Harvesting shagbark & shellbark hickory nuts

[@AbeedBasheer]

Nice video of your harvesting shagbark & shellbark hickory nuts is given. Enjoyed and liked. 9:15

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thank you very much!

[@UKscrapper]

Great information nice havest of nuts great tip with the water never new that

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@pacificpermaculture]

Looks like a rewarding way to spend time ! ! !

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thank you for watching !

[@womanwomanhomesteadliasmit2118]

Excellent Harvest❤️Thanks for sharing

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thank you so much for watching ladies !

[@titostrainingtips6535]

Outstanding video Irene. I truly enjoyed it because it was very informative and you took us step by step in understanding the process from tree to being able to eat it.

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thank you so much !

[@BRIANOKEEFFE1]

Thanks so much! I have 3 huge shag barks. every fall it takes about 2 days with a shop vac to get them off of the grass. probably like 100-150 lbs but i have been just burning them. had no idea they were edible and people actually want them! Cant wait till next fall!

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

They are harder to shell than the larger type of nuts,, but to me ,, they are very tasty ( between pecan and walnut). I just put on a movie and sit to shell a very large bag for baking ! Thanks for watching.

[@jenaleman0701]

Very informative! I didn’t know that the ones that float are no good.

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Yes, it's nice to know that you can pick them up from the ground even if they look black, but are ok by sinking to the bottom !

[@FoodForestPermaculture]

Very cool .

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thank you so much for watching !

[@Harpo_Jo]

Wow: Thanks for the great insights you've shared. I live in the concrete "jungle" of Chicago! This is definitely a different rhythm and life Source.♥️

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Awww,,, Thank you so much for watching Josefe Marie !

[@TomiaMacQueen]

So helpful thank you!

[@homesteadaquarius]

This was fun! No telling how many hours I have spent acting like a squirrel, eating hickory nuts. Busting fingers and finding a worm beat me to it. You just taught me about the floating and sinking trick. I never thought to do that with hickory nuts! If you get enough to make a hickory nut pie, try that. Like pecan pie just hickory nuts. Great stuff! You folks have a pretty place.

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thank you so much ,new friend ! I will try the pie . You should see how many nuts we get daily !

[@hasve978]

I have a few of these trees on my lot. I cut down one tree in my way in Aug. The nuts form that downed tree grew twice the size of the ones falling off the tree now.

[@TheLaughingLion]

wow i enjoyed watching the harvesting processes. I just get mine at the market so seeing this is amazing. Hello from Las Vegas! New supporter #1.94K+🔔

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thanks for watching!

[@JustLiving2018]

Irene, I cannot wait to have nuts and fruit trees. This is a wonderful bounty. I like your drying basket to help with preservation. It looks like fun to me. My grandfather had a black walnut tree in their yard and we would pick them up and he would let us hit them with hammers. It was so much fun, it didn't seem like work at all. Lol

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

~~~ It is fun for the grandkids mainly... I did not put them in the video , but they mainly did all the work ( only because they had so much fun, and we payed then for collecting them every day ) I hang them from dollar underwear mesh bags and move them around a couple of times a day . I also have 4 black walnut trees, but I gave up on those. They stain and are harder to crack !

[@globalcrochetknittingandbe9772]

l like

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Thank you so much !

[@daybraeburn6172]

I would stand to hammer the husks...

[@guttersnipechum]

Do you have problems with your shellbark nuts developing hairline cracks while drying? My husband and I harvested the nuts from our yard for the first time this year and the shagbark nuts didn't devlop the cracks but the shellbark did. I am trying to find more about this but I'm finding zero literature on it anywhere.

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

~~ Thank you for your question.~~~ No , we did not get any cracks.... maybe because we brought them inside to dry slowly ( because we have so many squirrels). That would be the only reason that I can think. Hope yours taste good !

[@guttersnipechum]

@@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN Thank-you for your response! I read somewhere in the depths of KZbin (after I posted this question here) that the hairline cracks had everything to do with the drying speed, which is what you're hinting at, as well, and what I think very much so aligns with what has been going on with our shellbark drying processes. (The shell dries out faster than the nut itself, resulting in stress fracturesl.) The shellbark nuts that I hung from a hook over the furnace register developed HUGE cracks, the nuts I put over the cold air flow from the air purifier developed medium cracks, while the nuts I hung over the counter developed very few or none. (No register or artificial air flow here.) The newest shellbark batch I just gathered a few days ago I decided to let dry in the cold (but dry) garage. I'm hoping that by controlling the environment enough, we can prevent the cracks from developing! (Meaning, a more successful storage.) I'm on a mission, lol. I'll let you know how it goes, as I can't be the only one with this issue and one day, someone just like me, who can't find a single thing online about premature shellbark cracks, is going to come here and figure out exactly what is happening and why! Thanks again for your response! From one harvester to another: ❤❤❤!

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

@@guttersnipechum ~~~ Thank you for. your findings and letting me know,,, and like you said , people need to know... So please make a video of this because it's important. ~~~~ Blessings ,,, Irene

[@guttersnipechum]

UPDATE: It has been a week an a half and those same nuts drying in the cold and isolated garage have not developed a SINGLE crack yet. At this point, it truly appears that too much heat, airflow and/or possibly sunlight dries them out too quickly and they crack open as a result. But if you dry them in a controlled environment (basement, celler, etc) they do not crack!

[@CoffeyOutdoors]

the squirrels are eating hickory nuts like crazy here right now

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

So my friend,,, that means that you have very fat squirrels ,,, just like mine ! LOL !

[@BobMelsimpleliving.]

Good morning Irene. I have noticed y'all seem to wear the mosquito nets on your hats. Do you have a big problem with mosquitos? Those nuts look really easy to crack out of the shells. Best wishes Bob.

[@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN]

Yes Bob , the mosquitos love us ! Right now though the bees are a nuisance ! They are everywhere and if we get close to their nests, they attack the face !

[@Raven-rf7cz]

i would sit under the tree with my grandpa and grandma him with a brick and a hammer and me with a bobby pin of my grandmas laugh talk eat hickory nuts. man i miss the simple days.