If you're looking to add a food source to your homestead that will produce year after year, adding edible nut trees can be a great option.
Wild nuts aren't just for the squirrels, they're an abundant and nutrient-dense wild food that's just waiting for the harvest. Keep an eye out for these delicious wild protein sources and pack them away for winter
They're delicious. They're nutritious. And they're a bit of a pain to grow. Don't be put off, growing Brazil nuts is worth the effort.
Beech nuts are tasty, nutrient-dense nuts produced in the fall by beech trees (Fagus sp.). The nut husks are incredibly distinctive, and it's hard not to stop and pick up the brightly colored velcro covered
Going nuts trying to figure out what's plaguing your plants? A little-known toxin may be killing them. Black walnut juglone toxicity is real. Read more now.
Nuts and Seeds of the British Isles - Our countryside is bursting with interesting nuts and tree seeds. Here you can learn all about them...
Nannyberries are incredibly sweet wild fruits that grow in clusters from prolific bushes. They ripen in the late fall and sometimes hang on the branches all winter long. They're sometimes called sweet viburnum because with
Butter nuts, also known as white walnuts, are the rich sweet fruit of the butternut tree (Juglans cinerea). They grow wild throughout the forests of the Northeast (Range Map), though they're increasingly rare due to
Everything you need to know about foraging hickory nuts: when and where to harvest, how to process, store, and cook.
Foraging Calendar, ecofriendly A3 print, Wall Art Poster, Infographic, Herbalism, Wild Food, Plant Calendar. ~°* Details *°~ This popular and beautifully illustrated Foraging Calendar is designed to give you an overview of 49 wild plants, usefull herbs and trees and which parts to harvest. This all-year-round calendar introduces you to plants that have been a source of food and medicine for millennia. The easy to read colour-coding shows you which parts of the plants (leaves, flowers, fruits and nuts) are available at which time of the year. This infographic poster is a perfect tool to accompany both foraging beginners as well as more experienced foragers. It’s a great way to inspire you to get out and forage in your area and get to know the local plants and trees. It also makes a beautiful decoration as a herb print. This forage calendar has been created in the UK and is designed for use in Western Europe. It is also being used successfully in parts of the USA. You can check which of these plants and trees grow in your area to see if this poster will work for you. ~°* Material *°~ You will receive a high-quality eco-print on 250gsm uncoated poster paper, printed by a professional UK-based eco-printing company in Devon. ~°* Size *°~ A3, 29.7 x 42 cm or 11.7 x 16.5 inches. ~°* Shipping *°~ Posted in a sturdy mailing tube on a weekly basis by Royal Mail, fast and reliable, free UK delivery included. ~°* Policy and Commitment *°~ In the unlikely case of loss or damage during delivery, I am committed to resending a second copy of the print without any additional costs to my customers after a six-week waiting period to accommodate potential delays. ~°* Forestheart *°~ To be part of my unfolding exploration of nature-inspired creativity and magical artwork, as well as workshop offerings and storytelling events, please feel free to connect with me and follow my work on social media or via my website: Website ~ https://www.forestheart.co.uk Facebook ~ https://www.facebook.com/yannick.dubois.1986 Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/forestheart.art Etsy ~ https://www.etsy.com/shop/forestheartcelticart
Tips and instructions on how to find, harvest pine nuts, specifially the American pinon nuts Pinus edulis or Pinus monophylla.
Black Walnut Harvesting & Processing: As Autumn approaches in our area of Northeastern Oklahoma, many of our nut trees are beginning to shed their crops, dropping nuts beneath trees, in the garden, yard, bushes, and even on an occasional unsuspecting human below the tree. Our house was …
Everything you need to know about foraging hickory nuts: when and where to harvest, how to process, store, and cook.
Beech nuts are tasty, nutrient-dense nuts produced in the fall by beech trees (Fagus sp.). The nut husks are incredibly distinctive, and it's hard not to stop and pick up the brightly colored velcro covered
Culinary herbs & spices stock art illustrations: basil, rosemary, nutmeg, turmeric, cacao, ginger, lemongrass, capers, cloves, cinnamon, parsley & oregano,
Nut producing trees are excellent to add in with your fruit trees. The fastest growing nut tree is the hazelnut. Chestnut and walnut are great but take care
Edible wild berries and fruit are some of the most rewarding things to find when you're out foraging wild edible plants. Wild berries and fruits often don't require preparation and cooking, unlike roots and greens.
Everything you need to know about identifying, foraging, cracking open and making delicious recipes with hickory nuts.
Information on the triangular shaped beech nuts which can be found in copious quantities during mast years. Beech trees are large majestic deciduous trees. Their young tender leaves can be eaten in salads.
