It's Time for Hickory Nuts!!

[@According2kai]

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

[@chrisegnoto]

Glad to hear that. I love to enjoy some wild edibles!

[@jesb5784]

Excellent informative video. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@lindamesa4941]

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

[@chrisegnoto]

Lol, awesome story. Now I'm hungry :)

[@gobigrey9352]

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.

[@JC-ft5or]

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.

[@chrisegnoto]

Wow, sounds beautiful. I would so love to have a cabin! Those nuts might be Butternut hickory. Are they slightly oblong or ovular? If they are perfectly spherical, then they are standard hickory. There is a slight difference in taste, but as I said, they sweeten after being stored a couple months.

[@JC-ft5or]

@@chrisegnoto Thank you for the info!

[@mike-yp1uk]

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

[@moochythecat3435]

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.

[@crappiesniper]

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?

[@Horsegirly432]

very helpful thanks

[@megalodongle]

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

[@MTknitter22]

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

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, I do. They take a little while to lose the green. Just store them somewhere

[@WearySecret]

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?

[@chrisegnoto]

Yes you can. Thank you for bringing my awareness to that. Never heard about it before and just researched it. I am going to have to harvest some tomorrow since I will literally be filming a video in the same patch of woods I made this video in. Thanks again for asking me about that!

[@CeeGeeCee77]

Lol

[@marygrinter4878]

@@chrisegnoto after you've made your syrup, you can use the bark to smoke meat too. so many uses!

[@beebop9808]

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.

[@igris6128]

Great job man extremely interesting

[@chrisegnoto]

Thanks!!

[@holdernewtshesrearin5471]

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!

[@gblackburn31]

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.

[@jennyguenther745]

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... :(

[@chrisegnoto]

Maybe fine how they are, so long as it doesn't get worse or anything. Once the outer husk dries, you can crack that off and leave the shells on until ready to use.

[@GuentherJohnny]

@@chrisegnoto ok, thanks a lot!

[@joesmith7427]

Where are these trees at??

[@chrisegnoto]

Widespread throughout Pa.

[@remnantfewministriesminist495]

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

[@chrisegnoto]

NP, they often skip a year but not always. Let me know it you get any, they are so good!

[@remnantfewministriesminist495]

Nature Now! - Chris Egnoto ..Yes, I found some! Thanks.

[@joesmith7427]

Around here where??

[@chrisegnoto]

Pretty much any mixed deciduous forest in the North East is a good place to look

[@kisansarathiorganic]

How to hickory nuts farming in India

[@chrisegnoto]

Wow, cool

[@rodney73991]

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.

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, I like the aged ones too. Thanks for watching!

[@ICOWBOYIM]

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. 🐷+🌰=🤠

[@chrisegnoto]

Great isea, I wonder about squirrels eating them, too. That is interesting and makes a lot of sense.

[@varun009]

Can you smoke meat with the shells?

[@johnlayjr.3999]

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!

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, I agree, or butternut, but so many people don't know the tast of those, so I say walnut lol

[@oldcountryman2795]

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