Fall Foraging, and Cracking Hickory Nuts

Hey guys, here is a little foraging for fall bounty, and how I crack my hickory nuts. Thanks for watching, and God bless.................J

[@kimchigerbil7437]

I love to forage! Nothing makes me happier than free food!

[@PriscillaSwaney]

A lot of work, but they are free and taste sooooooooo good. Thanks for sharing.

[@MindfullyMindy]

There is something comforting about the repetition of cracking nuts and digging out their meat. I've loved doing this since I was young. I'm sure your kids like it too. You are innovative and a man who is using wisdom to care for his family.

[@gardeningwithaloha5573]

I love to go foraging thanks for sharing!

[@LifeinFarmland]

I love fall. Nothing makes home feel like home more then spending time outside all day in the cool weather and coming into a nice warm house. Wish Hickory Trees grew by us. Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy your videos.

[@BlessedFarm]

What a wonderful video that you for sharing with all, God Bless

[@TheVictoryHomestead]

My favorite video so far! Thanks for bringing us along John! :) xox

[@Dave-vm8rr]

I like that you say, I LOVE LIFE, not too many people say that anymore.....I LOVE LIFE too my friend.....We have five hickory nut trees in our back yard in SC and we eat them until we get tired of digging the meat out....We enjoy your channel....Blessings to you and your family!!!!!

[@628DirtRooster]

Foraging looks fun. I don't know anyone around me who knows what to look for in wild plants for edible stuff.

[@Rebekahdavignon]

+628DirtRooster - Start with Euell Gibbons' book Stalking the Wild Asparagus, then get the other three. He was a very good writer with good illustrations and stories (also recipes).

[@628DirtRooster]

Rebekah Davignon Wow! Thanks. I see they are old books. Plenty of used ones on Amazon and Ebay.

[@ShawnHennesseystuff]

Dude, I learn soon much. Thank you :)

[@peteduel1]

How blessed you are living the way you do. To walk out of your home and see wildlife.

[@df3photo]

thanks for the tips! I'll be heading out this weekend!

[@lynnen264]

What a lovely place to be J Lovin that big beard!!

[@BacktoBasicsGal]

Looks like Michigan in the fall. Enjoy the day!

[@horseypeeps5382]

While I don't think I have those type trees on my coming property, I'll sure enjoy exploring soon. Your very blessed John. Thanks for sharing everything that you do. - AJ

[@mrklw1978]

love rose hip tea

[@GatorLife57]

Great video !Wado for sharing.ENJOY....THE SIMPLE. LIFE

[@johnkollar7103]

The pick your using is a seam ripper. I was raised in Athens Co. I sure miss the hills. Like your videos, reminds me of my childhood back home. Keep them coming.

[@OzarklivingHomestead]

You are lucky to have wild nut trees on your property . I have black walnut trees and persimmon trees on our property. We are getting ready to plant some chestnut trees. Have a good day

[@MrCanofpeas]

+Ozark living Homestead Check out the Heartnut tree also

[@cathyspeerly4997]

Great video. We have several hickory trees in our yard but the squirrels eat every one of them. Time to take us some squirrels! We make squirrel pie and freeze them.

[@eckankar7756]

We use to crack hickory nuts when I was a kid in Athens County Ohio. It took a load of nuts to get a bit of meat out of them. My grandmother would make hickory nut cake with a burnt sugar hickory nut frosting. It was so good, i can remember the taste now.

[@nancycoy9510]

Nuts are so expensive glad you have a tree near by for harvesting! Great video very informative!

[@madamesophia2004]

My grandma used to oven can nuts to get them shelf stable longer. She was a true child of the Great Depression and taught me a lot. I wish I'd paid closer attention and taken notes

[@catsbob78r.52]

Super Great Video ! Beautiful Gorgeous Country. Thank you for ALL you do ! God Bless You and Your Family. Cathy

[@bernvanlilydaisy]

looking GOOD... thank for sharing your knowledge with our family... bless you and yours too †♥

[@Ladyshystar]

What you are teaching your kid's is invaluable. Hopefully they will pass it on to theirs Here in lower KY we have a lot of Black Walnuts. Have to pull your baby sledge out for them. TY :-)

[@OkieRob]

I need to go out and gather some black walnuts. I use a shop vice to crack them. It gives you a little more control on the pressure and they don't shatter so bad.

