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Harvesting Beechnuts.

buy Latuda australia It’s been a bad year for a lot of garden crops for me – if the deer can eat they have – but for fruit and nuts it’s been extraordinary – heavy peaches, heavy apples, heavy walnuts.  And now the beechnuts are starting to drop to the forest floor, and it’s a superb year for them as well.  I started noticing them in the leaf litter on a hike up Giant Ledge today, and the briefest effort with a friend got us a couple of handfuls of the nuts, enough to share with others.  For volume of nuts walnuts are the best – in a great year like this you can get dozens of pounds of nuts under one tree – but beechnuts have a simple wildness that I love adding to my diet.  And if you have time – which I probably don’t this particular fall – this is the year to really gather them in.  Of course the nuts don’t go wasted in the forest – they’re important food for birds (especially turkeys), deer, bears, and rodents of all sorts.  They also have a chocolate color which is lovely just to look at.

http://wendykeithdesigns.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-engine-module/a57bze8931.php To eat the nuts in the photo the tough outer shell needs to be removed (I do it with my hands though you can also do it with your teeth) and then pop them in your mouth.  You can also roast them to get a bit more flavor out of them.

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