Inside the World’s Largest Walnut Forest
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Also if you get a chance, try green walnuts. They ones that are still in their green soft outer hulls. Have no idea where you'd find them in US. But they are pretty delicious - a completely different taste than the dried ones, I think somewhat similar to avocado. The juice from the green outer hulls will also stain anything they touch, including hands. Takes a few days to get it out, but given the taste, it's worth it.
One day I was out in yard after these bugger balls had started to fall and a Jamaican accented guy in his 50s drives up our one way street. He stops the car and asks if we're doing anything with the nuts. I say "we might eat 5 a year, if you want 'em you can have 'em, but try to get them before my mum yells at me" and that was it.
Twice a fall he drives up loads up his little car with walnuts and brings them back to his Jamaican themed natural foods store where he and his wife clean them and sell them.
What I love about this story is just how anti-internet it is. There was no web crawler looking for excess nuts, no search engines, no cold emails or fake users 'til you make it, just a dude driving around and a kid in a yard.
And a natural foods store that really lives up to its name.
Heh no joke! Had to use a knife. Got lots cuts on my fingers from it.
One year my mom decided to make green walnut jam. It was delicious, but a lot of work. And then after helping her prepare the walnuts my hands were a dark brown color for about a week. Got made fun in school, though for good measure too, I looked ridiculous.
It would be "more Internet" if you took the chance and linked to the store (or at least named it), giving folks in the area a chance to discover something new and perhaps earn the man running the store a few extra dollars.
I know I would make an effort to go if I heard a similar local story. It's more fun when there's some kind of connection.
There are two cons: shelling is really work intensive and it takes decades for trees to mature enough to give good yields.
except of course those afflicted with fungi, which causes them to basically bear no fruit at all and spreads through the soil.
"[The trees] secrete chemicals into the soil to prevent competing vegetation from growing."
Given what the parent commenter has said about having to experiment with different plants, it stands to reason that they have a healthy black walnut tree in their garden rather than a regia.
Very mediocre results with my tomatoes and cucumbers this year, but it was very, very dry.
Oh, and zucchini. But you can almost plant zucchini on asphalt and it would find a way to produce bushels of the stuff...
Presumably the same oils that deter insects from feeding on the leaves / needles tend to leach out into the soil over time. And all things being equal, the leaves are most likely to fall near the trunk, making it an excellent delivery mechanism, too.
they really get value for their money there. in Los Angeles a million dollars would not cover the pension for a single retired police officer.
In 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided a Qualified Health Claim allowing products containing walnuts to state: "Supportive but not conclusive research shows that eating 1.5 ounces per day of walnuts, as part of a low saturated fat and low cholesterol diet and not resulting in increased caloric intake, may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease."