We have a huge abundance of black walnuts this year! One of my best memories is me and my grandson sitting on the back porch cracking open black walnuts with a hammer ❤
Back in my younger days I did a lot of trapping. We used to stain our traps and chains with walnut husks. We never used gloves and we went to school with stained hands for a few weeks. Black walnut ice cream is my all time favorite.
Yeah, I've noticed that too. They're gorgeous both of them! That obviously makes me want to follow many of their examples of living of the land. And I keep watch for their vids on food items with many calories such as this one.
We have gently warmed the nuts then rubbed them between towels to remove that brown skin. It is quite successful. We have 30 gallons of nuts so far. We can't wait for winter. It is so nice to have those nuts to enrich our bread from the oven or stews from the stovetop. Your content is pleasing and beautifully presented. Thank you.
I was very excited for this video. ❤ I appreciate all your uploads, but I particularly enjoy your longer format videos. Thank you both for sharing such valuable information.
We lived in a spot with heavily leaded soil so no forage was terribly safe, but I would collect the discarded shells and turn them into uniformly-sized charcoal - convenient especially if you are already processing them!
Thank you so much for your content! It has been super helpful and encouraging as we try to live more off of the land and less off of the cereal aisle 😅. Also, that black goo was the part they used to make ink with in the colonial days :)
My wife and I help an elderly lady with her black walnuts, she hates walking on them. We have done this last 3 years. We sold 200lbs to Hammons and don’t expect to do that next year and the farmer who takes them is not doing it again. We keep a half-bushel or bushel for ourselves and I break them over winter whenever I have time, toast them in oven and then store them in quart mason jars in the freezer. My fingernails are stained now.
You have the perfect gloves on--nothing else works..lol..--was that Hummus you made?--I grew up eating these nuts in Indiana. We moved to Alabama in 1985--I love them so much and was not sure I could find them here.,, so we planted 1 tree and we have nuts for anyone one who wants them-plus we have many trees popping up in the flower beds which I have to constantly dig out. I'm so glad we planted this tree and our 2 wild persimmon trees in our yards. They both started bearing really young--that was 33 years ago.
Lovely music. I think Edible acres uses a paint stirrer on a hand drill to agitate the nuts in a 5 gallon bucket of water to get the black off. Might be less water and time intensive than high pressure hose.
I love watching you guys do this stuff :) I just got a cart full and the hulls will be used for dyeing fiber ☺️ I love your winter challenge too. We’d never be able for giving up bread but I love seeing how creative you get
The green shell is used medicinally and just watched several YT videos on tapping for making syrup. So these trees are very giving. Hope you check for these videos.
I pour all of my black walnuts out into the driveway and run over them to get the hulls off. It works quite well! They say the black goo makes a good weed killer.
I was going to comment on this. For us in MN, the green stinky outer "squishy blob" with the tannin, kills everything, including the grass. Did it kill the grass for anyone else?
@@brendag2891 I haven't taken notice if it does or not. I shall have to pay better attention. I do know that the black walnut tree releases some kind of chemical that a lot of plants can't grown around.
There is a company called Walnut blast they use Walnut shells Crush down as pumice to use as hand cleaner. I'm sure over the course of two or three years you could have amassed a few hundred pounds and sell it to these guys. This way truly nothing goes to waste and you'll make a little bit of money.
Great video! How do you avoid getting nuts with worms and bugs in them? I would love to try processing black walnut near my house soon. Thanks for the great content you guys seem pretty cool!
If you see white larvae in the hull (the squishy black part), those don't affect the nuts at all. To eliminate walnuts where an insect may have gotten inside we do a float test. The bad walnuts float on top of the water.
Hello, I just recently found your channel and love it. I was hoping you could tell me what make and model of machine you use to crack your black walnuts. I found the just smashing them shatters the nuts often and to use something like a vice is just so slow so I’ve seen you and Videos use his nutcracker. Is it sufficient for black walnuts and where can I get one?
I actually don’t remember what model it is since we got it a while ago, but if you search online for “black walnut cracker” you should find the same one
La cáscara de la nuez le quita la cáscara a la nuez la pones a secar y la cosa es en agua y te la tomas muy buena para los parásitos y para muchas enfermedades
Place the nut in a divot in a wooden board or on a cutting board on a flat surface or on the sidewalk or cement, then tap gently with the hammer or just whack it with the side of the hammer. if you hit it hard you will get broken nuts but if you just want pieces for baking it'll be fine. then, use some nut cracking / cleaning tools to get the nut out of the shell . Before cracking it is good to dry the nuts in a food dryer/ dehydrator. This is also how they are 'cured'.