Eastern North America is one of the richest foraging landscapes in the world, with a wild abundance of fruits, berries, nuts, roots, tubers, shoots, flowers, seeds, and leafy greens. This guide is the key to unlocking the nutritional and culinary secrets of the natural bounty around us. As the most comprehensive regional guide ever written, it contains detailed descriptions, range maps, and sharp color photos of 700 edible species as well as some of our most troublesome toxic plants. Sam Thayer's Field Guide pioneers a novel identification system using everyday language accessible to beginning and advanced foragers alike, designed to stand alone or work with phone-based identification apps to confirm positive ID before a plant is eaten. Readers will also learn about the plant's habitat, conservation, edible parts, seasons of harvest, and methods of preparation. Destined to become the new standard in foraging field guides. Please let me know if there are any changes you'd like to make to the above description and we can resend this description out in our data feed this week. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780976626640 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Foragers Harvest Press Publication Date: 06-01-2023 Pages: 736 Product Dimensions: 8.70h x 6.30w x 2.20dAbout the Author Samuel Thayer is an internationally recognized authority on edible wild plants who has been teaching classes and workshops around the United States for almost three decades. His previous award-winning foraging books have sold more than 300,000 copies.
Butter nuts, also known as white walnuts, are the rich sweet fruit of the butternut tree (Juglans cinerea). They grow wild throughout the forests of the Northeast (Range Map), though they're increasingly rare due to
In our fast food world, growing your own nuts is a long-term plan, but these trees don’t need a lot of attention and having your own fresh, free nut supply is definitely worth a few years of waiting. Words: Sheryn Dean One of the benefits of owning a bit of land is having the space to grow large or multiple trees, which means we can grow our own nuts. Home-grown nuts have a flavour of their own. When you harvest a fresh hazel, it’s nothing like what you can buy in a supermarket. If you don’t believe in the superior
Uses for hickory nuts include good eating, a syrup and even a way to flavor roasts.
It’s easy to forage a beautiful hedgerow bouquet and now is a perfect time before the hedges are cut.You’ll find wild fruit, berries, nuts and seeds in abundanc…
It’s easy to forage a beautiful hedgerow bouquet. Wild fruit, berries, nuts and seeds will all make an excellent alternative to flowers.
The only thing better than a day wandering the outdoors is one where you snack on wild-grown edibles. Learn introductory foraging here at Gardener’s Path.
Want to transform your backyard to a food producing garden that also attracts wildlife? Choosing from these 10 shrubs for a wildlife-friendly, edible landscape, would be a great start! Wildlife val…
There are more than 500 named pecan varieties, but just a handful are widely planted in the United States. For the homeowner or small scale commercial orchardist, the important differences between types of pecan trees for sale include: pollination type; timing of flowering; size of the nut; shell thickness; tendency to bear in alternate years; age at first bearing; season of nut maturation; and resistance to the fungal disease, pecan scab. Most Popular Pecan Varieties Hybrid American Chestnut Tree $ 79.99 Elliot Pecan Tree | Type 2 Pollinator $ 74.95 Amling Pecan Tree | Type 1 Pollinator $ 79.95 Oconee Pecan Tree | Type 1 Pollinator $ 29.99 McMillan Pecan Tree | Type 2 Pollinator $119.95 Gafford Pecan Tree | Type 1 Pollinator $119.95 Pecan Pollination: How Does it Work? Type 1 vs. Type 2 A pecan tree has both male flowers (pendant catkins), and female flowers (erect spikes), on the same tree. Type I (protandrous) pecans have male flowers that release their pollen before their female flowers are receptive to pollen shed. Type II (protogynous) pecans release their pollen after their female flowers were receptive. Pecan Flowering Time There is also variation in flowering time among varieties within each type. Both types must be present (within a few hundred feet) to get pollination and subsequent nut development, and the bloom periods must overlap. Experience has shown that three or more pecan varieties planted together provide the best pollination, and therefore the biggest nut crops. The suggested pollinators column in the table below takes into account both pollination type and bloom period. Pollination is done by the wind. Pecan variety nut comparisons Size of Pecan Nuts and Shell Thickness The nut size is measured by the number of nuts per pound. Large pecans have 55 or fewer nuts per pound; medium = 55-70 nuts/pound; and small = more than 70 nuts/pound. We can get an idea of pecan shell thickness (= ease of shelling) by comparing the weight of the kernel with the weight of the whole nut. The higher the percent kernel, the thinner the shell. Thin shells are easier to get the husk off. Pawnees are a great candidate for high percent kernel Alternate Bearing & Nut Maturity Pecan trees are notorious for alternate bearing. Some varieties are prone to bigger yields one year and smaller crops the next, while others tend to produce good crops every year. Bearing age is the early age at which nut production first begins. Normally, a grafted pecan cultivar, planted when about 4-6 feet tall, will start producing nuts in 6 or 7 years. More precocious varieties may start production in 4 or 5 years, and the least precocious, 8 to 10 years