The fleeting bloom, a burst of light, A dance of petals, soft and bright, A moment's grace, then fades away, Like whispers on a summer's day. The steadfast tree, with roots so deep, Through seasons changing, it will keep, A silent witness, strong and tall, A guardian through the winter's call.
In America the Oak wood has always been a favorite for furniture and cabinets. In recent years, the white oak has become more rare and replaced with mainly red oak. The problem with red oak is the color limitations when staining. The red is almost always evident. As for the acorns, the squirrels get mad at me when I take their nuts so I don’t really eat them. I just wait until the squirrels get nice and fat and then eat the squirrels. It’s a joke. 😊
Vanessa, if you crack them LENGTHWISE, they open easier. Also, put the acorns in water overnight, change the water a couple times during the day, after two days, they are ready. Raw, in processed acorns that float in water, toss them! They have bugs in them. Also, a good flour as well.
I was thinking in an emergency situation the acorns after the boiling process to make them edible would, also, be good in a soup with whatever other wild leaves and roots are available. Also, reuse the acorn coffee grounds in your soup or stew.
Around here in Southwest Arkansas we have trees like persimmons, pawpaw, hickory, oak, walnut, pecan and pine. I live in the woods. We can eat the fruit and nuts. Every fall we gather the persimmons,pawpaw, hickory nuts, walnuts, and pecans. We only eat acorns and pine nuts in emergency. Pine needle tea is also good for coughs and cold. It is high in vitamin A and C. We most use oak for firewood and furniture. The squirrels love acorns and in turn they are tasty. We eat squirrels.
The Oak Tree in the 🇬🇧 UK 🇬🇧 is a national treasure, over the centuries we have made furniture and beams for houses and the Royal Navy have saved our country from the Kings of Spain 🇪🇸 to Napoleon , and help the UK build an Empire World 🌎 Wide and of course we can eat its nuts to feel our belly and and drink nut coffee brew . What a wonderful Tree 🌳 THE OAK TREE . ❤VANESSA
My dog, a Queensland healer mix, I had in the 90's-2000s, would eat the acorns raw! She had a technique of holding the nut in her paws, like chewing a bone, to split 'em open and eat. We had a hugh scrub oak tree in the yard and she was always outside. Certain years the tree would drop a lot of acorns, certain years, not so many. She also loved eating plums when they fell and dried out on the ground.😊 Outdoors, the nuts can be shelled smashing them with a heavy rock too. Thanks, Vanessa🤘🏻✌🏼👍🏻
Alexa just told me that most trees that produce nuts are hardwoods. Hardwoods are good building materials for homes and furniture, and they burn hotter and longer than softwoods. That was a magnificent tree.
ask Alexa about Osage / horse apple. It burns hotter than any other wood. Most BTU's per pound of wood, and it puts out a Fruit and not a nut. Tho not ideal for use in cooking
I can remember as a child, many years ago, we use to pick them and throw them on top of a wood fired stove or a fry pan over a campfire. We roasted them until the outer shell cracked and scooped out the inner portion and ate them on the spot.
I miss the quiet videos where you and Ieyika (?) go for a long walk in silence. I cannot do this so it is great to be included in your quiet walk. ❤ No noise, no talking, no bad music.🙏
I like acorns. I have split them and boil leached them, then rolled them in sugar and cinnamon. OK, not survival foor but a good wild treat! A few years ago I did the much longer process of cold leaching. This involves grinding them up and changing water every day for a week or more. The resulting flour made really good sugar cookies half and half with regular flour!
I recently learned research has determined soaking well-cracked acorns in ethanol for 3 hours is sufficient to pull out the tannins, rendering them edible the same day gathered. Does your dog eat acorns?
Ive used a pair of long-handled lopers for cutting & quartering walnuts & I thought that worked well. A smaller, similar hand-held pruning device would work well for acorns I think. You still have to be careful where your fingers are when you cut them but seems more stable to me than a knife
Removing the tannic acid from the acorns with the warm water process is called " leaching". Leaching the acorns is to soak them in warm water to remove the tannic acid from the acorns . Leaching
One of my neighbors owns such a tree, very old and huge. The squirrels bury acorns in my backyard each autumn, and since they are not very smart they often forget to reclaim them all.
Here in Austin, Texas, we can only boast about a half-dozen types of oak: nothing sturdy enough for furniture, but they're popular enough as shade trees, and they even include some of the so-called "live oaks" that are almost evergreen. They're great at resisting drought and fire, but what they're NOT good at is resisting ice & snow: along with a lot of the other none-too-sturdy trees planted for shade in Austin, they cracked, dropped branches, and even fell over when we had a rare, hard freeze in 2023 . . . taking down power lines and causing city-wide blackouts. As for food, I don't know how edible they are, but the kind called "post oak" (quercus stellata) is the wood that the local barbecue experts like to use.😋
Yep, after a few so-called "magic words", the Roman Catholic "Survival diet" however also includes "Humans" as "superfoods" ... and I bet some of them are salivating at the thought of the many ways of eating Vanessa Blank from Wild Woman Bushcraft, right now @0.09 ......
