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@@rochrich1223 yeah absolutely there have been selections of black locust for tall straight trees. I am working to get my hands on some. Much easier if lumber is your main goal

@@mattcantrell5640 that’s awesome ! Your first bed is always a special experience. If you’re interested in purchasing hazelnuts i think Feralwood nursery still has some. They’re a very similar operation to me, I get a lot of inspiration from them

@@jacintasimon9388 no I’m in the US, Virginia and North Carolina

@@wendyleslie6461 absolutely ! Spot on about the bees. I generally find seeds more forgiving than transplants. Yeah it’s strange if you live in a place where black locust are abundant to imagine people wanting to pay for seeds/trees. But people (myself included obviously) love them and need ways to grow them where they aren’t abundant. I now live in a place covered in locust but I grew up where they were not common at all. It’s an odd comparison!

Do you eat the seeds?

@@popaopol no but I do eat the flowers

@@livingsoiltreefarm I grew up in Kansas and those trees are basically pests. Really liked finding out there is a edible use, thanks! Especially in these times

@@popaopol yeah absolutely, all about context. In the wrong place these trees could be a real problem. In their native range though they are an awesome tree to work with ! The flowers are pretty good but they need to be fresh. I try to get them the first day they open up for best flavor.

@@gm7304 a special moment !

@@bradleywhite5941 heck yeah! I love to hear that :)

@@iamnotguilty yeah campgrounds can be an awesome place to collect !

This year is my first try. From what I've read moist peat in ziplock bags should do fine (but not dripping wet). The bags are thin enough to still allow gas exchange. Do check on them a few times through the winter and discard any problematic ones. Don't let them dry out; add a little water if needed. Also, get the PDF of the Forest Service Woody Plant Seed Manual. It has over one thousand pages covering seed collection, handling, storing and germination for 236 genera of trees. There are lots of other good references but this is the one I keep coming back to.

@@Dadnatron this time of year can quickly become overwhelming! I can definitely make a video soon going over some of my nut storage stuff. I will sometimes use ziplocks in the fridge and I’m leaning towards no medium in the bag when I do that. Without medium in the bag it’s easier to keep an eye out for mold. If you see mold early on it’s easy to rub it off and the seeds are not harmed. I’m finding the golden rule in ziplocks is you do not want to see drops of water. I little bit of condensation is okay but if there’s big drops that’s a sign things are way too wet. It took me a long time to learn that one. I had so many mold issues in the fridge previously. Using peat most or sand or any other medium is totally fine too. It’s probably better for the micro biome of the seed to have some sort of medium in there. All that said I find the easiest thing for me is to store nut seed in buckets out side. I have shown this in some videos recently I can try to tag you or something. I never seem to have mold issues outside, just have to keep them safe from squirrels!

@@cedarmyers6709 the PDF of the woody plant seed manual is such an awesome resource. Can not recommend that enough! All great points :) have fun on your first year, it’s a special time

@@jamestaylor8217 campus settings like that can be SO loaded this time of year it is actually crazy

Last year was my first year. All I did was to build an air pruning bed and sow my acorns right into them about 1" deep in the fall. I had 100% success. (I did float test mine first and only planted the ones that sank.)

@@BRaff-hl4ip great question. I would say with good acorns easily upwards of 80%

@@lizhyink5636 nice !! I have used the oil to cook and it worked well but I haven’t played with it a lot yet. So far the only high heat thing I’ve tried is to cook up zucchini in a pan with the hickory oil. Folks say the smoke point is similar to olive oil. My favorite thing is to eat it with sourdough bread and salt. The flavor is really present and strong that way. I bet it would be great in dressings! I should try that. Acorn and walnut oils on the other hand are not good for high heat uses from what I have read. My friend Justin says he keeps his at room temp but to make it last really long and preserve flavor the fridge or freezer is best. I keep mine in the fridge

@@masonreeves4775 nice !!!

@@TheWoodlandOrchard that’s awesome !! Glad to hear you like the video :)

@@TheWoodlandOrchard best of luck on the redesign! I’m no expert but feel free to hit me up if you have any questions throughout the process

@@livingsoiltreefarm Thank you. I'll hopefully document the process in video too. Planning to make a start once I've completed the online PDC I'm working through right now. Thanks again for the videos and the inspiration.

@@TheWoodlandOrchard that’s great!! Keep up the good work, I look forward to following along

@@livingsoiltreefarm Thank you.

