Part of homesteading is using what nature already provides – and it’s been a great year for early fall foraging so far here in Kentucky and Tennessee! The unusual heat pushed everything to produce sooner than I’m used to seeing. This is also my second year foraging in Tennessee and I’ve been extremely impressed. My passion is finding outstanding fruit and nut trees in the wild and using them both personally and spreading them to like minded individuals.
This year we found multiple trees that I will be grafting onto seedlings to plant on my property in Kentucky. One of the pawpaws I found will be evaluated in a test orchard to become a new cultivar. Some of the persimmons I’ve found are producing sweeter, larger, and at a more prolific rate I haven’t seen before. I found one in particular that is going to make an amazing deer hunting tree due to it dropping early September during bow season. Enjoy some pictures of our harvest and products we make with them!
by KY-Rockhound
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Are you willing to share seeds?
I used to blanche them after cutting an X on the top skin, then freeze them. They make a great frozen treat. Peel back and dig in.
How are you supposed to eat them. Ive removed the skin but even the flesh does the super drying thing to my mouth.
Some of those persimmons are unusually large for wild American persimmons. Good idea to evaluate them as potential new named cultivars.