Nut based agroforestry offers a huge potential to increase the ecosystem functions of human habitats. Osker Brown, of Glorious Forest Farm, will discuss all aspects of nutrition, harvest, storage, processing, and culinary use of acorns, hazelnuts, chestnuts, hickories, and black walnuts. We will show and tell tools and methods for processing, and sample some treats. We will also cover tending wild habitats for these crops, as well as cultivation of them in managed landscapes, and integration with livestock and annual cropping systems. Learn about the abundance of nuts around you and explore their many beneficial uses. In part 9, we explore a field at the farm where we have nut trees planted. Pat describes what has been done to the field and how we have modified it over time with permaculture installations.
VIDEO: Nuts As Staple Foods with Osker Brown Part 9
Nut based agroforestry offers a huge potential to increase the ecosystem functions of human habitats. Osker Brown, of Glorious Forest Farm, will discuss all aspects of nutrition, harvest, storage, processing, and culinary use of acorns, hazelnuts, chestnuts, hickories, and black walnuts. We will show and tell tools and methods for processing, and sample some treats. We will also cover tending wild habitats for these crops, as well as cultivation of them in managed landscapes, and integration with livestock and annual cropping systems. Learn about the abundance of nuts around you and explore their many beneficial uses. In part 9, we explore a field at the farm where we have nut trees planted. Pat describes what has been done to the field and how we have modified it over time with permaculture installations.
If we wanted some of those nuts to grow on our property, where would we be able to get some?
Willamette Valley is NOT pronounced as Willa Met Valley ……………… It is pronounced Will-AM-et, Vallye; heavy enunciation on the AM part and softer on the prefix and suffix of the name.
Got a huge hazelnut tree/bush right ourside my balcony (2nd floor), here in Switzerland. Wanted to post a foto, but I dont see the symbol in order to add it. Its full this year, last year was not as good. We had a fairly long, wet spring, so the nuts, and other fruits, are large and juicy.
I have loads of hazel bushes where I live in Wales, but never get any ripe nuts. The squirels and jays take them all before they fully ripen. Been thinking of putting squirrel on the menu.
I live in a forest in germany with a hazel dominated understory and the hazel seedlings are all eaten by deer and hares. This makes just about every hazel in the woods here grow as a densly multistemmed bushes. Only some of the hazels in town grow with a single stem, and these are often the turkish hazel trees rather than the german hazel bushes. I trim mine back to two meter long poles and this keeps them harvestable and the cats can keep the pests away in fall
Why is it that people today think you need a degree to know all of this. ???