WONDERFUL video on harvesting black walnuts!!! Believe it or not, my husband had producing black walnut trees on their farm in mid-NORTHERN MINNESOTA!!! The trees are rare here, but, once established, they thrive!!!!
This video of getting your kids involved to gather and sell black walnuts to Hammons is excellent. You don't earn much money... but you have so many other benefits from it... like taking advantage of what nature provides and having a fun day outdoors collecting nuts. And the money is a nice bonus... to buy a special treat; celebrating your hard work, or use to buy holiday gifts, ect. It is free money left on the ground for the taking.
Someone in my county posted that they had free black walnuts just for the taking. I brought 4 5-gallon buckets thinking that was too much; I didn't even make a dent. Anyway, I'm going to make a black walnut tincture, an extract, an oil extract, and some black walnut ice cream which was my favorite as a kid. So excited to get cracking on this adventure!
Glad I stumbled on your video. I found a place 5 miles from where I work that will buy the black walnuts. I have 6 large trees here and never knew what to do with them. Cheers dear! 🍻
Awesome! I'm foraging for the first time..have had these trees on the land forever. Always considered them a nuisance. And there is a listing about 15 miles from me. So I am happy to gather up and sell. Thanks for the info!
Oh man, havent even watched the vid yet and have to bring up something hilarious lol. I had paused the video to make breakfast, I come back, see that beautiful face and read "how to harvest and phallic" lmao 🤠🤔🙏
I really appreciate your video. I have a couple walnut trees that are in major production mode this year and, yes, I fall when I hit them. But I wasn’t sure how the process worked. As a side note, John Q. Hammons and his wife have been very good to Southwest Missouri, especially Springfield. Of course, black walnuts have been very good to John Q. Hammons!
I feel the same about using the land as it is and helping bring back natural environments So much natural beauty destroyed by concrete Thanks for your video 🎉
We have tons of walnuts every year! I used the Hammons and found a location close to me in IN. I’ll be gathering Walnuts soon and reaching out to them. Thank you!!
They’re paying $16 per 100 lbs so it’s not worth it for me. I just hulled some under foot and used a broom handle to knock the messy walnuts into an old fish net. Dumped them into a bucket of water and ran a drywall mud mixing tool to agitate them. Changed the water twice, and that was good enough. Got a big bag drying now and tons more on the ground if I want to do more soon. If you search ‘Hammons black walnut buying locations’ you’ll find a website where you can enter your zip code. I think there were 4? Atlanta, IN was one if I recall. Hope this helps.
@@GirlCarpenter it reall don't take long to get a 100 pounds 3 years ago I picked up just over 10.550 pounds and thats after they are husked did in a month
Hello over here on Walnut ridge southern Missouri I use a spreader that releases the walnuts into a tall trash can one pick up only,.. done. Then dolly cans to trailer to sell to Hammonds.500+ lbs ok take care.
Hammons pays $16 per 100lbs after they’re husked by them. I’ve found a 5 gallon buckets holds 24 lbs of unhusked walnuts on average, a walnut husk on average is 44% of the weight of the walnut. So roughly 10 five gallon buckets will get you $16
@@Jay-fp8mv id rather spend my time picking them then, shucking and de shelling and getting everything stained black. Maybe if people would pay that price but not where I live forsure
I moved in to a new house last week, this week I realized there is a black walnut tree and yard was full... today I hand husked two huge totes and have another tomorrow then triple washed and rattled ready for a clean brushing tomorrow night. The husks I'm steeping as going to use for wood stains in this 20s home and seeing as no locations anywhere near me in this state I will have to make my own husker setup now I have a yearly harvest... I actually personally cant stand nuts of any type but looks like humans will be getting bags of nuts randomly for gifts.
Great job! So great to get the family involved. Makes for fun memories and a great way to learn. Have you ever planted black walnuts? We're thinking about creating a grove of black walnut trees at our ranch in southeast Oklahoma. Any advice?
