EatTheWeeds: Episode 54: Hickories

http://www.eattheweeds.com/cayra-coffee-or-hickory-java-2/

Learn about wild food with Green Deane, this time the genus of hickories and pecans, and walnuts, too.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Glabra
• aquatica
• bushcraft
• Carya
• edible
• food
• Foraging
• herbs
• medicine
• permaculture
• plants
• raw
• survival
• wild
• wildcraft
• juglans
• lacinosa
• ovalis
• ovata
• cordiformis

[Bently100]

I am having a great time watching your vids! Here is a question: How long to you think store bought unshelled nuts of various kinds last when you get them home?

[EatTheWeeds]

@Bently100 In good condition a season or two. 

[CCourson05]

So as the layers of the hickory to make the Native American "milk", do you take away the husk, and grind the shell and nut meat?

[EatTheWeeds]

@CCourson05 Use just the nutmeat.

[LeonRFpoa]

Hickory! We got lots of those near here. I made two bows out of the last tree I felled with a camp saw. I noticed that the nuts were all over and that the deer and pigs in the area hang out where the nuts fall, right by the waterway. And yeah, the nuts that fall MUST be pignuts because they look like that. I was going to eat one but I found a rotten spot with maggots in it. Bad or safe with the maggots?

[EatTheWeeds]

@LeonRFpoa Maggots... extra protein....

[RonRay]

@EatTheWeeds

Making "Hickory salt" sounds like a GREAT idea! Thanks!

[EatTheWeeds]

@miketonon ...wear gloves....

[miketonon]

@EatTheWeeds, How do you deal with the sappy shell? Whats the best way to get the sap off your hands?

[EatTheWeeds]

@miketonon Yes, same as hickories or walnuts. They were my mother's favorite.