@@eileenwineinger3173 I tried putting them in the oven at 200F for an hour, and they have been drying for a year now. Every few months we try a nut cracker, but that didn't work. Next we will try the sidewalk and a hammer!!
I wanted to ask how much of the hull needs to be gone for it to be safe to eat? I don’t have excess to clean it outdoors so I’ve been doing it in small batches by hand. I still have a few pieces on my shells and was unsure. Thank you for your time ❤
So peaceful, balm for the brain. I love your content! Props to your musician friend for creating a perfect mood space.
We have a huge abundance of black walnuts this year! One of my best memories is me and my grandson sitting on the back porch cracking open black walnuts with a hammer ❤
Kudos to Ethan Lennox for the beautiful piano music! So appropriate and calming.
Back in my younger days I did a lot of trapping. We used to stain our traps and chains with walnut husks. We never used gloves and we went to school with stained hands for a few weeks. Black walnut ice cream is my all time favorite.
What would the black walnut husks do on the chain/trap? My only guess would be that it would mask the human scent?
@@sarajohnson6855 brand new traps need to be treated to remove sent and the glean and shimmer
my guess is that it makes the trap less conspicuous@@sarajohnson6855
Can I just say how beautiful you guys are? Both of you radiates this healthy glow from within that's both realistic and charming
Yeah, I've noticed that too. They're gorgeous both of them! That obviously makes me want to follow many of their examples of living of the land. And I keep watch for their vids on food items with many calories such as this one.
I’ve noticed as well. They have such clear, vibrant skin. My family and I are working towards a lifestyle like this and I’m so excited!
aw shucks, thanks :)
I love your Shorts, but what I love about the long form videos is the serene music and beautiful shots of the work. Awesome stuff!
Thanks! The music is actually by our friend Ethan who is one of the people we share the gardens with 🙂
We have gently warmed the nuts then rubbed them between towels to remove that brown skin. It is quite successful. We have 30 gallons of nuts so far. We can't wait for winter. It is so nice to have those nuts to enrich our bread from the oven or stews from the stovetop. Your content is pleasing and beautifully presented. Thank you.
Wonderful music!! A perfect soundtrack for your autumnal abundance gathering.
I put my walnuts into a bucket then hit them with a rubber paint mixer and a drill. Rince and repeat. So easy. Comes out polished
That’s a great idea!
I was very excited for this video. ❤ I appreciate all your uploads, but I particularly enjoy your longer format videos. Thank you both for sharing such valuable information.
We lived in a spot with heavily leaded soil so no forage was terribly safe, but I would collect the discarded shells and turn them into uniformly-sized charcoal - convenient especially if you are already processing them!
Thank you for taking the time to make these amazing videos and share such a cool part of how you live!!
Thank you so much for your content! It has been super helpful and encouraging as we try to live more off of the land and less off of the cereal aisle 😅. Also, that black goo was the part they used to make ink with in the colonial days :)
we're hoping to make some ink with it this Fall!
My wife and I help an elderly lady with her black walnuts, she hates walking on them. We have done this last 3 years. We sold 200lbs to Hammons and don’t expect to do that next year and the farmer who takes them is not doing it again. We keep a half-bushel or bushel for ourselves and I break them over winter whenever I have time, toast them in oven and then store them in quart mason jars in the freezer. My fingernails are stained now.
You have the perfect gloves on--nothing else works..lol..--was that Hummus you made?--I grew up eating these nuts in Indiana. We moved to Alabama in 1985--I love them so much and was not sure I could find them here.,, so we planted 1 tree and we have nuts for anyone one who wants them-plus we have many trees popping up in the flower beds which I have to constantly dig out. I'm so glad we planted this tree and our 2 wild persimmon trees in our yards. They both started bearing really young--that was 33 years ago.
Lovely music. I think Edible acres uses a paint stirrer on a hand drill to agitate the nuts in a 5 gallon bucket of water to get the black off. Might be less water and time intensive than high pressure hose.
Love the original music too!
Absolutely fantastic video. Kina nutty. Thanks from Seattle.
The music was great, I really enjoyed it.
Soooo peaceful and relaxing, luv your channel! and music from Ethan is a real confort 🥰
Thanks for the lovely video. Now for one on how to extract the nutmeats efficiently? 🙂
I love watching you guys do this stuff :) I just got a cart full and the hulls will be used for dyeing fiber ☺️ I love your winter challenge too. We’d never be able for giving up bread but I love seeing how creative you get
The green shell is used medicinally and just watched several YT videos on tapping for making syrup. So these trees are very giving. Hope you check for these videos.