Currently trying to figure out more things to do with the fruit itself. Seems it can be used safely, at least in the same way you can use cashew apples. Jury is still out, if it can be eaten raw like almond fruits. But, at the very least you can make syrup, cheung, or alcoholic drinks. I def love that the I'm on the same wavelength of the vid creator, cuz in my area, I've seen bushels of these things ran over on the road and always thought our tennis team was just awful (they look like tennis balls). It wasn't till I picked one up and it stained my hands, that I realized it was something else and till this year that I learned these were walnuts 🫠 the fact there's no local collection service, while nuts are so expensive... like what are we doing? Lol
hammons pays $16 per 100lbs, or $0.16 per lb, but that's after removing the hulls. even if they lose 50% of the weight shelling them (i'm guessing), they're still only paying $0.32 per lb for the walnut meat. hammons shelled black walnuts sells on amazon for ~$15/lb shipped but when you consider shipping cost and amazon's cut is probably ~$5 of that, it's $10/lb cleared. from $.32 to $10/lb is still 30x markup, leaves plenty of room for profit, even after labor and equipment and marketing. not a bad business.
Hi! This is the first video of yours I've watched, and it was great. Thanks for posting! A suggestion if you want to give the kids another avenue to explore the black walnuts: I just looked on Ebay and people are selling the black walnuts in the shell (dehusked) for anywhere from $7-18 per pound on Ebay. Might be a good way in the next few years to give them a taste of entrepreneurship. I'm curious - how much did it cost you for Hammonds to dehusk that bag of walnuts you brought home? Just curious, since the article I read mentioned they would do it, but didn't mention the fee they charge. Thanks again!
Just found Hammons black walnuts on Amazon Canada. $64 for a 24 oz bag! If they paid you $140 for the entire truckload, that is a hell of a profit. Got me thinking about investing in some processing equipment and starting a similar business here in Canada.
Sorry late question here. Can you gather nuts on ground from the previous year??? Or is it best to rake away the old nuts before this seasons nuts hit the ground? Thanks a bunc
Answers to your questions: Yes, but stuff sitting on the ground for a year tends to be subprime. Yes/no. It might be best to ignore last year's nuts and focus on this year's nuts.
A person brings nuts to Hammons with the hulls still on them. They run them thru their machine. A person gets paid for the result. So, you would get the same $ if you brought them hulled nuts but..... I doubt they would buy hulled nuts because they would have no easy way to know how old they are and how they were stored.
Just curious if you know what they do with all the removed husk. I’m sure some could go into making stains. I sure hope that none of it ends up in compost. That would be the death of anything planted in it.
I have been selling to Hammons for many years back whe they were 10 dollars a 100 pounds this year they were 16 dollars a 100 pounds wasn't able to do it this year
You make it look easy. How do you know these walnuts are good. White magnets are in the hulls when green. This larva has to get back into the ground. For next years Webb worms in the trees. Later.
That shell is the toughest nut shell I've ever cracked into. The larvea find their way back into the ground. And you are bound to break an ankle with thousands of golf ball sized nuts in your lawn. Best to clean them up!
I rake the walnuts to get her. By hand. Take the hulls of with a corn scheller. Wash and tumble. Air dry in haveheart trap. Keep squirrels. From robbing them. Crack when needed. Hulls go to trash can. Ship to the dump . This stops incests from coming back next year. Web worms. You have to break the cycle of the maggot worm. Pears 🍐 work the same way. Do not put in compost pile. You will double your incest troubles. Clean up. Mess in yard. In 3 years you will have a better. Pear to can. Walnuts are the same way. No spraying. Using chemicals. Later.
thats what yay want... they are easier to deskill just put them in a cement mixer or a classifier + pressure washer / house set up and you got a lot of clean black walnuts!
I just though what that walnuts but not think about it, I dont think about that. shoud i pick walnuts up keep put bags and we all clean throw trash 😬 for nothing few day ago oops. I should keep give my mom want all my own house have big till the tree black walnuts. I will take pick black walnuts keep it and next time again❤
$16 per 100lbs after they’re husked by them. I’ve found a 5 gallon buckets holds 24 lbs on average, a husked walnut on average is 44% of the weight of the walnut. So roughly 10 five gallon buckets will get you $16
A little over a hundred for 700 lbs is IMO getting robbed. They will sell them at a huge profit being they are not English Walnuts, and they are organic.
That’s not a bad price, considering that picking them up is the easy part. These have a husk, and a shell before you get to the meat. The outer husk stains everything it touches green, and isn’t the easiest thing to remove, and the inner shell is one of the hardest to crack. The final product is probably less meat than a pecan
@@dan27052 Hulls are not as difficult to remove as you seem to be leaning towards. The shell while is a "hard" one if dried out enough they are not that bad to crack either. As for the amount of meat, I've never paid attention against a pecan.
