Missouri's Black Walnut | Making the United States out of Native Trees 

The best series on tiktok now on RU-vid?! So stoked.

As a Missourian, I'm so glad you started with my home state!!! Missouri doesn't really get noticed as much as compared to other places in the US. So seeing this playlist start with Missouri makes me especially happy. Me and my family actually have a Black Walnut tree in the ravean behind our house! Keep up the wonderful work!!!

So excited for this series! Would love to see Minnesota with Red Cedar wood.

I have a black walnut tree in my front yard as a Missourian! I was more honored that Missouri was last than disappointed, and I appreciate that our lovely little Midwestern state got so much attention!

You treated us to so much in just one video!

I absolutely love how cohesive this feels even with the new segments it still feels like a clean polished video not to mention how awesome it is to watch it in a 16 x 9 aspect ratio awesome content

Big proponent for the Sassafras for Michigan since it’s an awesome tree and some of the leaves are mitten shaped!

As a Missourian I appreciate the joke about being last previously, and now first. You got a good chuckle out of me. The Black Walnut is almost a pest tree here. Some years entire yards can be completely covered by the nuts dropped by the trees.

As a Missourian and black walnut lover, this video is certified amazing. Thank you sir. One more interesting thing that you may not have known is that black walnut wood fades extremely quickly if put in sunlight, so just make sure the map and bowl are out of the sun :)

I'm really happy you choose this tree for Missouri. I grew up with 4 of these trees in my yard, and Black Walnut ice cream is one of my favorites. If you're ever traveling through Jefferson City, go to Central Dairy. They're the primary maker of black-walnut ice cream in the region. You can also find their ice cream in some local grocery stores.

Honestly happy to see that you got a scroll saw. Watching you work the last map with a band saw and a Dremel was interesting, but my woodworking brain knew there was a better tool for the job. Still happy to see the beginning of a new map with one of the most decorative woods to make furniture out of. Love me a walnut topped desk.

you should do the western larch for Idaho. or as we call it the more common name "tamarack", it's a very cool tree as it is one of only 2 pine trees that loses its pine needles and turns a cool yellow color when it starts. plus it is very important for people who rely on firewood for heat in the winter like myself. It is basically a staple for life up here in north Idaho.

So excited for this series! Missouri looks fantastic and can’t wait to see more!

Thank you for doing this series over again. I’m glad you picked the black walnut for missouri. Being from the state, I remember when I was a kid and going and helping my grandparents harvest black walnuts in the fall.

My grandfather had a huge black walnut tree in his back yard in Provo Utah. When we would visit him he would put us to work shelling the walnuts. Boy were those nuts hard to shell but so delicious it was well worth it. The ice cream looks fabulous. I had some commercially prepared black walnut ice cream once and indeed it was good. I imagine homemade would be much better. I watched a video once where some people owned a black walnut grove and they would harvest the sap just as you would a sugar maple and cook it down. That would be good over the ice cream. These videos are perfect. Not only do you cook in them but you carve and turn wood one of my favorite things to watch. You also get out in the mountains that is beautiful. Thanks for the great videos.

So happy to see you on here and that MO is your first state this time around! I was just talking to a coworker yesterday about the custom sheller his mom has just for black walnuts. They can be startling if you’ve never tasted them and are expecting an English walnut, but I grew up eating them (especially in ice cream! 😋) and now I need to go find some. Between my coworker and you, I now have a huge craving!

I grew up around black walnuts and I learned so much about it watching this, I love the video and I am so excited for this series!

Geography, tree knowledge, walnut info, ice cream making, and woodworking ALL in one video??? YESSS BRING IT Love your work Justin!

I’m so here for long form tree videos!!! Oregon should be a ponderosa pine ❤

I'm glad you made a long format episode for RU-vid, looking forward to seeing more!

Man, I love the longer format video. Great job!

Being from Missouri, Black Walnut is my favorite to turn bowls from. I built our kitchen cabinets of it. History. Missouri Forrest’s were pretty much wiped out south of the Missouri River. The wood was cut and shipped out to build most of the railroads in the 1800’s. WPA was used to replant trees.

So excited for this series! Will this be a weekly video? Wanna make sure I set myself a reminder not to miss an episode.

