Black Walnuts and their many uses
Yesterday afternoon I discovered that the previous nights cool temperatures had brought down a lot of black walnuts. since I was mowing the yard that meant I had to pick them up before mowing there...
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quills did you hammer the nuts thru the pipe and scrape the hull that way?
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nope Steve .... just pounded on the nuts in the wheel barrel .I was amazed and how the hulls just sort of starting separating after several blows. The very bottom side of the tee is what I used not...
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Okay I went out this afternoon and took a look at my ..brew ..and it looked like it was time to strain off the dye . It looked pretty dark and thick so I got my strainer and things ready to go . I...
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Cool that yours are doing so well. Here in WI a lot of things did very poorly this year. Apples, Black Walnuts, Black Raspberries, etc. Too many trees with no fruit/nuts at all. Usually a high is...
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Dawg....the trees around here are loaded with walnuts...I do not know about others like hickory's etc...But the Black Walnuts are a bumper crop .The elderberries were to ..but I could not get out to...
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Quills, this has been a bumper year for everything except Mosquitos this year in St. Louis area. I have had my best foraging year of my 55 years. Morels Blackberrys Elderberrys Tomatos and Pears. I...
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Aztec...I'd give my left arm ( almost ) if pecans grew up here .My brother lives near Buffalo down there .I've got to find out if he's ever seen pecans while turkey hunting ....Glad you had a great...
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You can put a handful of walnuts, still with the hull on, in a mason jar and fill with vodka to make a tincture that does wonders for parasites. My granddad used to use it to worm the hounds.
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One note on using black walnut as a antiparasitic or vermifuge is that the juglone in them is fairly hepatotoxic in humans and horses at least. Lots of herbal medicine sites recommend taking milk...
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Good words of caution Eric....I remember reading the book about the white guy who back in the 70's ..dyed his skin with walnut juice ...went into the Black community and lived as a black man for...
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On a side note but on topic - whats the best / easiest way to wash walnuts are you have them hulled?
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With a hose ....and a nozzle on the end ...I put them in a plastic..... milk jug bin ...like they used to carry 4 glass gallon jugs of milk in before the advent of Plastic milk jugs . You can buy...
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