did anybody else notice how trippy the walnut looks as he turns it???

Black walnuts are the truffles of the nut world. Also, any banana bread made with black walnuts are insanely good.

I grew up eating black walnuts. My family always harvested the black ones, never green, We never wore gloves to husk them. I was not alone in school with my black hands. Nearly every kind in school had stained hands. I loved the flavor of black walnuts in cookies, ice cream and nut bread.

The green husk can be used as a fish pioson that stun the fishes respiratory system. You fill a mesh potato sack up with husk and rocks. Place the bag upstream of your saining net. The fish will float to the top of the water to your net. You get about five uses out of a bag. Harvest the fish, clean'em then salt'em or smoke"em. It's a good winter store. Also take them black husk and fill a coffee can half full. Then add linseed oil let it set a week. Take a old potato smasher mash them husk then strain out the husk pieces. You'll have yourself a damn fine high yield wood stain.

As a kid growing up with black walnuts, I can tell you from experience that they do indeed stain everything. Also, good soap and scrubbing doesn't work, you have to wait a week for it to go away.

You can use the darkened water as a dye. Example: rinse your black jeans or tee-shirts in the "dye" with a cup or so of vinegar...let them soak for a day (or two, if you wish), changing their position in the water often....and let them dry completely on a clothesline in fresh air. Repeat the process again if you want a deeper or more even color. Always wash jeans "inside out" in cold water...and hang them "inside out" on the clothesline to prevent too much fading from sunlight. (I NEVER use an electric dryer....clothes dry for free on a clothesline, and they retain a better texture...just shake them out and fold as you take them off the line. If you use a clothesline your clothing will also last much longer, and stay in better condition. The hot air and tumbling in the dryer breaks down fabrics and wears out your clothes much quicker than actually wearing them will. All that "lint" in your dryer is actually the fibers of your clothing wearing away in the dryer. If you use a clothesline inside your house in the winter/heating season: your household air receives necessary added moisture to keep your skin, hair, and respiratory tract healthier....and the bit of extra humidity in the air helps to keep your home warmer for a longer time. If you use a clothesline...it's a win, win, win!! You save money on your electricity bill...your clothes last longer...and mother earth gets a little break, too.) ~RED ☮♥♫

Had no idea what these were until I watched this video. Used to have trees in my backyard that dropped them everyday, but never tried opening them. What a surprise lol

Growing up, we filled bushel baskets with walnuts from the tree in our back yard, then put in basement and waited for the walnuts to turn black. Then we took outside and stomped on them to remove all the outer flesh, then back to the basement. Just before Christmas, we would have a craving party - using hangers on the basement floor (there was a walnut oil stain where we did this). Great memories!

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When he was moving the walnut around it was like the trippiest thing.

No joke! I was in Auburn, NY at the William Seward House Museum, and came across these fruit in their yard. Next day, your video came up on my feed! Thank you for doing the video and Thank you NSA, for knowing what I’m doing when not watching KZfaq videos! 🤪

walnuts are wonderful, i'm nuts about walnuts, black walnuts are my favorite we had 11 black walnut trees i was in charge of growing up - good video

We used to just lay them out in the sun to dry. Never had to wash them - the skins would dry up so much they easily came off leaving no residue on the shell.

me and my bros used to throw thease at each other lol

I'm from Turkey and walnuts are one of the things we produce the most. This video reminded me working in those fields. We used to get up early, collect walnuts until almost afternoon, taking a nap and playing with my friends, spending our hard earned good paid salary for the day.

I grew up gathering and eating black walnuts from the area where I grew up. Watching the video, I could smell the aroma of the green flesh of recently fallen walnuts in my mind. I always liked that smell and loved the flavor of black walnuts. It's still a favorite ice cream flavor (we made homemade black walnut ice cream a couple of times too).

Great job on this! Plan to do this in the fall!

At my grandparents 'farm there were English black walnut trees, and I used to gather them up to take home and husk - sometimes did that while at my Grandparent's place. Black walnuts are far superior to English walnuts -much better flavor!

When I first moved to the country, I planted a boatload of pecan, almond, and hazelnuts. There are already several dozen walnuts. I gotta say, harvesting and opening nuts is labor intensive.

Ahhhh natures treasures! I rented a house w a Black walnut tree. I waited w anticipation for the peak of their season,only to find one day I came home & someone had harvested ALL the fruits. The outer hulls to me have a pine tupe smell. They can be used as a natural hair dye. Also black walnut hull is one of the 3 required components of a proper anti parasitic

Great video! :-) And yes, gloves are a MUST... unless you enjoy green stains that turn a nasty shade of brown. LOL Whatever you do, don't pour water off of them anywhere you want other trees to grow. The acidic chemicals prevent other trees from growing within the drip-line of a black walnut. My tribe (the Muscogee Creek Indians) once used the green hulls to fish with. You can net, or bag the fresh, green hulls, and place them across a stream. The chemicals in the hulls will make the fish that are downstream float to the top. :-) My great grandmother made the best black walnut cookies ever! They make great cakes, cookies, candies, etc. Just use them as you would hickory nuts, pecans, or english walnuts. They are well worth the effort it takes to process the meats.

you can use the shells as fire material and the used - colored water as a dye.

