How to Forage Wild Hickory Nuts 

You two interact with each other with such a high degree of respect and friendship. It's absolutely lovely to see a married couple enjoying each other. So thankful for your influence.

The hulls are good for use in smokers. They give a good flavor. The shells work for this to.

I'll suggest digging cattails. they are very tasty, much like starchy potatoes, and there's lots of info on how to use them. Yummy extra traditional food!

The grubs you can find inside of hickory nuts make great fish food/ bait.

That drink looks so good. I'm gonna have to use my power chair and look around town for some hickory trees.😊

I've loved all the content you two have put out. Thanks for sharing such valuable info in an easily-digestible way. Looking forward to harvesting some hickory nuts here in Iowa!

Now I want to find hickory trees :) I’m in Ontario and I was determined to get black walnuts this year. Finally found a neighbor who was happy to share - got them home and took off the tennis ball outter, washed them for ages and then realized they all floated and were empty 😢 they all started making nut meat but abandoned production at some point. Wondering if it was the late summer drought. Gonna try a new tree next year :)

Dang been tossing floating hickory nuts this whole season! At least the squirrels have been enjoying them.

I’ve never had a hickory nut, but now I want to try one.

When Jordan said at the beginning that Hickory nuts are related to Pecans, I thought at first, they were these thick-shelled pecans that we have here, so hard to break yet the nutmeat is as good as the "cascara de papel (paper shell)" Pecan grown commercially for the market but when Sylvan showed us a closeup of the hickory nuts, that is where the similarity ends. So, I'm thinking this thick-shelled pecan is one that developed here in the Sierra Madre Oriental (mtn.range). Never had Kanachi but it looks as good as the Macadamia nut milk I sometimes buy here. Thank you for sharing you two, 👍and wishing you both a great weekend. 🤠

This is a really valuable video, thanks for making it! I collected shagbark hickory last fall and the nuts were delicious! Made sure to save some as well to plant. 😊

Love pecan, I stopped and bought a bag the other day so my mom can make me some pecan cookies.

We had our nuts hanging in the basement. The chipmunks found them and stored them in boots in the attic.😂

You are so blessed in the USA to have such a wide range of forageable crops that can support life abundantly. Here in Australia, our choices are severely limited.

Shag bark hickories are everywhere where I live! I love snacking on them.

I just harvested a bunch of hickory nuts today so I will try the kanuchi recipe!! Thanks.

I love the matching sweater and pumpkins ☺️

Awesome content

Thx for the great info.

Thank you very much 😊.

Another great video!

I likely will never do this, but I love these videos!

Can you share the RU-vid channel of your friend you mentioned? I looked up the name and it came up with some other people that did music.

Have you tried to make nut butter out of the hickey nuts...? Big hugs from Denmark 💝🌹🥰

I need to try that nutcracker...the hand held crushes it too much and you have to dig out tiny fragments.

I came across your channel anfew weeks ago. Love your content. Question: What is the name of the hard nut cracker you use?

what nutcracker would you reccomend?

Holy smokes, I have a pignut tree in my backyard! I’ve been wondering for a while now what kind of nuts they are 😅 I’ll have to try some. My back deck is constantly covered in them.

I’ve never heard of Carya cordiformis referred to as Pignut?😮 I’ve only seen it as Bitternut hickory and as such, considered unpalatable for humans.

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I came looking to figure out how to harvest Hickories, it seems like every tree I look under I only find weevil filled and empty nuts. Sounds like timing may be key. One criticism though is the scientific name: Carya cordiformis goes with Bitternut hickory, Pignut is Carya glabra. That said I think what you were showing (at least the buds and leaves) may have been Black Hickory, Carya texana. C. texana usually has 7 leaflets while Pignut only has 5 usually, but of course there is variation so it could simply be an unusual form. There are a ton of hickory species though and they are quite hard to tell apart. Good news is they are all edible, even Bitternut hickory which I have a lot of on my property, though they are too small to produce nuts yet. Definitely interested in your nut cracker, there's a lot of black walnuts near me that usually get ignored. I'm in the native range of Pecan in the north so they grow wild and I can forage them everywhere. :) I am very curious to try the nut milk drink!

I saw this video and immediately went looking for them, found some hickory trees but none had nuts on or around the tree 😔 oh well, next year!

Could you add a link to the Sammy Stills channel you mentioned? I'm having trouble finding it.

I've never heard of this drink, but it sounds delightful!

Never saw the tool to open them with. They're impossible to get out whole.

No Hickory in Europe 😢

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Link to sammy?

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