@@2olvets443 Ok, then I have a business idea for you. You could give her double for her load, then shell and crack them, and probably still make a good amount on them? You seem to have the knack for it better then anyone else I know, might be you niche’.
WONDERFUL video on harvesting black walnuts!!! Believe it or not, my husband had producing black walnut trees on their farm in mid-NORTHERN MINNESOTA!!! The trees are rare here, but, once established, they thrive!!!!
That's so cool! It sure is cold up there!
This video of getting your kids involved to gather and sell black walnuts to Hammons is excellent. You don't earn much money... but you have so many other benefits from it... like taking advantage of what nature provides and having a fun day outdoors collecting nuts. And the money is a nice bonus... to buy a special treat; celebrating your hard work, or use to buy holiday gifts, ect. It is free money left on the ground for the taking.
That company is such a good find to help with processing walnuts! Love how resourceful you are. Awesome video!
So happy you found it helpful! That's the goal. Thanks for watching!
Someone in my county posted that they had free black walnuts just for the taking. I brought 4 5-gallon buckets thinking that was too much; I didn't even make a dent.
Anyway, I'm going to make a black walnut tincture, an extract, an oil extract, and some black walnut ice cream which was my favorite as a kid. So excited to get cracking on this adventure!
You go girl! Sounds delicious!
The serene forest scenes are captured perfectly. Your video is incredibly calming and peaceful!
Walnuts payed for Thanksgiving dinner. Can't beat that.
Glad I stumbled on your video. I found a place 5 miles from where I work that will buy the black walnuts. I have 6 large trees here and never knew what to do with them. Cheers dear! 🍻
Awesome! I'm so glad!
Awesome! I'm foraging for the first time..have had these trees on the land forever. Always considered them a nuisance. And there is a listing about 15 miles from me. So I am happy to gather up and sell. Thanks for the info!
Oh good! I'm so glad!
Oh man, havent even watched the vid yet and have to bring up something hilarious lol. I had paused the video to make breakfast, I come back, see that beautiful face and read "how to harvest and phallic" lmao 🤠🤔🙏
I really appreciate your video. I have a couple walnut trees that are in major production mode this year and, yes, I fall when I hit them. But I wasn’t sure how the process worked. As a side note, John Q. Hammons and his wife have been very good to Southwest Missouri, especially Springfield. Of course, black walnuts have been very good to John Q. Hammons!
I feel the same about using the land as it is and helping bring back natural environments So much natural beauty destroyed by concrete Thanks for your video 🎉
Loving that old Super 10 putting in the work 💪
Great presentation !! Also the presenter is talented and charming !
Glad you liked it! THANK YOU!
This is an awesome video! I'm gonna harvest mine. I need to find the nut wizard. Thanks for sharing
So nice, thank you! I noticed black walnut trees in my unused state park here in Philadelphia and have been taking a crash course in harvesting.
Your so welcome! Happy harvest this fall!
We have tons of walnuts every year! I used the Hammons and found a location close to me in IN. I’ll be gathering Walnuts soon and reaching out to them. Thank you!!
Awesome! Glad this was helpful!
Where did you find the walnut huskier in Indiana what town thanks
They’re paying $16 per 100 lbs so it’s not worth it for me. I just hulled some under foot and used a broom handle to knock the messy walnuts into an old fish net. Dumped them into a bucket of water and ran a drywall mud mixing tool to agitate them. Changed the water twice, and that was good enough. Got a big bag drying now and tons more on the ground if I want to do more soon.
If you search ‘Hammons black walnut buying locations’ you’ll find a website where you can enter your zip code. I think there were 4? Atlanta, IN was one if I recall.
Hope this helps.
@@GirlCarpenter it reall don't take long to get a 100 pounds 3 years ago I picked up just over 10.550 pounds and thats after they are husked did in a month
Hello over here on Walnut ridge southern Missouri I use a spreader that releases the walnuts into a tall trash can one pick up only,.. done. Then dolly cans to trailer to sell to Hammonds.500+ lbs ok take care.
Sounds awesome! Thanks!
This was awesome! I am in Kansas and didn't know about that company.
Hammons pays $16 per 100lbs after they’re husked by them. I’ve found a 5 gallon buckets holds 24 lbs of unhusked walnuts on average, a walnut husk on average is 44% of the weight of the walnut. So roughly 10 five gallon buckets will get you $16
If anyone was interesting in my price breakdown and experience so far without gas/labor costs.