@@BackyardBerry yeah there are some rough patches here - this was a bit rushed on my end I will admit

@@livingsoiltreefarm a comment is a comment is a comment. Just what I noticed. No worries.

@@BackyardBerry oh man seriously. Once I switched to torx I couldn’t believe how rare it was to strip a screw. So much easier

@@nakedoaktreefarm oh man right back at you, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one pulling walnuts so early ! Chinkapins are super cool, glad you could make a nice space for them :)

@@BackyardBerry I wouldn’t be where I’m at without Sean and Akiva and others. Seriously. Woodchips are such a resource. I need to talk about that in my leaf compost video as well

@@livingsoiltreefarm Sean is the one who got me started down the rabbit hole I continue down today.

@@BackyardBerry I can fondly remember when I first found those videos a few years back. I’d be in a different place without that experience

@@livingsoiltreefarm me too. Me too. Right at the beginning of 2020.

@@livingsoiltreefarm officially @1k. Congrats my friend.

@@BackyardBerry yeah and fitting timing too because I need to find a new source now that I’m in VA

@@BackyardBerry I’ll def talk about it soon ! Good idea

@@livingsoiltreefarm very good. Looking forward to it. I’ve gotta get something going myself soon and am interested to see your take on it.

@@foodplantnursery happy to do it ! Glad you liked it :)

@@pitman225 😁😁❤️

@@Dadnatron nice !! I need to get some northern red for the nursery, I’ve collected buckets but they Went to flour and to feeding the pigs. Still tons on the ground here. Glad to hear you appreciate the channel :)

@@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor 😊❤️

@@carolfanconi7776 😁😁

@@wildabezet860 I’ve got videos that show it in more detail on my channel if you’re more of a visual person. It’s a little hard to describe. But I clamp hardware cloth onto the bottom of the frame by sandwiching it between 2 bys drilled to the bottom of my beds

@@ksdoubledrop that’s great input thanks !

@@KnightOfRandom they can sometimes have big years followed by small years in terms of plum production so that may be what’s going on. I think you are always better off planting plum seed as soon as you eat the fruit. Doesn’t mean you’re doomed if you keep the seed in the fridge. But my preference and advice would definitely be to plant them outdoors now. Keep me posted ! They are cool trees!

@livingsoiltreefarm OK thanks! And nearby there were small trees that were loaded in these red berries that for the life of me cannot find a match for online. They're not honeysuckle berries. But they look like Buffalo berries but the leaves are different, smooth edge alternating leaves and clusters of red berries with medium length stems. The tree was LOADED and the berries have kinda a freckle look but are red. Id love to know if they're something that you could make jelly from.. little bigger than a pea in size. Oh and in central Kansas

@@KnightOfRandom maybe spicebush? Hard to tell without a picture. There’s a few red berries this time of year

@@livingsoiltreefarm nope. Not those.. there perfectly round. I could change my profile picture to the picture I took. Lol

@@KnightOfRandom hmm okay, your profile pic right now looks like autumn olive but I can’t be 100% sure

@@ambersmith6517 😜

@@jamesarnold5698 they are one of the harder ones to find and collect from in my experience. At least in our region. I don’t know of many good spots. I have a good spot for mockernut in the piedmont. I don’t know anywhere in the costal plain. The mockernut spot is on private land but I on decent terms with the landowner. I know of one other hickory in a public park in chapel hill. I think it’s a bitternut. I have found the most hickories at churches actually. Usually mockernut and pignut in the piedmont. But of all the trees I have found at these churches none produced last year and I haven’t checked this year. There is a grove of shell bark in Durham but it’s deep woods and really hard to access. When you say piedmont/coastal plain how far within that area will you travel?

@@livingsoiltreefarm I'm in the Wilmington area, so it's pretty tough as well. I've come across a pretty decent stand of Pignut Hickory's if you can get them before the wildlife does. I use to work at a small Army installation that had the most Hickory trees I have ever seen. I'm open to getting out and traveling pretty much anywhere, always up for an adventure. The past two seasons, I've been collecting buckets full of Swamp Chestnut Oak acorns.

@@jamesarnold5698 those are really nice. I want to find some swamp white oak. If you wanna go to my website and shoot me an email I can send you some locations. It’ll be easier if I can drop some pins. I have a tree map on google maps I can share with you.

@@hasenafarms6448 you can definitely move paw paw seedlings when they are dormant just try to be careful to get the whole tap root. If you damage the tap root I recommend cutting back some of the branches to make up for lost roots. Does that make sense ? Paw paw suckers are much harder to dig up with success. I have heard that paw paw suckers are more successful if moved in early spring

@@millerward7442 so glad to connect with others who appreciate these trees !