I grew up eating black walnuts from my grandparents’ farm in eastern Kansas. They have a couple massive old-growth trees there that probably were mature even when my grandfather bought the farm in the 1940’s. Most years we would get a few buckets full of walnuts that would make the trip home with us for winter snacks. I remember how my fingers would look black after gathering them up all over the yard, scraping the last bits of green husk off the few left undisturbed by the squirrels. More often than not most would get left for our squirrels, because taking your dad’s hammer to a nut on the concrete step wasn’t the most expedient means to get a snack as a kid. I even remember one winter where we tried leaving them in the driveway to see if our car could crush them, which surprisingly didn’t work very well. My uncle has four years brought homemade ice cream to family reunions, and black walnut ice cream is usually a staple, made with none other than the walnuts from the same trees at my grandparents farm.

Awesome first video. It blends all the great reasons I love your videos, woodworking, tree facts, interesting cooking recipes.

I would love to see something on the weeping willow tree, easily my all time favorite tree.

Honestly I'm loving the long form, since your tiktoks always leave me wanting to see and learn even more!

Omg i literally made this suggestion on a video in your first series! I live in Missouri and black walnut is a huge part of our childhoods & culture. We eat the walnuts and supply them to much of america but they arent typically farmed. The children grow up collecting them to sell in the fall for extra money to do fun kid stuff. My grandmother would gather all of her grandchildren to her home on the first productive snow of each year and we would all work together husk & shelling a mass of walnuts and collecting as much clean snow as we could, then she would combine the nut bits, snow, sweetened condense milk, whole milk, dark unsweet chocolate bits, walnut extract and vanilla extract to make homemade icecreams with the same antique hand mixer her grandmother made it from when she was a child. We also play a version of tag which is basically snowball fighting with walnuts instead of snowballs. (They have soft thick juice filled green peel flesh the covers the actual nut and so getting hit with one doesnt generally hurt, but it does leave a green stain on your clothing/skin so you can tell where youve hit someone, making it like a game of war with certain hits being considered "killshots," or "fatal," also easy to tell how many times someone has been hit, makes cheating impossible, and the ultimate winner of the game pretty obvious and or easy to discern.) The trees and their wood are some of the most beautiful in the world, extremely valuable for carpentry and gunsmithing. I myself am a master carpenter. It is extremely loved by me and will always be a cherished part of my childhood and conscious awareness in my life. I made it a point to plant a great many walnut saplings on my property once i bought it, yearly plant more. They wont be anything during my life till i am very old or dead. My kids, their kids, and their grandkids will have them as a security throughout their life to be able to earn money from either selling the nuts they will produce in abundance each and every year, and in desperate situations will have the ability to fell and sell them whole for their beautiful wood whuch has an incredibly high value. It is my way of taking care of them even once i am no longer with them, and will hopefully remind them of me as they grow up around them collecting them nuts and crafting with the wood. Their unique smell triggers for me strong loving memories of my beloved grandfather who had them on his land. I hope that the smell also eventully triggers for them strong loving memories of time spent with me, and always remember that i loved them an incredible amount and pass that on in turn to the kids and grandkids they will also love just as I loved them... Thank you for this clip and the full episode you made about the tree and state. Affected this old man emotionally in a joyous way. Made this comment on both videos. Idk why tbh but just know. Youve made this old man very happy. Cried thinking about hoe much this tree has meant to my life & family. Thank you so much for this content sir...

Yes! Love all the uses of the black walnut.

So excited for this series and it’s on RU-vid!!🎉

So excited for this on RU-vid! Great video!! Beautiful work!

Hell yes long form RU-vid videos? HYPE!

I’m so excited for this series to continue in a longer form! It’s always a delight to see you hard work come to life!

How you're able to so densely construct your content to cover a diverse range of topics - including history, geography, vocabulary, culinary & woodworking - all in just a single 8.5 minute video is simply astounding.. I've watched 30-40 min videos with not nearly 10% as much information.. you're an awesome human :)

Already excited for this series!! Love all of your amazing work!!!

I’m so happy this series is on RU-vid! I love the longer videos even MORE tree facts I’m so excited!

Can't wait to see more! You should post time lapses of your woodturning.

Love that these are long form now! Keep it up! 🎉

Bros a chef, woodking, TikToker, RU-vidr and a genuinely talented per.❤❤❤

I was following you on tiktok, but youtube is for sure my preferred video platform. So I´m thrilled to see you here! Can´t wait to see how this even bigger map turn out and to learn more about trees :)

Had I known you were on here I would’ve subscribed a long time ago. Amazing content, keep up the good work!!

this series combines my two favorite corners of youtube: geography and woodworking. so glad to see there is a season 2!