after planting. Seedlings and wild pecans (they occur naturally in the bottomlands of the Mississippi and other rivers westward into East Texas and Mexico) can take 12 to 15 years to begin production. Note that the most precocious varieties may start production as young trees but they often have an alternate bearing in later years. More information about this on our Pecan Grow Guide. Nut maturity is the relative time of year that the pecans become ripe. The actual calendar dates for early, mid-, and late season pecans vary with climate zone, of course. In much of USDA Zone 8, for example, early season pecans typically ripen from mid September through the end of September; mid-season cultivars from early October through mid October; and late season varieties after mid October. Pecan Diseases Pecan scab causes nut drop There are many diseases and pests that attack pecan trees and nuts. Disease and pest susceptibility vary year-to-year due to variations in weather, local conditions, the health of the trees, and, of course, the pecan variety. Therefore, the more different varieties you plant, the better are your chances of getting a successful crop every year. Pecan scab is among the worst of pecan diseases. It is most destructive where humidity is highest. If your planting site is surrounded by wetlands, avoid varieties with poor scab resistance. There are recommended varieties with disease resistance notated below. The table that follows provides important characteristics of several common papershell pecan tree varieties, most of which are offered by Perfect Plants Nursery. Pecan Tree Identification Chart Pecan Pollination Suggested Nuts/ % Alternate Bearing Nut Scab variety type pollinators pound kernel bearing age maturity resistance Amling I Sumner, Stuart, Elliott, Zinner 62 55 intermediate 4-5 mid excellent Caddo I Sumner, Stuart, Elliott, Kanza 67 54 no 5-6 mid fair Cape Fear I Sumner, Stuart, Elliott, Kanza 55 51 no 4-7 late good Creek I Elliott, Stuart 55 48 yes 4-5 late good Desirable I Sumner, Stuart, Elliott, Kanza 48 51 no 6-7 mid-late poor Mandan I Kanza, Forkert. Stuart, Zinner 49 57 no 5-8 early good Oconee I Cape Fear, Stuart 48 53 no 6-7 mid fair Pawnee I Forkert, Kiowa, Sumner, Stuart 56 60 intermediate 6-8 early poor Candy II Cape Fear, Creek, Desirable 70 45 yes 4-5 early good Curtis II Cape Fear, Creek, Desirable 89 53 intermediate 6-8 late excellent Elliott II Caddo, Desirable, Oconee, Pawnee 77 51 yes 7-10 mid excellent Forkert II Cape Fear, Elliott, Kanza, Sumner 53 58 intermediate 5-8 mid-late fair Kanza II Caddo, Desirable, Oconee, Pawnee 74 52 yes 7-8 early excellent Kiowa II Caddo, Desirable, Oconee, Pawnee 48 53 intermediate 5-6 late fair Stuart II Cape Fear, Desirable, Elliott 55 46 intermediate 8-10 mid fair Sumner II Cape Fear, Desirable, Oconee 56 49 intermediate 7-9 late good Zinner II Caddo, Creek, Cape Fear, Desirable 44 54 no 6-7 mid-late excellent Gafford I Cherryle, Lakota, McMillan, Zinner 56 50 yes 5-6 mid-late excellent McMillan II Desirable, Caddo, Creek, Pawnee 56 51 yes 5-6 mid-late good We hope this information was useful for you. Pecans are truly one of a kind and one of our favorites here on the nursery being in the South. Not only do they provide delicious nuts that are a health food, they are an attractive tree for any landscape. Happy Planting!! What kind of pecan trees are you growing? Let us know in the comments!
Here is what you need to know about collecting black walnuts for seeds and nuts. They look very different before they are unhusked.
Cold climate gardening can seem limiting, and you just can't grow many common supermarket fruits. That just means you have to get creative because there are literally dozens of delicious cold hard fruits you've probably
While visiting a friend a few summers ago, she gave me a tour of her vegetable garden. As we walked, we came upon this weedy looking plant that was covered in what appeared to be
Fall is a great time for foraging in Wisconsin! With berries, fruits, mushrooms, and nuts to choose from, you're sure to find something great!
They are the nobility of nuts,” the chef Odessa Piper says, “what the black truffle is to mushrooms.” Shagbark hickory nuts have “more flavor... more snap,
Here is what you need to know about collecting black walnuts for seeds and nuts. They look very different before they are unhusked.
Cold climate gardening can seem limiting, and you just can't grow many common supermarket fruits. That just means you have to get creative because there are literally dozens of delicious cold hard fruits you've probably
Sarah Raven salutes a tree that's beautiful, easy to grow, and gives a magnificent crop with the minimum of effort.
This delicious and nutritious perennial crop is a North American native. If you're interested in growing American groundnuts, here's all the info you need.
Hazelnuts are easy and quick to grow, and they can be relatively fuss-free. Check out our complete guide to growing hazelnuts.
Harvesting pecans in the fall can be easy and fun with some simple techniques, tips, and tricks we have come up with and use every season.
Learn how to harvest, crack and use black walnuts!
The most common walnut tree grown in the U.S., aside from the native Black Walnut, is the English (also called Persian) walnut. English walnuts are often preferred for their milder taste and easier shelling, and they will not stain your hands like the husk of black walnuts can.
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I have this dream of someday growing all our own food for a full year right on our homestead. We've been slowly expanding our orchard and fruit production over the years, working toward that dream.