I guess the smell of walnut fruit is 'citrusy' but it is also astringent smelling, and VERY strong.

walnut spread (like peanutbutter but made from walnuts) 1 c walnut meat 1 tsp coconut oil 1-3 tsp honey or agave syrup (to taste) (I use the bullet grinder/blender hubby got me last year for this). First grind the nut meats good. Then add the coconut oil and put on blender attachment a couple pulses at a time and a rubber scraper to stir. Slowly add honey to personal liking, only a couple 2 or 3 pulses on the bullet blender, take lid off, stir with a scraper, attach and blend. keep going until it's all blended together good the consistency of peanut butter.

Another thing about Black Walnuts is that if you have a tree within 50 feet of a tomato plant, the fruit of the tomato will never ripen, it will rot and fall off the vine long before it has a chance to ripen. Black Walnut trees are also a source of fine furniture wood and also prized as gun stock making too, and as such demands a high dollar amount in lumber yards. Also those that has a lot of Black Walnut trees are sitting on a gold mine if they are of proper size in diameter

After watching your video on how to use cattail root to make bread (mixed with extenders, although definitely not the goldenrod), I would think adding walnuts and/or berries along with would make them a hardy treat. :D

I once had some walnuts that got buried in the rafters of my garage and I only found them seven yrs later 80 percent of them were still eatable I was amazed and pleased

My mom and I would forage black walnuts and do the whole drying, hulling, and everything. And have so many for Christmas desserts. One way we learned how to protect our hands from Some of the stain was by spraying cooking spray on our hands. Bc we would let them go completely black and the stain would sink into the rubber gloves and stain our hands. But I'm very glad to know we should keep them somewhat green. These nuts bring back so many good memories and I always get excited to see a black walnut tree.

There is a black walnut tree not too far from my home, we usually just go and pick the ones on the ground and wash them we eat the ones that float right away.. they are really good and taste awesome in oatmeal and cereal snacks or just by themselves.

There is a lot of uses for the green husk of the walnut. An old gentleman (his mother was a Native American medicine woman)a long time ago showed me how to use the green husk to cure what we in the south call ground itch. It's something like athlete foot. Another interesting fact is if you best the green nuts up in a burlap bag and put in a stream or pond...the white milky juice will kill fish and they float up to the top (illegal in about every state) so don't try that! LOL

I've seen these all around I never knew you could eat them .. Thank so much it's fall now and I'll bet I can find a big bag and get some free food! Thank you so much for teaching us this ..

My dad and I used to go to the forest to collect black walnuts every fall. They are a lot more effort than the english walnuts but I liked them a lot more. I do a lot of cooking now and miss those black walnuts. I have not seen them since moving to Canada's west coast. I did my walnut collecting in Alabama.

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We use to have a couple of large walnut trees in our yard. We used to collect the walnuts in late Aug and Sep when they fell and place them on our gravel driveway. By about Nov the outer husks were gone and the walnuts were ready to be collected and eaten.

Love the outdoor smell of green black walnuts.

When I was a kid, I used to go out with my parents to gather black walnuts in the fall. They were a lot of work, but oh so delicious!

I got three decent sized black walnut trees in my back yard I need to try this on this upcoming fall

This information is great. I have a farm with lots of black walnut trees. I've never known how to harvest them until now!

As a kid I was the one who harvested the black walnuts in my family because they were such a pain to shell that most adults wouldn't bother with them. There was a Christmas cookie that my mom made which contained them, a little round golf ball sized powered sugar covered nugget that made it all worth while. Something precious but lost in the past as the last time I tasted those was at least 60 years ago.

Thank you, I live next door to a black walnut tree and have for almost 20 years. Every year it drops hundreds of these things into my yard. Now I know what they are, I will be eating some.

Do what I do! Rune the fresh walnuts over with a car. Then you can peel the skin off. Let the shells dry and separate. Don't worry about washing anything. Let them dry in the sun keeping squirrels awy from them. Crack. puck out the meats and store in a jar and or plastic baggie. They are delicious!!!

Great video I've got these in my backyard and never knew how to prepare them. Thanks!