[@MrCanofpeas]

+OkieRob check out walnutsaw.com

[@OkieRob]

little pricey for my budget

[@MrCanofpeas]

I guess it depends on how many a person cracks in a yr. x the number of years used minus a cracked tooth from a shell / the number of hrs invested total.

[@kimchigerbil7437]

+OkieRob I have always used a good ol hammer. Kinda rough on the thumb though if your not careful!

[@trevorfillmore698]

I wish I had someone i could get tips from for mushrooms the old timers just didn't eat them here but there is mushrooms that I think are what I think they are but I won't try them because of the mild case of death great video.

[@BornRandy62]

+Trevor Fillmore here there is a division of the USDA in the local area. Used to be one in every county now they are regional covering 3 to 5 counties. They are called Extension services. They are teamed up with the local Agriculture Mechanical college lots of A and Ms around event if the only one that still uses the letters is Texas. This one is teamed up with Iowa State University. Anyway they have experts on Food Preservation, Bugs, Diseases in wild animals, Diseases in livestock critters, Mushrooms among many other topics. many of them have an online presence too. But the point is the info is free. I wouldnt be surprised if Canada has a similar program. People here dont realize that it is available free info they just have to ask for.

[@trevorfillmore698]

Thanks Randy I've never thought of going that root I've looked up some and there is mushrooms here that look like what I look at online but I'm still nervous to eat them we own about 300 acres of old growth forest and at the end of summer the floor is covered with lots of different mushrooms some look like lobster and some look like chanterelles thanks for the tip.

[@Grizz270]

+Trevor Fillmore I went to my local forestry , that had a laminated flyer showing edible and non edible mushrooms for our area had to pay 5 bucks for it , I take it with m e when I'm in the woods for any reason

[@BornRandy62]

for every edible there is a look alike that is non edible or poisonous.

[@trevorfillmore698]

grizz270 Thank you very much I'll one.

[@BethGrantDeRoos]

We have been harvesting shaggy mane/coprinus comatus, as well as almonds and then English walnuts on an old abandoned homestead. We have an excellent mycological society locally. We save the nut shells and burn in the wood stove. Fall is such a favorite time for us with the nip in the air and foods we forage being so abundant. Now that we have had some great rain here in the Sierra we will be digging some young cattail roots which are like water chestnuts. Do you ever harvest cattails or in the spring the young fiddlehead ferns which can only be picked herd when the heads are tightly wound up? Mushroom kits make a nice Christmas gift.

[@MichellesCraftsandMore]

I learned how to do that using a towel and a hammer because hickory nuts are so darned hard! LOL

[@janpenland3686]

I love your method of cracking hickory nuts. It sure beats my two brick method! lol I remember one year making a pie with them for Thanksgiving and used my pecan pie recipe. It took forever to get enough to make the pie. My family was appreciative and couldn't believe I went to all that trouble for the pie. It really was delicious though and well worth the effort.

[@Scorpiomary]

I paid for my rose hips I. boil and make tea for winter morning tea. you are fortunate to be able to harvest them fresh. Beautiful day

[@pandora022428]

Loved the foraging video! Can you do another?

[@Linda204]

I have to say they are my favorite but I will also say they are the hardest to pick out of the shell but way worth it I love in fudge and make pies don’t joke 😳 Bigfoot maybe competition for your food lol

[@StBernardAcres]

I have a bunch of those "rose hips". I was wondering what they were. Thanks. Gonna have to take some pictures of the mushrooms we have out there and see what you think they are. Thanks John! Let's see.....shaggy mushrooms, shaggy hickory nut trees, a shaggy beard.....I'm starting to see a pattern here lol

[@Ladyshystar]

+Homestead Dreams At St. Bernard Acres When we were living in Colorado we gathered these every year. Ours were bigger, sweet tasting, and we drank the tea all winter. I never got sick then. I'll have to see what grows here in this region. :-)

[@Rebekahdavignon]

+Homestead Dreams At St. Bernard Acres - you should really consult a book that has good pictures before eating them. You might contact your state's agricultural college. Most only charge a dollar or two for pamphlets. Of course, if it's online - it's free.