Very happy to see long form informative videos from you on this channel!

This content is so awesome man. Love learning all the tidbits about nature and her trees. Super educational and does an awesome job of holding my attention!

Black walnut is gorgeous. I've personally used it (along with some antler sheds given to me by a neighbor) to make a very nice rifle rack that hangs on my wall. Still one of my favorite projects, though to be fair I haven't had many. Anyway, I'm very excited to see this series coming to RU-vid. Definitely gonna keep tabs on this channel for a long time to come

This was so much fun! Can’t wait for the next 49 states 🎉

I finally got woodworking II on my schedule at school, and let me tell you I’ve been having the time of my life! Just made my first push stick and the wood is so pretty! The wood we have in the shop is so interesting and I’m so happy to get to explore it all!

Excellent content and thank you so much for highlighting the beauty in our backyards. I loved your first American tree map series and am eager to see your future releases. If I were to suggest a tree and state, I'd love to see a mesquite tree used for my home state of New Mexico. Cheers and thanks again, keep up the great work!!

Love seeing this on RU-vid! I actually just harvested some black walnuts this week to try my hand at shelling/cracking. So far, my hands are indeed black, and I wore gloves!

Love the full video format so much!

This combination of subjects is so nice! Subscribed and can’t wait to see more❤

This is awesome! Im from Missouri and some some great black walnut memories. Staining our hands and clothes as a kid. The nut has a good mass for throwing and hitting with sticks. We would gather them and put them in a gravel driveway to clean the nut before cracking it. I think we'll have some walnut ice cream this year. Keep up the great work!

Yay!! I love the longer videos and learning more about these trees!

Walnut is such a beautiful wood. There's nothing quite like the look and feel of real wood, and this is especially lovely. And the native American black walnut fruit is really interesting, loved learning all about that, very informative. Plus nice recipe, even if I cant eat eggs :/ Also the rustic little cute bowl too

This is the first video of yours that I have coma across and it certainly not the last. Thank you.

Youre now one of my favorite youtubers! Such a cool video please continue to make more!

in my last home we had a really old black walnut tree out in the fron of our yard. I never realized that it was different from the walnuts I ate from the store, nor did I ever think to ever try eating them. This episode was super fascinating just learning about a tree I lived next to for a decade. I remember having to pick the walnuts up and how much staining they caused to my hands and to the lawn and sidewalk, too. they definitely were messy.

Oop just found my new comfort channel! I loved this, it's informative, really chill and also just so nice! Love it!

I’m so excited for this. It’s satisfying all my little niche hobbies and interests!

Black walnuts are so delicious! Way more flavor than regular walnuts. I usually only get them when my family visits my grandma in West Virginia.

Thankyou for starting with us we normally get overlooked and forgotten but I have one in my front yard

My grandparents have a black walnut growing in the yard next to their old farmhouse. Every harvest, my grandmother will collect the walnuts and shell them, using them both for dying wool and for food. Her specialty is banana nut bread made from the hearts of the black walnuts, and it is divine.

Just finished your tiktok compilation video of your Vol 1 map and im so pleased to see this Vol 2 series! I love the longer videos with much more detail on the trees and the wooodworking.

One of the best videos I've seen all day and as a botany student, I'm loving it!

Yes yes yes! Love the longer format-subscribed 🤩

so crazy how i’ve never thought of trees in such depth before but i think i’m starting to find more of a love and appreciation for woodworking

I live in Tennessee and I have a black walnut tree in my backyard (right next to a creek, so Riparian all day!). The trick to getting the hull off is to just set it on the ground and stomp on it--if it's ripe it should pop right off. Then you drop the nut in a bucket of water; if it floats, throw it out. After they're washed and dried out I straight up use a hammer and chisel to get through the things. Then I dry out the meat and make flour out of it. A full harvest gives me about enough to make one and a half cakes. And yes, the oils stain like crazy. I wear dishwashing gloves to handle them and by the end of the season it's soaked through and dyed my fingers anyway.

Good too see a longer and more in-depth video

I LOVE how the bowl came out Love your vids, keep it up.