Here in Missouri we are in Black Walnut country. I have a Aunt who lives in a farm house on the family farm that was built from black walnut wood. The original farm was first settled in 1827 by the old pioneer relative. He first built built a small log cabin from walnut. Next he built a mill at the creek. In 1837 he built a 1200 sq ft house entirely out of black walnut. The house is still standing and in good shape here on the farm in central Missouri. My folks had a mature walnut tree on our property as well. We would gather the nuts and take them to our gravel driveway. We'd dump them on the drive and run over them until the hide was pulverized. Easy peasy. Lord bless you folks. Vaughn

I've been seeing those ever since I was a kid. Never tried one but I think I'm going to go gather a bucketful. Thank you for your informative video.

That's way you don't use a plastic bag to ripen fruit, or in this case black walnuts. You should use a paper bag for two to three days. This way you will get the right ripening of the fruit. Which will taste great.👍

You can also save the husks to make a really nice wood stain or clothing dye.

We are from Michigan. When I was kid, in the fall of the year, my Dad and I would collect black walnuts from the woods, then store them in our garage. They sat for a long time. When we cracked them open, they were really delicious. Made me remember my Dad. Thanks.

I have 3 large, mature walnut trees and they all produce a lot of fruit. One year I decided to harvest the walnuts and soon learned that with all the work, the mess (and how!), and time needed, it was MUCH. MUCH easier and cheaper to go to Aldi and buy all the clean, fresh, shelled walnuts you want. The squirrels happily eat my walnuts - they can have them!

I boil the green flesh in spring water; strain; cool; then stain my hair with it. The nuts are delicious months later...a win-win for the piggy bank!

black walnuts also contain iodine that can be extracted and reduced to make iodine. it isnt as pure and as strong as commercially made iodine. however that would depend on the methods used in obtaining it as to how many ppm you get per drop. due dilligence in researching it is recommended.

Thank you for the video. I recently bought a property that has black walnut trees and didn't know it until now. I have some edible items already growing and didn't know it!Thanks again.

The Outsider !!! That was an awesome lesson, thank you !!! Truly appreciate it

rub the juice on ringworm and it will go away. also crushed green ones will poison a pond,and cause fish to float to the top. also makes,great brownish red dye.

FYI Don't throw the hulls on the ground If you have the following: small dogs/cats horses rabbits or deer They will poison them also don't leave them on the ground the jugolone in it will kill grass

Great video! Thanks for helping us understand how to harvest black walnuts.

I just found a bunch of black walnut trees and am looking forward to harvesting them! Thanks for the video on how to do that. It was very useful :)

I've had these things in my yard for years and didn't know what they were, let alone edible by humans.

My home shares the land with 2 300 year old Black Walnuts. Every other year the drop.

That is so cute. I recommend heavy vinyl gloves over at least two pair of latex gloves or your hands will be black for a week Walnut stain is very powerful. I have also kept walnuts for two years they actually take on a better flavor as they age. The thing to remember with walnuts three paper shopping bags filled with walnuts with the husk is less than half of one paper bag of black walnuts without. And dumping water like that on your lawn will kill it walnuts like room to grow so there stain is toxic to other plants

I love black walnuts! My grandfather used to take me out to a place with a few trees and we would gather them up. They make the best banana nut bread ever and black walnut ice cream is great too. Black walnuts are also claimed to be excellent at fighting free radicals.

We used to have 4 black walnut trees and also a cherry and apple tree. Storms and lightening took most of them... and I can tell you it hurt to walk in the yard lol.. bees under apples that i stepped on and all the walnut shells the squirrels left in the yard. Lol But even though they are all gone now they are still giving us food, now everywhere that has Black Walnut roots grows Morel Mushrooms!

They'll stain your clothes, they're hard to crack & squirrels steal them off your back porch.

I had read in a book about plants that the green outer parts of a walnut can actually be poisonous if thrown into a lake and kill fish around it... Also, thank you for making videos like this! I've been watching so many things about living outdoors and and readig a bit of edible plants and stuff but I needed instructions of how to cook or prep them.

Thank you for this video!!! I have a HUGE Black Walnut tree in my back yard and always cussed the walnuts when they fell (many, many, many walnuts!!!). Now, I won't cuss them and throw them out!

I thought ah, I have these in my backyard... *a few moments later* ohh they take months to prepare, well nvm then.

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With 3 large trees in my father's yard for years, I made all my Christmas money by harvesting, cleaning, and selling walnuts. After years of stained fingers and dealing with slimy husks I switched to a u-pick operation and made just as much cash and got them all to clean the lawn for me.

I just wanted to say thank you for posting this. Before I watched this, I wouldn't have a clue about their existence. They've now become a winter snack for me.

If you didnt break these open and stain the crap out of your hands as a kid you didnt have an actual childhood

I thought he was gonn eat it to get hihg

For anyone who like to work with wood or make wooden spoons or wooden eating utensils, walnuts make a great wood dye without chemicals. PS - Try black walnut ice cream if ever given the chance. One of my favs!!!