[@countrylivingeoregonstyle6145]

Thank you so much for sharing, I'm not sure if we have Hickory Nuts here but we have several different types of nuts that grow in Oregon , Good to know what they look like.

[@kimchigerbil7437]

Where i grew up our yard had lots of walnut trees. We would collect and dry the nuts. After we had separated the less dry nut from the hull our hands would be black for days from walnut hull stains!

[@OurHalfAcreHomestead]

Rose hips are excellent tea for vitamin C!

[@frankgarner1415]

Hey there John,tell us about your tattoos, we're Interested. 👍

[@TheOldLookOutLodge]

I love to watch your videos. I wonder why someone would "dislike" any of them. You are a good man, and I have been learning many things from you over the last few months. I hope to have my family as well as yours soon. More learning, more doing.. Please continue with these wonderful videos. The more I watch, the closer we get to peace. I wonder if any of your viewers come from western N.Y. like us? Specifically, Livingston County?

[@jomurphey]

Rosehips mixed with raspberry leaves makes a rosy, vitamin packed drink, but just like Kool-aid add sugar or stevia.

[@owlsnaturalways]

Thank you for the info. I need to educate myself more on mushrooms. I found out something interesting though on Walnuts. I had bought a large box of some wild ones years ago from someone & they were big ones. Anyway, I had ate some & forgot about them. They were stored on the back porch. I went to taste them (7 yrs. later) & they were just as good as when I got them. Secret is you have to leave them in the husks for storage (not just shell). I love discovering things by accident :)

[@atc123ism]

mild case of death, is Darwins way of tellong you you won a award

[@FiresideCoffee]

GM John. Here is a suggestion for you, save your Hickory nut shells and use them with your Hickory wood for smoking meats :)

[@backhomeprepper]

Coprinus comatus known as the shaggy ink cap or shaggy mane was valued for its black pigment that was used in the past as an ink. In the Traditional Chinese Medicine it is used to treat diabetes, circulatory disease, digestive disorders, and piles. It has a very high lectin activity, contains the antioxidant ergothioneine, and shows strong anti-tumor activity in hormone dependent tumors. It also helps to regulate glucose levels.

[@lindasmith6202]

Your "nut remover" is called a seam ripper. Also the thrift stores often have trays of all kinds of kitchen tools; you can often find little gizmos designed for digging out nutmeats. They usually cost about a dime. That herd of deer was so beautiful. Better watch out for that Sasquatch; you're gettin' kind of shaggy & he/she might be looking for love.

[@Chickenfoothomestead]

LOL "A mild case of...death"

[@lechatbotte.]

It's a seam ripper lol. Great secondary use! My hubby took mycology in college from the man who wrote the book on mushrooming and identifying. Technical term? Mycologist? Wish we had more mushrooms that grow here, hubby loves shaggy manes.

[@markdesrochers7700]

As always a great video. I havn't seen any shaggy mains in my area, but I did get about 20lbs of hens of the woods and I didn't have to walk very far...lol. Put them in the dehydrator for future use.

[@hawknives]

All that hunting and you finally found your nuts! Over here, hen/chicken of the woods is found on north facing mountantains, in the shade. Great Show Brother! Thank You! Christ Bless

[@alicelewis7261]

did you know you can dry out the hauls and use them to build a fire with makes good kilning we use them all the time another great video I love the woods we live in Tenn on a farm we have hickory nuts ,walnuts ,bark nuts,we use them for the Holidays for cakes ,pecan pies candy the are a lot of things to use them for blessings to you and your family.

[@KittyMewKat]

Do you save the shells for any uses? I keep filbert shells for starting fires.

[@Mixwell1983]

Seems like a box underneath a bench vise would work well too. I just moved to TN a few months ago and have recently found I have a hickory tree and a shag bark hickory. I was wonderin what the hell the things were dropping outta the trees here. Good to know theyre eatible nuts

[@twicebitten260]

Hey John....the hickory nuts reminds me of my mother who passed just a few weeks ago. She was happy to make hickory nut pancakes ON REQUEST as long as we did the cracking!! One of those memories that just slips by until a certain something jogs your memory.

