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Lovely ❤
A few days ago while on a hike I ran into a wild chestnut forest, and although on a much smaller scale I collected as many as I could fit in my backpack. This was my first time collecting so many and the satisfaction from foraging my food was immense, maybe better than what I get from growing it. Next autumn I'll definitely go back in the same place better equipped to collect more like you guys do! Anxiously waiting for your notes on storage, since I've been struggling to find realistic options online.
Thanks for the inspiration! 🙏
Great tool 👍
If you put a trap underneath it would of been easier , the nut wizard is good😊
Aw man, I'm so jealous! 😁
beautiful abundance!!
what an amazing harvest!
I waited too long to stratify my chestnuts. The chestnut Weevils hatched. Do you have any suggestions to avoid this problem in the future? Are my weevil-less chestnuts still viable ?
Thank you for the video!
That looks amazing! Trees are awesome ❤ I can't wait to hear about how you store them, as i also have an abundance of chestnuts.
I'm excited for hickory nuts, black walnuts and chestnuts 🌰 😍
shoutout to calvin and hobbes
Hey Sean, Do you know the varietals of the trees? Are they grafted? I'm curious if you bother harvesting nuts that aren't sweet and easy-peeling.
Wow that’s a lot of castanhas! I planted some from seed 3 years ago and I can’t wait (but I must) to harvest them. Nice to have long term goals to look forward to.
Looking forward to seeing how you process them to prevent spoilage in storage.
Lovely, thank you for sharing this bountiful chestnut harvest. Ahhh, five acres of chestnuts❣️😍
wow! well done!
Thank you, Trees!
Yo i love your work. fyi th toob is not letting me like your vid or to turn on all notifications. Just thought you should know
Chestnut Liberation Army 😊👍
❤❤❤ Keep up the good work . I learned a lot from your channel.
Thank you.
We have what I think is a hickory tree–the nuts have proven to be a bit difficult to crack.
I have a feeling that three hundred years from now there will be confused legends of Sean the seed man who planted or grew the seed of most of the food some populations are eating.
This is glorious! I spent a couple hours dehuskingwashing walnuts yesterday, got them drying above the fridge in a cardboard box. Not as nice as your stacked trays and fan thing, but I'm still happy. Gathering nuts is how I want to spend every fall in my elder years. By then I'll probably be doing the same as him, inviting younger people in to share the abundance. Fruit too, but nuts give me much more of a satisfying prepped feeling because they're fat and protein, not just sugar. Fruit is still a healthy wonderful food, but eating just fruit puts me on the metabolic sugar roller coaster. I prefer the satiating long-burning digestive fire of nuts, it's like burning a dense hardwood in the belly stove vs pine branches.
The best ever would be to grow everything needed to make a fruitnut pie of some kind. Hardest part would be the wheat for the pie crust, so I wonder about easier grownharvested alternatives, like cauliflower, potato, pseudograins, etc. Anyone with experience growing their own pie crust? Now I'm wondering about crushed nuts in the crust too, some are very fatty, thought I've heard something about that. I'm all about growing everything needed for particular dishes, that gets me excited. Seems like an easier way to design a garden that grows all your needs. Start with meals that you can enjoy eating every day that the mix of provides all your micronutrients and then design the garden from there. Like that one guy making rounds on youtube right now who gdesigned his garden around a oil crop and a couple other piecea and went from there. Seemed incomplete in some micronutrients and fatty acid ratio of his oil crop wasn't great, but still cool to see someone approach it purely from a sustenance angle. That's why I love this channel, you eat so much food from your gardens AND make a living selling those plants, such a beautiful system!
they are very moisture laden – so make sure you guard against mold ! 🙂 squirrels got over half of mine – but I have about 4 pounds out of the prickly pod and drying
US made Nut Wizard, you said it 😂
What I meant to say, have you ever tried making them into jam. That is something the English always bring back from France, chestnut jam in a tin, lovely.
Such a thoughtful gesture to plant those trees !
What is your opinion on chestnut blight? Why isn't blight overtaking these trees like all the other chestnut trees in the US?
Bet you don't talk that slow in normal conversation.
In which state did this bountiful harvest. happen.
Are these American chestnut trees? I am assuming they are either Chinese or Japanese chestnut varieties. We are trying, unsuccessful so far, to establish some blight resistant American chestnut trees on our farm.
Chestnut harvest used to be a huge community event, with food for everyone.
Great stuff! Such abundance!
Do you plan on selling them
I have chestnut seeds stratifying currently for plantings next fall. I was planning on using nitrogen fixing trees to the north of them. I currently have gray alder stratifying, but had run across a section in gaias garden that say kentucky coffee tree also fixes nitrogen. Other sources on the web are mixed saying it does and some say it does not. Any thoughts here? Also, Sean, how do you manage nitrogen fixing trees when companion planted with a keystone species? Do I pollard the nitrogen fixers on a rotational basis just like I would chop smaller nitrogen fixing shrubs?
Beautiful harvest. We have built a similar vibrating device from a wooden flap with a crossbar. Great for walnuts.
One of my favorite thoughts is people finding all of my trees after I've departed this mortal realm. What a legacy we can all leave behind!
The ones that grow near me are very very skinny
What kind of variety of chestnut are these? Can't be American chestnut of course.
Beautiful harvest