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All that outter skin you cut to get to the walnut is LOADED with medicine!! As we speak I'm getting ready to do mine lol. I'm new at medicinal benefits in food, herbs and nuts so I figured I'd listen to some black walnut videos while I'm working, and yours popped up lol I'm putting my skins in mason jars. I'm making two separate batches. One as a tincture (liquid) to put in tea and one as a poultice (balm) to use topically. I'll have one soaking in alcohol and the other in extra virgin olive oil. And the nuts, of course, are very nutritious as well. Thanks for the video! God bless 🗡️📖🛡️
"From my vantage, a critter bounded to my right flank, but only visible in my periphery, down a long hallway. It was only a shadow, but the intruder was headed my way. It was too late to react and, soon, it was at my rear. Six o' clock and cornered. I rightly panicked, jump from my perch, and found safety in the bathroom bunker at the end of the hall." I once reacted the same way when a tiny mouse ran at me. Yeah, I might weigh 4,000 times more than it, but you know...it was gross.
For cracking the nuts, make a tool out of a piece of 1x3. Cut a piece about 6" long and drill a 1 1/2 " hole through it. Place the tool over a flat piece of concrete and the nut in the hole of the tool and hit it on the point of the nut with a hammer. Hitting it on the point, breaks the shell and keeps the nut meats intact and the tool holds the nut stable, keeps you from smashing your fingers and keeps everything from flying all over the place. Works great and speeds things up! Cool vid...love black walnuts!
When I was young we harvested 800 lbs of regular walnuts. I found that when you want to crack them crack them, lots of them before you even start to shell. The process will move along at a better pace.
Chris, gotta try the Grandpas Goodie Getter. Just came in today, unbelievable the number of full halfs and even full nut meats. Worth every penny, solid steel. Got almost ten bushels of washed and drying nuts. You and Jeremy should be able to get six cups of nut meats with half the waste and in less time.
I noticed that there was mold on the some of the ripened walnuts. Are they ok? I’m getting ready to harvest some and I waited a bit long and they have mold on them too. Thank you, Great vid. Protect those nuts! 😂
Yep interesting I used to put the hulls in a tub and boil n dye my traps we got to crack where we wanted to or not for mom you can make walnut oil also used in cooking
I live in ottawa area, and have heard these grow in some of the Canadian Shield/ highlands areas. Have yet to ever seen one though. Great video! My father was rcmp and used to tell me some of the aboriginal women still collect these and make a powder from the nut to create a so called "bush bread". Cheers mate.
They would make a great addition to baking/breads, for sure! To spot them...look for a big tree with a big canopy and all by themselves with little growth underneath. Reason being is that the nuts kill off a lot of the under-story since the juglone in the walnut is toxic to the roots of other plants. You can often find them easier in the fall once they start to put out the nut. You can often find them scattered all over the place near the base of the tree and in great numbers too.
Nice Video: I wonder what the Japanese warrior that was recently found in the mountains since WW2 survived on? If you know can you share a video on this. Thanks
Chris your description about the squirrel in your bathroom was hallarious . Thank you for the good laugh. Just so you know , I like squirrels cooked , boiled, charred on the fire , anyway they're cooked. I also know that their bite is nothing but a painful reminder that their teeth are tough. Due to the way you express yourself ( and even if you don't care ) I'm officially signing with you on you tube. Stay alert and God bless you n your family.
New collage drinking game. Every time Chris says nuts, drink. You'll never make it to the end of the video. Very funny. I'm still laughing. Thank you again. Ciao brother.
U can use those skins for catchin bait worms. U make a tea with hot water and walnut skins and pour it on the ground where u think there may be worms and just pick em up man.
It's February 24th 22 my nuts are almost gone, there are de limits. Next year I will gather more I live in Canada do you have to wash them, or can you remove the green and then dry
Squirrels like to scare people. I walked up on one deer hunting. I stood at twenty paces staring at the big red. All I could think of was what if this squirrel sees me as a tree and my coverall pockets a hole. I had no time to think anything else, and in a blink it was UP TO MY THIGH as I made the funniest sound flopping like a mad man, trying to get away from it! I hope people get a kick out of that because I don't like to talk about it.
