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#185473 - 10/16/09 02:00 AM Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain?
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
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Loc: Central California
Anyone harvesting wild nuts, seeds, or grain?

Details?

Thanks.

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#185483 - 10/16/09 02:25 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: dweste]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
Is anyone harvesting even domesticated nuts, seeds or grains?

Sue

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#185486 - 10/16/09 02:32 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: Susan]
dweste Offline
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Loc: Central California
Okay, the thread is hereby broadened to include domesticated stuff.

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#185488 - 10/16/09 02:39 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: dweste]
Todd W Offline
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Registered: 11/14/04
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Loc: Mountains of CA
We took the seeds out of our tomatoes does that count laugh
*Grin*

Other than that nope smirk
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#185490 - 10/16/09 02:46 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: Todd W]
dweste Offline
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Loc: Central California
Todd, with all the downed pinecones, is it worth trying to harvest pine nuts?

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#185501 - 10/16/09 03:35 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: dweste]
EchoingLaugh Offline
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Registered: 09/20/09
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Loc: MO, On the Mississippi
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?
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#185506 - 10/16/09 04:03 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: dweste]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
The pine cones with the larger nuts are okay, but the little ones aren't really worth the effort for the calories gained.

Sue

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#185510 - 10/16/09 04:28 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: Susan]
dougwalkabout Offline
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Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 3219
Loc: Alberta, Canada
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.


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#185520 - 10/16/09 05:41 AM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: dougwalkabout]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
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Loc: Central California
Re the wheat: how intend to harvest, winnow out chaff, clean, etcetera?


Edited by dweste (10/16/09 05:42 AM)

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#185551 - 10/16/09 02:01 PM Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain? [Re: dweste]
CANOEDOGS Offline
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Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 1853
Loc: MINNESOTA


from the banks of the Mississippi river---



wild grapes--



from abandon farms--



gone wild apples--



for my sort of wild,wine making hobby--





Edited by CANOEDOGS (10/16/09 02:02 PM)

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