It's Time for Hickory Nuts!! 

In the 60's my brother and I sat under our Hickory tree with a rock and just had the greatest feast , we use to steal my sisters bobby pins to get the meat out! ha ha

I have a question...1st great video but I'm wondering why all the ones I'm seeing right now on the ground seem very wet and dissolved... And the other ones are looking undeveloped..looks unripe... Why are they all on the ground if they are not ready? I have shag ark and pignut and they are everywhere in the yard but haven't cracked 1 good nut? Why?

Not like Walnut at all. Hickory is in the exact same genus as pecan. You can even graft them to one another. Hickory is very much like pecan. It's delicious!

In NW AR, the hickory nuts all green and all over ground. Should I gather and just keep them even if green?

very helpful thanks

Question: I have 2 big buckets of hickory nuts that have now some white mold on the bigger shell. Is there any way I can salvage them? Like soaking them in vinegar water, maybe?? We picked them dry from the ground. They had mud on them so we washed them in water and then sun dried them. Then store them in buckets. Now they have mold... :(

I like to say they taste like my grandma. One: the looks I get are hilarious. Two: The taste/smell instantly brings me back to my grandma's house. Maybe it was her candles, not sure but her and her house had that aroma.

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I have over 50 shagbark hickory trees on my 1.75 acre lot... I see the squirrels up in the trees eating the nuts... Then they drop the husks... I hear them munching away every day... Now that I know what I'm looking for, I'm going to grab some of the hickory nuts on the ground... Thank you for this video. P.S. The squirrels like the hickory nuts much more than the meaty white oak acorns on my lot. And the hickory trees produce tons of nuts every year.

I'm not saying he's handled a lot of nuts, but I bet he's handled a lot of nuts...🤣🤣🤣. We collect them here as well and they generally produce near every 3yrs pretty regularly.

Excellent informative video. Thanks for sharing!!!

I've found a hickory tree however, I believe it's a shellbark. It's not producing nuts this year. Can I still use the bark to make syrup?

Very helpful video. I’ve got quite a few hickory trees on the property I just built a cabin on. The nuts here have a much smaller husk but the nut looks about the same.

Chris this was highly informative, more than you'd ever know!!! Thank You

Where are these trees at??

Around here where??

I thought I was the only one that ate hickory nuts. You’re right! They are the tastier cousin to walnuts. They have a much stronger, smoky, earthy flavor to me but man are they a lot of work to get out! Here in Georgia you pretty much have to pulverize that hickory hard shell and pick up the pieces of nut meat. Good tho!

They're pretty yummy. I can't tell a lot of difference between them and black walnut except they are a little stronger flavor which I like about them. The hulls work great in the smoker too. There's always loads of them around the trees even if the tree rats have sniped all the nuts.

Great job man extremely interesting

The shells also smell wonderful when you burn them. Much like the wood!

Leave them. Squirrels gotta eat too, and bury them, creating more trees.

Just found out I have a hickory tree on property..thanksfor the info!

hey man no expert but used garden weasel nut pick user picked up when green then left back truck they opened up like flower got nut golden brown.real easy pritey nut. though risk do that way as bug like borrow hole into them and lay egg. so do at own risk but no work. i get ride all nuts at bottom tree. next year most should good.

Can you smoke meat with the shells?

Great nature channel. I want to get into the wild.

Hi, if your hickory tree is on a mowed lawn (like my trees are). Use a leaf blower to wind row the nuts, then scoop them up with a snow shovel and into the pig pen. The pigs eat the nuts whole and leave the husks. Resulting in the best tasting pork you'll ever eat. Very little work on my part but with great rewards. 🐷+🌰=🤠