I am from southeast missouri. These trees are everywhere. Highly sought after not only for their fruit but how beautiful their wood grain is. When I was a kid, dad and i were working on some task out in the field. The task was taking longer than expected and we got hungry. We walked to a nearby grove and whacked the nuts open with a pipe wrench. it was a good time. mulberry and persimmons also grow like crazy there. i DARE you to make persimmon ice cream. PAW PAW is famous for its fruit but is also good for making flutes. the bark shears entirely from the wood. the resulting tube can be trimmed and then slid over the core for a slide flute.

The work put into this😍😍🫶🏼 love!!!

Once I started watching your long form videos I can’t stop.

Thank You!! I love the long play place!!! 🌳🌲🌴

AWESOME VIDEOOOSSS!!! I Lived in Oregon and a farmer was taking out a walnut orchard. The hardier Oregon Black Walnut had English walnut grafted on to it for survivability/better fruit combo. I am super lucky to have some of these graft lines that I made bowls from, really cool stuff Great videos!!!!

What a beautiful piece of wood, and the ice cream looks delicious! I’m very excited for this series!

I grew up in the Ohio River Valley, and I had forgotten eating black walnuts as a kid! Finding the right rocks to smash the hard af things with, chipping the flesh off the nut omg. The dark stain on your fingers. So Much Work, and it was entirely worth it. We just ate them raw as we smashed our way through the rock-like shell, eating bits of nutmeat with bits of shell still gritting in it. Lol, good times. I'd love to see Ohio in sycamore, West Virginia in dogwood, and Kentucky in sassafras. I lived in and camped in and dearly loved all three states as a kid, and those are the trees I remember most vividly from each. What a great series! Now I have to find the previous one. ❤❤❤

Grew up making black walnut ice cream from the trees in the backyard! So cool to see you making a batch.

My mum's best friend has a black walnut tree! We'd gather tons of them and make brownies, cookies and walnut candies every year. Delicious stuff

wtf this only has 1500 views and 3k subs? This video was awesome, and the content is really interesting! Will follow the rest of the series!

Awesome! Can’t wait to see more!

Had to delete tiktok as I was to addicted to it, so I’m so happy that I’ll be able to still see your videos, as they were some of my favorite content on the app

I know I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ve lived in the St. Louis area my whole life and there are currently 2 black walnut trees in my front yard (used to be 3 but one unfortunately died a few years ago). They are huge trees and there are always tons of black walnuts in the yard lol. When I was little, I remember hanging out with my grandma and her telling me how hard it is to get the walnut out of the shell, while proceeding to try anyway. I don’t remember if she was successful or not though lol. Thanks for stirring up some happy memories of my grandma, Justin (:

Watching this guys’ old videos because I recently started watching him, and I wanna catch up!

Awesome video! I noticed that you used the range map of butternut/white walnut (Juglans cinerea) instead of the actual range map of the eastern black walnut.

So excited to see you over here now too. 🎉

I love how wholesome you are

Very excited for the new format!

Had one of those trees in my first home's front yard brings back so many memories

For a state that gets forgotten so much, I'm glad to see Missouri first on something. It's nice seeing my home state not be a second thought

I deleted my Instagram a week ago, no longer need it in my life. However, I was sad to do so knowing your content was primarily on tiktok and Instagram. I’m so happy to see you active on RU-vid! California, Bristlecone Pine. Thanks!

Thank you for the knowledge; this series looks like a good time.

So glad my state is the first! Beautiful tree beautiful work! You're so talented ❤

this series is so great. i think i have one of these in my backyard, im gonna try to crack some nuts open once winters over

Illinois next! And I have always loved sassafras trees! I would be soooo stoked to see the long form of the sassafras tree! ❤ 🌳 keep up the great work, man!

To be honest, I've watched this video more than 10 times already and I don't find it boring at all, because it's full of information and quite entertaining. Now, I'm a bit interested in woods and wood working in general.

Thank you for being an advocate for the trees! Modern day Lorax.

One of the best 5 RU-vid channels, or maybe the best RU-vid channel, I'm subscribed to ❤ so glad and thankful to God🙏🏻

I love this channel, please continue this!

As someone from Missouri, and also had a Black Walnut tree in my backyard as a kid, I approve of this choice. I used to be scared of one falling on my head, and I was right to be scared, those suckers hurt when they fell. Also, cause our backyard was green with grass, sometimes I would step on a freshly fallen one and fall backwards into 2 or 3 more.

Fantastic video! At 0:48 I believe you have used the range map for butternut, Juglans cinerea, rather than black walnut, I can verify that we (unfortunately) don't have native black walnut trees here in New Brunswick