@@livingsoiltreefarm You'll be happy to know there is growing momentum around this tree in the North East :)

@@millerward7442 that’s the best news I’ve heard all day!

@@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor yes absolutely! It is a strange but wonderful feeling this time of year. These little trees have brought me much joy over the warm months and now I get to send them off to their forever homes. Emotional is the best way to describe it like you said

@@zachwest6795 not yet but I expect that to happen at some point. I know other folks have had issues with that.

Just placed an order for black walnuts and some trees. Looking forward to adding them to my greenhouse!

@@zachwest6795 Awesome !! I saw your order come in and appreciate you supporting us :) looking forward to sending you a box of trees and seed! I will likely send the seed in a separate box prior to shipping the trees. The seed should be ready to ship soon.

@@BackyardBerry mmmm they might be a little hot but it’s probably not a big deal. Do they have rims ? I would be worried they might sag a bit under the weight or not stay level. Unless they have rims on them. Where are you located roughly? Heat could maybe be an issue Deep South

@@livingsoiltreefarm central KY. They don’t have rims so that’s a very valid concern. Right now I’ve been using old cinder blocks the way you have been, but I’ve run out in the process of scaling up production.

@@BackyardBerry yeah I am ALWAYS scrounging for more blocks 😂😂 railroad ties or other large cut lumber could work too.

@@GG-sy2rg yeah I sell seedlings of these trees and many others both wild and cultivated

@@BackyardBerry thank you! That’s a good line up. I do work with shrubs and I’m trying to expand my shrub selection more and more each year. I do have elderberry right now ready to go. I have some mulberry and service berry but they’re on the smaller side and I might grow them out another year before selling them. Still deciding on that

@@livingsoiltreefarm very nice. What avenues do you plan to expand into? I was thinking of having a pollinator/bird/wildlife offering. Working with things like cornus florida/buttonbush/viburnums etc. Keep on keepin on brother. Love the work.

@@BackyardBerry right back at ya!! 🌱🔥 I just feel like there aren’t many sources to get a lot of the food producing native shrubs. But they serve such an important role for wildlife, food forests, and being able to fit in small spaces such as urban yards. I’ve got lots of ideas. For next year. I want to get more elderberry variety. I’ve got 100s of Chickasaw plum seeds stratifying. Planning to dig up more plum suckers from the patch I forage at. I’d like to grow even more hazelnut seedlings. Got a lot of seed luckily. Continue to expand paw paw offerings. I’d like to get some sumac planted from seed. Last year I grew a few false indigo bush from seed this year I wanna do way more. I’ve got spice bush going and wanna keep growing more of them. What else.. let’s see.. OH more service berry of course I think wild plum, hazel, elder, juneberry and false indigo are the most important species for me to expand next season. Dogwood and redbud also kinda fit in the category and I’m growing them too

@@livingsoiltreefarm I’ve got 3 named cutting varieties hardening off for transplant now as well as a “cultivar mix” from edible acres. I also have some seed grown elderberry from experimental farm network. The packs were “wyldewood II” and “elderberry breeders mix”. I’d love to purchase some of those wild plum once they’re up and going. Where are you located?

@@BackyardBerry nice!! I got some of that seed from EFN as well but I think I lost those seedling sadly. I’m currently in south western VA near Martinsville. The last few years I was in NC outside of Durham. The wild plum patch is down near Raleigh

@@BackyardBerry I’ve been thinking about planting some persimmons at the grocery store, what a great place to have them! I’m planing to buy some seed from cliff too I need to get on that

@@livingsoiltreefarm yeah me too. Haha great minds think alike. 👍

@@rw699 that’s a very good question. As I’m filling the beds some soil falls through but once you get a few inches piled up and moistened the soil sticks together enough to not fall through. You could certainly use cardboard, it will break down before the roots reach the length. I sometimes put a layer of woodchips on the bottom before the soil. That does the same thing

@@andyjohnson5571 wow I’ve never seen hazelnut full of worms that sucks. Are the shrubs healthy? Do they get full sun? That sucks !

@@sweetdaddy8127 they are very similar but technically they’re two different species. Both native and both make tasty hazelnuts. I don’t know much about the beaked species except that it is more cold hardy

@@flamingcouch-mp6de might not be a good idea because you don’t want to ingest the flesh that is directly against the skin and seeds. Apparently that can make you sick. I’m not sure the best way to pulp paw paws