These were preferred for baking (not eating raw) where I grew up. They are a lot of work, though. I admire your industry!
I pour all of my black walnuts out into the driveway and run over them to get the hulls off. It works quite well! They say the black goo makes a good weed killer.
I was going to comment on this. For us in MN, the green stinky outer "squishy blob" with the tannin, kills everything, including the grass. Did it kill the grass for anyone else?
@@brendag2891 I haven't taken notice if it does or not. I shall have to pay better attention. I do know that the black walnut tree releases some kind of chemical that a lot of plants can't grown around.
@@brendag2891 the trees in my neighborhood where i pick up the walnuts have lush grass underneath
black walnut ice cream is goated
Thank you for this idea. I wonder if stucco wire would work better as black walnut nut box scraper/filterer?
So cool!
There is a company called Walnut blast they use Walnut shells Crush down as pumice to use as hand cleaner. I'm sure over the course of two or three years you could have amassed a few hundred pounds and sell it to these guys. This way truly nothing goes to waste and you'll make a little bit of money.
I don't know if anyone has commented this just yet, but you can make iodine from the hulls of the black walnut!!
Hi there, this is a beautiful video. I was wondering if you can share your uses for black walnut too?
Could you try a golf ball washer?. They are generally hand operated and may work to get a good cleaning.
That’s alot a lot of nuts!
Boy, they are hard to crack! :))
Great video! How do you avoid getting nuts with worms and bugs in them? I would love to try processing black walnut near my house soon.
Thanks for the great content you guys seem pretty cool!
If you see white larvae in the hull (the squishy black part), those don't affect the nuts at all. To eliminate walnuts where an insect may have gotten inside we do a float test. The bad walnuts float on top of the water.
You’ve thoroughly explained how to process the nuts. ❤ What about how to get the meat out of the shells?
Great video, what was that dish or recipe at the end?
Hello, I just recently found your channel and love it. I was hoping you could tell me what make and model of machine you use to crack your black walnuts.
I found the just smashing them shatters the nuts often and to use something like a vice is just so slow so I’ve seen you and Videos use his nutcracker. Is it sufficient for black walnuts and where can I get one?
I actually don’t remember what model it is since we got it a while ago, but if you search online for “black walnut cracker” you should find the same one
Real question is what’s your preferred method for getting them out of the shell!?!?
Dear, awesome vlogs, do you sell walnuts online❓🙏❣️
Question- the walnuts near me fall off the tree and the outer covering is still mostly green. Are those ok to use? Should I wait until it turns black?
they are easier to hull if the husk is softer. let them soften a little bit
Nice
Are the walnuts that floats not good?
I don’t usually watch the longer videos but there’re seriously cinematic
I love their longer videos 👍🏻🤗
La cáscara de la nuez le quita la cáscara a la nuez la pones a secar y la cosa es en agua y te la tomas muy buena para los parásitos y para muchas enfermedades
I have some dried walnuts from last season, cured and stored, but cannot crack them. We call them "uncrackable"
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Place the nut in a divot in a wooden board or on a cutting board on a flat surface or on the sidewalk or cement, then tap gently with the hammer or just whack it with the side of the hammer. if you hit it hard you will get broken nuts but if you just want pieces for baking it'll be fine. then, use some nut cracking / cleaning tools to get the nut out of the shell . Before cracking it is good to dry the nuts in a food dryer/ dehydrator. This is also how they are 'cured'.
@@eileenwineinger3173 I tried putting them in the oven at 200F for an hour, and they have been drying for a year now. Every few months we try a nut cracker, but that didn't work. Next we will try the sidewalk and a hammer!!
Do you wear makeup? What do you use to get your skin so glowing?
I can't believe you guys are collecting without wearing hardhats.
I wanted to ask how much of the hull needs to be gone for it to be safe to eat? I don’t have excess to clean it outdoors so I’ve been doing it in small batches by hand. I still have a few pieces on my shells and was unsure. Thank you for your time ❤
What state is this?
Heheh first (literally under a minuet) (I don’t have a problem you do)
😂
I tap my Walnuts for a delicious syrup
Interesting🤔
If you pick any with the green part still on, how do you get that off and prepare them? They're supposedly like almonds and the green part is toxic?
Hi .. I stated picking black walnuts but I am not sure if it is ok to use the ones the ones has worms on the flesh. Please let me know
Te la yomas
O puedes conocer la nuez quebrada la cosa es el agua y
Usa hammer