I have now watched dozens of video's and nobody seems to use what i do...a wire brush. Put one of the circular brushes on your power drill and watch those husks fly off even when hard. Nice clean nuts left...no leeching in, rotting etc but straight to drying.
It is a 1 by 1 process, although fast and clean. I'm sure you could throw them all in a bucket and just let 'er rip with the drill or maybe some other tool. Bon apetit! ;)
Dear sir there is no reason to wash the black nuts. I smash mine remove the shell , put them in an onion bag leave in air outside to cure and all the outside gunk just comes off in crumbs, which prevent the nuts from molding. I always though why would you wast time and water to wash and my method works
I am 76 harvested the black nut this Sept 21 for the first time after having my hands blackened I realized by shedding more nuts, the black dye from the nuts removed the original dye from my hands.
What you showed when working the nuts with gloves was what I was taught. For realistic food the energy to process versus food energy is at question. It is not just picking the nuts up and eating them. So a nice video. Funny video. make flour out of them.
Most of my wild edible adventures end up the same. I'm hungry...but I've got 'some' food. There may only be a few that produce a positive yield in the long term. I'll keep exploring.
I use an old corn sheller to take the husk off of my nuts. I've been dumped them into a bucket of water and stir to get rid of the rest of the particles left on the shelf.
Did your nuts smell citrusy prior to ripening/processing? I had a walnut tree in my old back yard but wasn't sure if these were the same nuts as yours. The squirrels certainly made a mess of the yard every fall. I would often pick up the untouched freshly dropped nuts just to have a whiff of their pleasant odour. Should have saved them I guess. That was quite funny...I thought I could hear your smile through the narration. Good composure.
They have a very distinct smell. I guess it's sort of citrous. I enjoy how they smell and so do the squirrels so it's quite likely that you had them. They fit nicely into a hand, bit bigger than a golf ball.
BRO I have a broken freezer with fans cut in the sides and small air holes drilled all over the box... Nothing can get in or out. I layer the nuts on wire racks inside the box and it's good. I also put a piece of black plate glass on top and it works as a solar drier. I also have some seed mats on the bottom to warm the box on days when the sun is low. It's possible to replace the fans with ceramic disk heaters from walmart if it's too cold. I'd just get a big squirrel trap and eat the fuckers along side. Roast the squirrel in a clay dish with the black walnuts and foraged greens and yer good.
Oddly enough; My friend was trapping beaver and so I was helping out. After we skinned the little guys I asked what they did with the carcass. "Leave it for the coyotes". And so not liking to leave anything to waste I butchered the beaver. And it's good eats. Since they are vegetarians the meat is not real gamey. Since they exercise a lot it's very lean. I made stew, jerky and braised beaver haunches. The hardest part was finding people with no preconceived notions to eat all those vittles.
Oddly enough; My friend was trapping beaver and so I was helping out. After we skinned the little guys I asked what they did with the carcass. "Leave it for the coyotes". And so not liking to leave anything to waste I butchered the beaver. And it's good eats. Since they are vegetarians the meat is not real gamey. Since they exercise a lot it's very lean. I made stew, jerky and braised beaver haunches. The hardest part was finding people with no preconceived notions to eat all those vittles.
Yes, nice mix up. Good sense of humor play, some are just too serious on here. More so when doing item test review for sales. Now to watch part 2. I got side tracked with things at home. I meant 2nd half. Super inventive way o telling the story, and very educational. Thanks.
