a cool part of how you live!!
Absolutely fantastic video. Kina nutty. Thanks from Seattle.
My wife and I help an elderly lady with her black walnuts, she hates walking on them. We have done this last 3 years. We sold 200lbs to Hammons and don’t expect to do that next year and the farmer who takes them is not doing it again. We keep a half-bushel or bushel for ourselves and I break them over winter whenever I have time, toast them in oven and then store them in quart mason jars in the freezer. My fingernails are stained now.
Thanks for the lovely video. Now for one on how to extract the nutmeats efficiently? 🙂
Lovely music. I think Edible acres uses a paint stirrer on a hand drill to agitate the nuts in a 5 gallon bucket of water to get the black off. Might be less water and time intensive than high pressure hose.
Soooo peaceful and relaxing, luv your channel! and music from Ethan is a real confort 🥰
Love the original music too!
The music was great, I really enjoyed it.
You have the perfect gloves on--nothing else works..lol..--was that Hummus you made?--I grew up eating these nuts in Indiana. We moved to Alabama in 1985--I love them so much and was not sure I could find them here.,, so we planted 1 tree and we have nuts for anyone one who wants them-plus we have many trees popping up in the flower beds which I have to constantly dig out. I'm so glad we planted this tree and our 2 wild persimmon trees in our yards. They both started bearing really young--that was 33 years ago.
These were preferred for baking (not eating raw) where I grew up. They are a lot of work, though. I admire your industry!
I pour all of my black walnuts out into the driveway and run over them to get the hulls off. It works quite well! They say the black goo makes a good weed killer.
I was going to comment on this. For us in MN, the green stinky outer "squishy blob" with the tannin, kills everything, including the grass. Did it kill the grass for anyone else?
@@brendag2891 I haven't taken notice if it does or not. I shall have to pay better attention. I do know that the black walnut tree releases some kind of chemical that a lot of plants can't grown around.
@@brendag2891 the trees in my neighborhood where i pick up the walnuts have lush grass underneath
So cool!
I love watching you guys do this stuff :) I just got a cart full and the hulls will be used for dyeing fiber ☺️ I love your winter challenge too. We’d never be able for giving up bread but I love seeing how creative you get
I don't know if anyone has commented this just yet, but you can make iodine from the hulls of the black walnut!!
There is a company called Walnut blast they use Walnut shells Crush down as pumice to use as hand cleaner. I'm sure over the course of two or three years you could have amassed a few hundred pounds and sell it to these guys. This way truly nothing goes to waste and you'll make a little bit of money.
The green shell is used medicinally and just watched several YT videos on tapping for making syrup. So these trees are very giving. Hope you check for these videos.
This video inspired me to find someone in my city who shared some with me. Just finished processing them. Hopefully they taste okay because it seemed like they were sitting in the black skin for a while. It's all a learning experience!
Thank you for this idea. I wonder if stucco wire would work better as black walnut nut box scraper/filterer?
black walnut ice cream is goated
Boy, they are hard to crack! :))
Could you try a golf ball washer?. They are generally hand operated and may work to get a good cleaning.
That’s alot a lot of nuts!
Great video! How do you avoid getting nuts with worms and bugs in them? I would love to try processing black walnut near my house soon.
Thanks for the great content you guys seem pretty cool!
If you see white larvae in the hull (the squishy black part), those don't affect the nuts at all. To eliminate walnuts where an insect may have gotten inside we do a float test. The bad walnuts float on top of the water.
Nice
I don’t usually watch the longer videos but there’re seriously cinematic
I love their longer videos 👍🏻🤗
You’ve thoroughly explained how to process the nuts. ❤ What about how to get the meat out of the shells?
Hi there, this is a beautiful video. I was wondering if you can share your uses for black walnut too?
La cáscara de la nuez le quita la cáscara a la nuez la pones a secar y la cosa es en agua y te la tomas muy buena para los parásitos y para muchas enfermedades
I have some dried walnuts from last season, cured and stored, but cannot crack them. We call them "uncrackable"
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Place the nut in a divot in a wooden board or on a cutting board on a flat surface or on the sidewalk or cement, then tap gently with the hammer or just whack it with the side of the hammer. if you hit it hard you will get broken nuts but if you just want pieces for baking it'll be fine. then, use some nut cracking / cleaning tools to get the nut out of the shell . Before cracking it is good to dry the nuts in a food dryer/ dehydrator. This is also how they are 'cured'.
@@eileenwineinger3173 I tried putting them in the oven at 200F for an hour, and they have been drying for a year now. Every few months we try a nut cracker, but that didn't work. Next we will try the sidewalk and a hammer!!
Question- the walnuts near me fall off the tree and the outer covering is still mostly green. Are those ok to use? Should I wait until it turns black?
they are easier to hull if the husk is softer. let them soften a little bit
Real question is what’s your preferred method for getting them out of the shell!?!?
Great video, what was that dish or recipe at the end?
I wanted to ask how much of the hull needs to be gone for it to be safe to eat? I don’t have excess to clean it outdoors so I’ve been doing it in small batches by hand. I still have a few pieces on my shells and was unsure. Thank you for your time ❤
Do you wear makeup? What do you use to get your skin so glowing?
Dear, awesome vlogs, do you sell walnuts online❓🙏❣️
What about if you would harvest all that water and put it good use. Could come in handy in the garden with all the drought? Or is there no drought in your region
The stinky smell of walnuts is a chemical known as juglone. The tree produces it to suppress some of the plant competition. Some garden plants could be sensitive to the chemical so use caution.
there is substance on black walnut hulls that inhibits growth of other plants. best to discard the water
Heheh first (literally under a minuet) (I don’t have a problem you do)
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What state is this?
I can't believe you guys are collecting without wearing hardhats.
O puedes conocer la nuez quebrada la cosa es el agua y
If you pick any with the green part still on, how do you get that off and prepare them? They're supposedly like almonds and the green part is toxic?
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Hi .. I stated picking black walnuts but I am not sure if it is ok to use the ones the ones has worms on the flesh. Please let me know
Usa hammer