[@theoldmanvn66]

MY place is in Gallia Co. and it's the shagbark I have a lot off. Seam like we will have some every year and then Boom you can't walk for fear of tripping on them in a other year. As you said this is a good year. There is a lot out there if people would just get out and walk around and get the kids out too. Folks will look up one day and think how did I get this old with so many things I wanted to do.

[@BornRandy62]

save your nut shells. they make great grit for winter traction in mud snow and ice. Biodegradable and lighter weight than sand to carry a bagfull in the truck or car.

[@HWhit9000]

You're lucky to have a shag bark hickory near you. There are two types of hickory trees and the common hickory, that most people are familiar with, the nuts are too bitter for human consumption. Whereas the shag bark hickory nuts can be eaten directly with no bitter taste. The loose bark from the shag bark hickory can also be made into a syrup, with a flavor much like (but I like better than) maple syrup.

[@marekwieckowski7038]

I was told years ago that all mushrooms are edible, some only once.

[@supermoon1430]

Do you grow aloe verna for sun burns

[@wallaceknifeworkshomestead]

Sasquatch lives there? I gots to come visit now :)

[@valentegonzalez65]

nuezes..

[@DonnaMSchmid]

I bet those metal picks that dentists use would be ideal for removing the nut meats... I understand most dentists will give you some of their old (no longer usable) ones for free, if you ask them to save them for you!

[@supermoon1430]

I have 5 hickory nut trees on my property all right next to each other

[@Rebekahdavignon]

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't collect acorns along the way.

[@charlesmcclain1489]

find any beech nuts

[@livingready69]

Please make a video on shagbark hickory arthritis treatment

[@buzzsah]

Before we had the boys the deer would come up within 10 ft of us and watch us work around the yard.

[@MsPierre200]

Those deer will not be around when hunting season comes around. Seems they know your armed.

[@BornRandy62]

this was a bad year for nuts for us. We have 4 black walnut trees and the neighbors have 6 more. we didnt get a June drop at all and the fall drop was light.

[@kyangie3144]

A seam ripper is what your seeing tool is called I've never seen those nuts but do get out and pick up the black walnuts when I can

[@wesbass75]

mild case of you know Death..lol

[@jportale]

Can you use those hickory outer hulls in a smoker? This video reminded me of being a kid collecting hickory and chestnuts. Granma would roast them up. Good eatin'.

[@jeffxl12]

Mushroom picking is a lost art. My dad was taught by his. I love mushrooms but will leave it to the grocery store. :) Yeah do some research before thinking you can go off into the woods thinking you know it all.

[@sheliajones5510]

Southeastern Ohio does have Sasquatch they are in The Wayne National Forest and around Athens people need to know this before camping,hiking,fishing,hunting,if you don,t believe I understand i didn,t either until I saw them and had encounters with them for the last 4 years.

[@livingready69]

How do you hull your walnuts and crack them? I use a corn sheller to hull them and that works pretty good. I use a vice to crack them and that is tedious. I crack my hickory nuts similar to you and that is tedious too.

[@gwenr.3009]

Seam ripper.......

[@mneff69]

Hickory trees are also good for smoking your meat by adding flavor to your meat. I don't know about your trees but our hickory trees only produce nuts every other year

[@windymcgee6833]

Bigfoot are all over Ohio

[@stercloud235]

where I am from we eat them right off the bush.

[@stercloud235]

do you have any Turtles when you touch them?

[@ppger44]

Are your neighbors homesteaders too?

[@ew6318]

that little sewing tool your using is called a seam ripper

[@Magpiesandshooflies]

Did I miss the contest winners?

[@Magpiesandshooflies]

Ok thank you!

[@ozarkmountaingirl8620]

mild case of death lol, pretty much DRT huh? dead-right-there

[@DesertDigger1]

Your camera seems to have focusing issues lately J.

[@atc123ism]

you used to watch road runner cartoons didn't you? Mushroomicus eatitcuus

[@JaswantSingh-bz5yo]

you are great , where abouts are u . I love ur show . would u like to visit me in Vancouver bc ?