Your better off fully harvesting them yourself they sel 4 oz of nuts for 50$ your cheating yourself
@@Jay-fp8mv id rather spend my time picking them then, shucking and de shelling and getting everything stained black. Maybe if people would pay that price but not where I live forsure
Now it’s 12 bucks
Loved this video. I never knew, they’re all through my property. So informative. You’re beautiful 😊💜🦋💜
I'm so glad! Thank you so much, your so sweet!
So cool!!
thanks Audra!
I moved in to a new house last week, this week I realized there is a black walnut tree and yard was full... today I hand husked two huge totes and have another tomorrow then triple washed and rattled ready for a clean brushing tomorrow night. The husks I'm steeping as going to use for wood stains in this 20s home and seeing as no locations anywhere near me in this state I will have to make my own husker setup now I have a yearly harvest... I actually personally cant stand nuts of any type but looks like humans will be getting bags of nuts randomly for gifts.
Great job! So great to get the family involved. Makes for fun memories and a great way to learn. Have you ever planted black walnuts? We're thinking about creating a grove of black walnut trees at our ranch in southeast Oklahoma. Any advice?
Currently trying to figure out more things to do with the fruit itself. Seems it can be used safely, at least in the same way you can use cashew apples.
Jury is still out, if it can be eaten raw like almond fruits. But, at the very least you can make syrup, cheung, or alcoholic drinks. I def love that the I'm on the same wavelength of the vid creator, cuz in my area, I've seen bushels of these things ran over on the road and always thought our tennis team was just awful (they look like tennis balls). It wasn't till I picked one up and it stained my hands, that I realized it was something else and till this year that I learned these were walnuts 🫠 the fact there's no local collection service, while nuts are so expensive... like what are we doing? Lol
So, you're saying you found a way to keep the kids engaged, working, happy, AND someone paid you for it? That doesn't sound like a loss.....
How amazing is that. !!!
hammons pays $16 per 100lbs, or $0.16 per lb, but that's after removing the hulls.
even if they lose 50% of the weight shelling them (i'm guessing), they're still only paying $0.32 per lb for the walnut meat.
hammons shelled black walnuts sells on amazon for ~$15/lb shipped
but when you consider shipping cost and amazon's cut is probably ~$5 of that, it's $10/lb cleared.
from $.32 to $10/lb is still 30x markup, leaves plenty of room for profit, even after labor and equipment and marketing.
not a bad business.
Lots of flavor in blk walnuts!! Lots!! I like hazelnuts, so do the hogs,and so the meat tastes great!
cant believe you waste them giving them to pigs!
They also produce a delicious syrup they dont run as well as the maples but the taste is excellent i get a couple gallons a year
We have tried that too. It is really good
Hi! This is the first video of yours I've watched, and it was great. Thanks for posting!
A suggestion if you want to give the kids another avenue to explore the black walnuts: I just looked on Ebay and people are selling the black walnuts in the shell (dehusked) for anywhere from $7-18 per pound on Ebay.
Might be a good way in the next few years to give them a taste of entrepreneurship.
I'm curious - how much did it cost you for Hammonds to dehusk that bag of walnuts you brought home? Just curious, since the article I read mentioned they would do it, but didn't mention the fee they charge.
Thanks again!
Thanks for the idea! I can't remember how much they paid per pound, but it wasn't much.
Just found Hammons black walnuts on Amazon Canada. $64 for a 24 oz bag! If they paid you $140 for the entire truckload, that is a hell of a profit. Got me thinking about investing in some processing equipment and starting a similar business here in Canada.
Great, thx
That was a great video. I would like to purchase one of those tools
I stained a shelf with black walnut hulls without gloves...,my hands were jet black for months😂🤣
😂
Oh no! I just picked up a few yesterday and pulled the husk off... now my hands look like a mechanic and it's not coming off. 😂😂😂
Been there 😂
Sorry late question here. Can you gather nuts on ground from the previous year??? Or is it best to rake away the old nuts before this seasons nuts hit the ground? Thanks a bunc
Hmm that's a good question. I would Crack one open and see how it tastes.
Good luck!!
Answers to your questions: Yes, but stuff sitting on the ground for a year tends to be subprime. Yes/no. It might be best to ignore last year's nuts and focus on this year's nuts.
Thank you
Any idea what they'd pay if you brought them already hulled?
I don't think they negotiate prices.
A person brings nuts to Hammons with the hulls still on them. They run them thru their machine. A person gets paid for the result. So, you would get the same $ if you brought them hulled nuts but..... I doubt they would buy hulled nuts because they would have no easy way to know how old they are and how they were stored.