I love the smell of a walnut when it has the outer shell. That black shell mixed with water or alcohol makes a great dye(for clothes or even hair)

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One of my favorite foods ! My family eat these wonderful foods everyday after school. Mom had to call us inside to get us to stop. I miss our tree. Wish i had another one.

Subscribed. Very well done, a lot of good information without excessive wordiness. Thanks and great job.

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Not worth all the trouble. Graft an English walnut onto the black and you will have wonderful clean nuts....

My grandparents had a beautiful, huge black walnut tree in their yard. My cousins would harvest and grandma would process them. I love the taste of black walnuts! It’s a bit of an acquired taste, but great in fudge and cookies.

I love black walnuts. Dad and I picked up bags of them in the fall. There are a surprising number of ways to use them in cooking.

All of these videos helped me, thank you.😊😊

Very nice video, contained very useful info. Now i can harvest black walnuts from the tree in my own backyard.

Everyday I learn something new. Thanks for sharing.

I grew up in NC and we had several of these trees in our yard. We always collected the nuts, cracked them and ate them. Once my mother made a cake with the nuts. It was really good. Sadly all of the trees have since rotted or blown over by the wind and are no longer there. They had more of an earthy sweet taste to me, but I still liked them.

Neighbor has huge black walnut tree. But you'd be hard pressed to get a walnut from it. Local squirrels have a great method for "harvesting" the nuts. Several sit on ground beneath the tree while one ore two others run the branches and release the nuts from the tree. It literally rains walnuts. Bouncing off the roofs, window awnings, etc. The squirrels on the ground grab them as they hit the ground and run them to a vacant wooded lot. They shuck the outer green skin and the bury/store the nuts for the next spring. (They fatten up on some for the winter). My brother parked his boat at my place for a couple weeks one fall before he could get it into winter storage. When he gave it a final cleaning before winter storage, he took two yard bags of nuts out of the boat. Said every possible space was packed with nuts. The squirrels got their revenge over the next week or so. Several cars within a few houses around the tree had to have chewed wires fixed. Yes, ours was one of them.

Oh does this bring back memories... my Slovenian grandma would have us pick / collect from her trees.... she would make potica pastry at holidays using these nuts

I have several black walnut trees on my property and found the large lime looking nuts a nuisance when they would fall to the ground in the fall.... I really never considered harvesting them. I certainly will do that this year and hopefully be able to enjoy the nuts. Thank you very much for showing me how to do this 😊

Wow I am surprised to see this, SO many people think black walnuts are just another type of trashwoods but Ive told friends that if they like nuts black walnuts are great! My grandmother never liked to buy her walnuts, she liked to crack and pick black walnuts to bake with sometimes Id help her even thought I never ate them

I literally throw thousands of this things over the fence every year for critters to munch on. Maybe I'll save a few this fall. Thanks for the great video!

I love black walnuts, we had two black walnut trees around our house when I was growing up and they still produce nuts to this day, some people don't like the flavor I guess it's an acquired taste, they are hard to obtain because the nut is very hard to crack, I did learn some things here that I didn't know especially about being able to tell the bad ones from the good ,be careful though because the black dye that leeches from the ripining flesh is poisonous and I remember that we had a horse and a donkey that drank water that had become blackened by these that had fallen in their trough and died! It make a strong dye!

Very interesting. We just planted a black walnut tree about 2 1/2 years ago, and already had some small fruit. Might be big enough next year to give you tips a try. Thanks for posting.

I have 2 20' black walnut trees in front of my house. We never harvested the walnuts before leaving them to the squirrels or just running them over. This year I think I'll harvest them. Thanks for the video.

Thank you. I appreciate how you presented the information.

Excellent video, answered a lot of my questions

Thanks for this, I just bought a house with a hundred year old black walnut tree. I had no idea what to do with them until watching this.

I grew up in the middle of a black walnut orchard. We waited until they fell from the tree, and put them in a pile until the hulls turned black. We ran the truck back and forth over them to break off the hulls. Then we spread them out and cracked them on a rock with a hammer when they were dry. Yes, our hands get stained, but it wears off eventually.

Thank you for the demonstration and explanation.

First off, your video was really great for anyone learning about foraging/survivalism etc. In that you spoke clearly and made your points quickly. You gave your audience all the information we needed to identify the wild edible, and when, exactly, to harvest it. Concise and to the point. Well done my friend. (2) This video was somewhat serendipitous in that, I had this strange looking green fruit growing next to my place... lol. Thanks to your video, I now know I can eat the fruit and the fruit is actually BLACK WALNUT! 😀 Perfect. Thank you my friend.

Excellent video. Thank you.

Loved this * Thank you for all your time & effort in sharing. I only found your channel recently & have now subscribed.Sending well wishes from Scotland *