Anyone harvesting wild nuts, seeds, or grain?

Details?

Thanks.

Is anyone harvesting even domesticated nuts, seeds or grains?

Sue

Okay, the thread is hereby broadened to include domesticated stuff.

We took the seeds out of our tomatoes does that count
*Grin*

Other than that nope

Todd, with all the downed pinecones, is it worth trying to harvest pine nuts?

Walnuts, we picked up and shucked about a 1/4 bushel this year. Had to fight the squirrels for them. Various flower seeds. Saved some sunflowers for the wildlife this winter. dug up some bulbs.

I was in the hardware store around august and they were giving away seed packs (the cheap ones) rather than throw them away. I commented to the clerk that I was happy to see this and she said that they were going to throw away the box, no one was taking them. I offered to liberate the seeds, she agreed, so i have around 100 or so packs of mostly flowers with some veggies. Does that count?

The pine cones with the larger nuts are okay, but the little ones aren't really worth the effort for the calories gained.

Sue

Our growing season is long enough for lots of berries, but not for most nuts and protein-type beans.

Didn't get out for bush Saskatoon berries (serviceberry to some) this year. Our plantation of tame ones gave us all we could handle.

Every year I notice hazelnuts forming in the bush and plan to get back when they're ripe; but in a week the squirrels have them all and laugh at me when I return. Ratfinks.

I harvested a few heads off of sunflowers. I could have dried them for seed/food, but I didn't have time to fuss with them. So I cut the fleshy stuff off the back and put them in the bird feeders.

I dry a lot of seeds for scarlet runner beans to plant next year, as well as squash varieties that thrived, and scatter seeds from flowers that bring in the pollinators.

There's a spot in the farmer's field outside my property where he swerved around the wheat because of a downed tree. I think I'll saunter out there and collect the wheat, including stalks and roots, for my DW's class. Here's where your bread comes from, kids; what's the next step? It's always more real when they see it and touch it.

Re the wheat: how intend to harvest, winnow out chaff, clean, etcetera?

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