I actually looked up the video to see how people were picking them up.. answered✅
Just curious if you know what they do with all the removed husk. I’m sure some could go into making stains. I sure hope that none of it ends up in compost. That would be the death of anything planted in it.
I’d like to see the video where you crack the walnuts.
great suggestion! coming soon!
I pick up and process 2-5 gal buckets every year or so. There is no way I'd do much more than that. And there is no place around here to sell them.
I have been selling to Hammons for many years back whe they were 10 dollars a 100 pounds this year they were 16 dollars a 100 pounds wasn't able to do it this year
You make it look easy. How do you know these walnuts are good. White magnets are in the hulls when green. This larva has to get back into the ground. For next years Webb worms in the trees. Later.
That shell is the toughest nut shell I've ever cracked into. The larvea find their way back into the ground. And you are bound to break an ankle with thousands of golf ball sized nuts in your lawn. Best to clean them up!
I rake the walnuts to get her. By hand. Take the hulls of with a corn scheller. Wash and tumble. Air dry in haveheart trap. Keep squirrels. From robbing them. Crack when needed. Hulls go to trash can. Ship to the dump . This stops incests from coming back next year. Web worms. You have to break the cycle of the maggot worm. Pears 🍐 work the same way. Do not put in compost pile. You will double your incest troubles. Clean up. Mess in yard. In 3 years you will have a better. Pear to can. Walnuts are the same way. No spraying. Using chemicals. Later.
My walnuts go from green to mush real quick.
thats what yay want... they are easier to deskill just put them in a cement mixer or a classifier + pressure washer / house set up and you got a lot of clean black walnuts!
Yes the outer bit comes right off.
I just though what that walnuts but not think about it, I dont think about that.
shoud i pick walnuts up keep put bags and we all clean throw trash 😬 for nothing few day ago oops.
I should keep give my mom want all my own house have big till the tree black walnuts. I will take pick black walnuts keep it and next time again❤
The music is too loud; can barely hear you. Otherwise, love the video - thank you!!!!
Thank you!
I make a salve out❤ of them and it is good for ringworms-acne-athletes foot
You make the slave out of the flesh of the walnut? That sounds amazing
@@jenilee.thepioneerhome not slaves..lol Girl!
You can't pick them green?
Can we order from you?
Sorry I don't sell. But that is a good idea.
i have black walnuts for sale you you want there nice and clean
How much does the Hammonds company pay for the walnuts?
$16 per 100lbs after they’re husked by them. I’ve found a 5 gallon buckets holds 24 lbs on average, a husked walnut on average is 44% of the weight of the walnut. So roughly 10 five gallon buckets will get you $16
Half a pickup truck bead.....is 150 lbs after being hulled......$24.
said is 16.00 for 10 5 gallon buckets😅😅
Cracking the walnuts and getting the meat out was almost impossible for me.
Yes! I know the struggle!
Hammer time is the only way it works for me
Bench vice works for me. There are also lever action nut crackers you can get that work for black walnuts.
A little over a hundred for 700 lbs is IMO getting robbed. They will sell them at a huge profit being they are not English Walnuts, and they are organic.
That’s not a bad price, considering that picking them up is the easy part. These have a husk, and a shell before you get to the meat. The outer husk stains everything it touches green, and isn’t the easiest thing to remove, and the inner shell is one of the hardest to crack. The final product is probably less meat than a pecan
@@dan27052 Hulls are not as difficult to remove as you seem to be leaning towards.
The shell while is a "hard" one if dried out enough they are not that bad to crack either. As for the amount of meat, I've never paid attention against a pecan.
@@2olvets443 Ok, then I have a business idea for you. You could give her double for her load, then shell and crack them, and probably still make a good amount on them? You seem to have the knack for it better then anyone else I know, might be you niche’.
Black walnuts go for around $10/lbs here in Western PA. 700lbs for $140?!
Yikes.
Yea those prices are waay low I wish I could be that company
You guys wanna set up a huller in PA? They can't be that expensive.
Where in Pa ? I got a feed sack full
I think you got hosed
many of the black walnuts have grubs in them.....
yeah its a common issue if they many are left on the ground, thats why they should be hulled immediately after harvest
I have never found one to penitrate the shell.
It’s all profit just cost your time
Hi Jenilee I am Mayur from India and I am in California to buy Walnuts for my country can you contact me !