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jamie:
so far this month. White oak acorns. Made flour and meal. Also have been roasting them and eating them whole. Hickory nuts. Crush em, shell and meat. Cover them with water and simmer. Fats will rise to top. Skim it off and drink. Pour off water and remove. Drink water, this is hickory milk. Its awesome. Before removing water i use a flattened stick to remove large shells . Rest of the muck can be eaten. Gritty but good. Black walnut. Remove husk by stepping on. Dry the nut ,crack and dig out meat. Use just like walnuts. Save husks ,they make an excellent dye. Also remove your shoes before getting in car or walking into house or youll find out the hard way how good of a dye it is . Wear gloves if you dont want dyed hands. My hands are always dirty so i dont care and the brown fingertips wear off after a while. Chestnuts. Get them off the ground quick. Worms get them quick. If they havent opened to expose the nut burn the husks a bit to remove the spines or wear work gloves and split the husk with a knife. Roast em and sing christmas songs. =) ill be gathering tubers next week.

Timo:
What about the fall mushrooms Jamie? You have any up there?

It's time here for the corals to be out, but I haven't seen any yet.Puffballs are everywhere but I don't really like them.

jamie:
i really only eat the tree fungi and puffballs. we had so much rain this year they came and went real fast. i had a really nice hen of the woods and two chicken of the woods earlier. not too many puffballs this year . last year was a bumper crop.

Tsalagi:
Great haul you got! We have lots of Gambel's Oaks here that we harvested acorns from last year. But this year, we got no appreciable rain during our monsoons. So, what few acorns were produced were quickly snapped up by squirrels and acorn woodpeckers. Last year, we had a huge haul of King Bolete and Lobster mushrooms. This year, not a one because no rain. We did get a nice haul of blackberries and discovered an apple tree growing wild we got a nice haul from. I did notice the "Pinyon Lady" has been selling both the regular Arizona/New Mexico pinyon nuts and the bigger Nevada pinyon nuts almost all year here in town. So, she must have had quite a haul from last year. The purslane poked its head up, but without rain, decided to wait for a better year.

I think our first snows are on their way soon. I scored nicely on some firewood. The fire department dragged out the dead Ponderosa pines from the forest and cut them up only 100 feet from our front door. I asked about if I could take some and they said it was for the public. I went over with my axe and split my winter firewood. I needed it, too. Out of work and was worrying about the winter heating bill and knew I had no choice but to get firewood. I thought I'd have a long slog doing all the cutting by hand with axe. But then this boon appeared and I only had to split it and carry it back.

ricktrojanowski:
Jamie
Any kind of Hickory nut or are some better than others?

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