Thanks for the link. If you look up tapping walnut trees on you tube there are some videos.Who knows how it tastes though, but we can eat the nuts. Birch can be tapped too......Have you ever heard of shag bark hickory syrup? That looks pretty cool too, but I don't know if you have them up there.
a guy could starve in 3 hrs lol. i've done black walnuts, huge pain, but tasty. i guess if that's all ya got to eat then worth it. i just toast a lil bit then make ice cream with em, really brings out that maple taste. the hulls when dried n powdered (topical application) in a plaster can be used to restore circulation in toes for people with diabetic issues. they also make a decent natural dye. can also be used as projectiles in a wrist rocket (avenge yourself on that squirrel). i've seen buttons made from them crosscut.
Giggle giggle giggle 😅 I usually hang my nuts in onion sacks from the ceiling in my garage until the hull and all has dried. Then I process them. Black walnuts are a good source of iodine also that helps heal and prevent tooth decay. You can crush the dried hull to add to nettle tea to help digestive system and give you an antioxidant boost Awesome fruit
I'm not sure if I'd try hanging them indoors though, I'm sure the squirrels would chew through the softest part and try to get at them, at least the ones around here. Didn't know that they made a tea, that's interesting.
The Wooded Beardsman it's amazing the different things you can use them for. You can dry the hull and grind it into a tincture to use as a mouthwash to heal mouth sores and cavities. Has antimicrobial properties. You can also make a tea with the leaves to put on skin wounds such as poison ivy that will draw out the oils and help heal it. Of course it stains your skin for a month or two due to the iodine.
I have four trees and rake up wheelbarrows full of nuts and just dump them for the squirrels in the woods. Way to much work. When they dry out they do burn wonderfully in the woodstove.
you can use an electric drill with an attachment looks a paddle in big bucket with water or a big trash can dump lots of walnuts in the hull spin the drill it nocks hulls off real good and quick
@@TheWoodedBeardsman I have several walnut trees both English and black. To harvest my walnuts I run them through a corn sheller to remove the hulls. As they drop from the bottom into a 5 gallon bucket I then fill that bucket with water and stir with a stick to remove the remaining debris.
You enjoyed doing this voiceover way too much! LOL! I have a system for processing black walnuts. I took a short piece of RR rail that I foraged from along the tracks and cleaned off the rust with a angle grinder. Next I cut a piece of 2" PVC pipe to around 3" long. Then I cut some well dried black locust to fit tightly in the PVC. I place the nut on the rail, cover with the pipe, slide the wooden ram in and strike with a mallet. I break a few and pick thru them separating meat and shells. I find a nut pick invaluable for processing these.
The Wooded Beardsman yep! The pipe keeps the pieces from flying about and you don't have to use as much force to crack the nuts. I've been thinking about trying a steel ram for more energy/less force.
I live in a place thick with them and people do eat them but being hard to crack and large amounts cause the shitz makes them not so good as any sort of food supply or staple.
I enjoyed the poetry about the nut thief in your attic... I think I have a black walnut tree that drops a ton of those green balls every autumn, but I am hesitate to actually eat them for fear of poison... the squirrels definitely do eat them, though. Am I just being paranoid? How do you know that it is edible food for sure?!
This is the person who survived for 29 yrs. In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. Do you know how he survived?
Hi ya WB! I think I saw a walnut tree last summer but wasn’t sure, the nuts looked like these, do u know if there’s a look alike that’s not edible or were the I saw the real thing??? I bet the shells (outer/inner I’m not sure which) would make a great dye. I’ve heard that putting a cone over what u want to keep squirrels away from works, u would have needed a good size one for that batch of nuts. I just came across this video after watching one of season 3 with Bob Hansler and had to watch, funny and very informative! Thank u WB!!!
I dont know about making a meal out of them but, they are ok for sitting around the fire at night. Gives you something to do besides sitting there staring at a fire.
The city came to trim my tree off the power lines and nearly cut the whole tree down. I've never eaten the nuts, but after the tree company cut the tree down and left the walnuts on the ground, I picked them up. They are still green. I'm wondering how long I should wait until removing the husk and getting the nuts out?? Edited- I commented before reading and watching the whole video. Thanks for posting this! Very helpful!
