Can You Make Extra Money Harvesting Walnuts from Your Property?
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Everyone who homesteads would love to make a little extra income while they do it right? There's lot of ways I have thought about making a little extra cash, and recently I came up with the idea of selling the thousands of black walnuts that fall from my trees! Walnuts? Seriously can you make money from them? I'm doing a quick experiment to find out and may do a trial run this year to see how viable harvesting walnuts for profit could be in the future.
Here is the website of possibly the biggest wild walnut harvesting company in the world:
black-walnuts.com
Check them out to se how close the nearest dehulling and collecting site is from you!
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Oh my this video is just hitting the spot. My daughter had picked a whole bunch of walnuts and I was drying them and someone said stick them on your back steps in the Sun so I did. Hours later I forgot about them and I asked my son to bring them in and they were destroyed the squirrels we figured got at them. So we went back to the farm a family friends farm to get more and it was almost like the squirrels were laughing at us because they're sat in a pile they had rallied all the walnuts together and taking them and left the black pile of debris. We almost cried so we will learn and try for next year. Yes many had told us the value of them and also how amazing they are to bake with ugh next year thanks for your video we're Learning
I have one tree here in Alabama--I heard someone at the farmers market was selling them. I give mine to a couple of friends, and save the rest to cook with or eat. We had a bumper crop this year. Mine always are big and very tasty. My tree started bearing about 3 years old--I ordered the tree from a nursery, it was very cheap. I have a lot of small trees I would sell if anyone is interested. These nuts trees do very well in Alabama. I became familiar with these nuts growing up in Indpls, IN.
in 2017 we picket up 10,554 pounds of black walnuts that was after the green husk was removed i could fill 2 truck loads a day most of the time we did 1 truck load a day @15.00 a hundard we made 1,583.10 dollars for just under a month
@@Terry794 pecans go for like 2.50 a pound
This year in Kentucky has been insane. I have never collected so many. This is the first year I have had no squirrels taking them. We don't know where the squirrels went
So I have a walnut farmer friend who has 11 acres of English walnuts. The electricity to power the well water to water the trees, paying the pickers, paying for the equipment and paying for everything else to get the walnuts to the wholesaler now costs more than you make. The wholesaler only wants to pay $0.11 per lb now. What can someone do to stay in business to sell their walnuts?
We just did this yesterday. Husk weight is about 2/3 or 3/4 of the total weight. We had 10 huge 3 ft x5 ft bags filled; total of hulled nuts was a little over 700 lbs. $129. The drive was about 45 miles each way. The experience paid for the gas and a bit more, but I don't know as we will do this again. Perhaps if the location was closer, but...
You got ripped off.
About 72 buckets give or take for $100 and you gotta get them there. Unless you have lots of cheap help and a big trailer I'd pass on that one.
So money does grow on trees....hmmm😂
It kinda does!
Can you bring ALL the black walnuts you find? Or just the pretty ones?
Any and all, but try to get before they start to rot!
Do you have to wait for the nuts to fall on the ground, or can you pick them off the tree?
Yes, wait until they fall to the ground. The first ones to fall a few weeks ahead of time are usually not fully developed. Then you have to crack open and let dry for about 2 months!!
@@WhistleThicket I just checked that Hammonds website. Unfortunately, they don't have locations in New Jersey, where I live. Plus, even if they did, I think it would be very annoying to transport the nuts without a pickup truck. I don't know if I could fit enough in my car. Do you have a truck?
I'm wondering if I can just sell them on eBay. Do you think anyone would buy them on there? I have a big black walnut tree in my back yard and it surprised me that Hammonds doesn't collect from here, because I've heard that NJ is one of the biggest places for black walnuts.
Tap the trees for syrup
I have!
@@WhistleThicket black walnut syrup is my new addiction 😊
Black hands for $15 doesn't sound very pleasing
this year they were 16.00 a hundred pounds and yes i'm still picking up the free money lol
bobinmissouri how do you sell it?
@@saenzx7961 i sell them to Hammons nuts they have dehusking set up in many states look up Hammons walnuts
I'm interested in trying this, how many hundred fit in a pickup truck load?
@@juliennewheatley5940 i did 413 pounds of husked nuts to day i use 12 big tubs to put them in i stack 6 on bottom an 6 on top at this date have done 4313 pounds a little over 2 ton
@@bobinmissouri Hi, Thank you for sharing your walnut experiences. How big are the tubs you describe? Our truck bed is 65" x 45" between tires.
I have many large green walnut trees. Can I sell the walnuts when they drop this year?
Maybe, depends where u live! Midwest has walnut buyers!
10 cents lb. Sparrow 🌲
60cents lb
First of all, white Kevin Hart, I downvoted you when you burst my ear drum but then up voted you for the content :)
Thanks ?
What are some of the things you guys make with them?
Sell 🌲
Your bucket is not leval full.
What is leval?
Why don't you just use a garden rake and shovel to collect them?
I have in the best, but the nut tool is WAY easier and saves tons of time!
Whistle Thicket I didn't realise that you had the actual nut tool. I'm wondering if the golf ball tool for picking up golf balls might be much difference in price as they are the exact same thing.
It might work - the nut harvester tool I bought was 37.00 dollars, it can hold about 25 walnuts and then I dump them in a bucket and keep going!
DUDE! What happened to your beard?
I shave about 2 times a year, I guess we've been on CZcams about 6 months so it wat time! Almost made a video about it but it was rainy and then I was sick for a day or two!