I’m always on the hunt for Hickory Nuts! Today I walked around the Gettysburg Battlefield looking for the elusive hickory nuts. I didn’t find any! Calm down Ryan. You’ll find some soon!
The hickory nuts are just about ready to fall for 2018. The squirrels are up there eating them, so I know they’re about to fall! It will be a few more days until they are ready to fall. If the squirrels don’t eat them all.
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yo this is Ryan I am taking a little
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stroll in the woods near my house I’m
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doing the first check for hickory nuts
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super excited I will say this year I
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haven’t really been looking at the trees
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a lot of times I’ll walk around and
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check out the trees and this year this
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summer I didn’t so I’m pretty excited to
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thought I heard one falling pretty
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excited to come out here and just see
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how they’re doing
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okay so there’s a shag bark you can see
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this one happens to be so shaggy
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it’s literally peeling off
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I will sustainably harvest some of this
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bark off of a shagbark hickory I don’t
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over harvest but I know where there’s
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enough trees that I can pull a little
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bit off of each tree so if you want some
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hickory shagbark hickory bark smoke and
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I’m not talking about getting high I’m
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talking about smoking your meats man all
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right man look I’m investigating look
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what we got
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signs of debris I’ll tell you exactly
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what that is that’s a squirrel
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stealing my hickory nuts I’m just
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kidding the hickory nuts are there sue
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I’ll share I’ll be happy to share these
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with the squirrels now when they start
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hitting the ground denim not as happy so
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when you see this kind of debris laying
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around that’s really green and broken
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that means essentially that the nuts
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inside there are good enough to eat
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they’re probably they probably have a
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lot of tannins and they’re really hard
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to get to unless you’ve got big squirrel
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teeth and you know you are a squirrel I
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found that it’s really not worth the
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effort to get to those green nuts so
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what you see now is just the shells
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basically I mean there I heard one and
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when they do fall the squirrels are
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roaming the ground looking for those
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green ones and and prying them open and
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here’s one they’re busy over here the
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squirrels so you see what I mean
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you can’t really get to that you can’t
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get to it
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in a couple weeks when they start
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hitting the ground they’ll essentially
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just they’ll be so dry that they
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essentially just hit the ground
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crack open sometimes they’re so dry that
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they actually just break while they’re
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falling there and then you go around
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with your nut wizard and you just pick
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them up I’ll show you that when they
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start falling but today these hickory
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trees are not giving me edible food this
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is just not worth the time but the good
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news is that it seems like there’s gonna
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be a lot of eat green nuts up in the
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tree
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so I’ll come back and check on these in
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a couple weeks so for now what I’m going
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to do is spend my time mapping these