Good information. Have you ever read Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"? More land ethic than bushcrafting but just for fun you might enjoy it. Especially one called "Good Oak". It is one of my beloved books. Just thought I'd share. If you haven't read it and can access it might become one of yours. I especially like "Great Possessions" in it.
And she knows how to apply it sparingly, just enough to enhance without looking like she painted it on with a string mop. She has natural beauty to start with.
Many years ago I was traveling and stayed in a Bed and Breakfast and there was a Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), which have large acorns, but this bur oak had acorns that were large even for a bur. These acorns had NO tannin that could be tasted. It was like eating a pecan. I was amazed. It should be sold commercially. I wish I had never tried it because I have tried so many acorns since then and they all have had tannins that are very unpleasant. I have planted oaks every since then that have been found to have low tannins. I have thought many times of trying to visit that B & B and seeing if that tree is still there and trying to take scion.
I have always heard that acorns are slightly poisonous, not enough to kill you but enough to make you feel sick. Maybe that's just because they're so bitter when they're fresh?
They're full of tannins and will make you sick, so you have to process them in order to remove it. You're better off collecting pine nuts and beech nuts instead, the beech nuts have to be cooked. Learn to forage and you'll never starve, the UK Wildcrafts channel has the best information on this.
I replied to you, Randy, but she shadow banned my comment. If you want to see the banned comments on any TH-cam video, go to the "Sort by" menu for comments and choose the "Newest first" option. They re-appear when you do that. Also, remember to take note of the person's name you were replying to because you'll have to scroll down to find it, due to the comment order being changed.
Maybe you can eat German acorns without prepping them, but the American variety has to be soaked and rinsed for a couple days or they will be so bitter you will vomit up your socks .
Danke Vanessa. Mal zur Abwechslung "uff Franzeesch"! Nur schade, dass die Übersetzung ins Französische sehr zu wünschen übrig lässt. 'Eichel' wird z. B. mit 'noix' (Walnuss) übersetzt, wo es doch richtig 'gland' heißt... Meine Heimat, das Limousin, ist auch für ihre mächtigen, schnell wachsenden Eichen bekannt, ja berühmt. Aus ihrem Holz werden die traditionellen Cognac-Fässer hergestellt!
Hi Vanessa, I was wondering, I’m not sure if any of your viewers talked about this or not but, is it possible to make acorn paste out of this? Can these be made into something like peanut butter style? Please let me know. Thanks!
Liebe Vanessa… warum wurde dieses Video von dir mit KI gesprochen ? Das mag ich so überhaupt nicht und zerstört massiv deine persönliche Art und Note die du jedem deiner Videos verleihst !! Wenn und falls ich hier etwas falsch eingestellt haben sollte dann entschuldige ich mich bei dir ….aber ich vermute mal das das ohne dein Wissen passierte ?!! Herzliche Grüße Patrick
Thnx for sharing.. never tried any form but it's good to know that's eatable ❤ Also thnx for all the other tips and tricks in the video's! I admire your knowledge, strenght and flexability.. "strong woman" 🙌🫶💪... big hug from Belgium
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The fleeting bloom, a burst of light,
A dance of petals, soft and bright,
A moment's grace, then fades away,
Like whispers on a summer's day.
The steadfast tree, with roots so deep,
Through seasons changing, it will keep,
A silent witness, strong and tall,
A guardian through the winter's call.
In America the Oak wood has always been a favorite for furniture and cabinets. In recent years, the white oak has become more rare and replaced with mainly red oak. The problem with red oak is the color limitations when staining. The red is almost always evident. As for the acorns, the squirrels get mad at me when I take their nuts so I don’t really eat them. I just wait until the squirrels get nice and fat and then eat the squirrels. It’s a joke. 😊
Squirrel Pot Pie !!! 😋
The mighty great oaks watched over this land forever. So beautiful.
Vanessa, if you crack them LENGTHWISE, they open easier. Also, put the acorns in water overnight, change the water a couple times during the day, after two days, they are ready. Raw, in processed acorns that float in water, toss them! They have bugs in them. Also, a good flour as well.
I was thinking in an emergency situation the acorns after the boiling process to make them edible would, also, be good in a soup with whatever other wild leaves and roots are available. Also, reuse the acorn coffee grounds in your soup or stew.
Thanks for the quick getaway!
Around here in Southwest Arkansas we have trees like persimmons, pawpaw, hickory, oak, walnut, pecan and pine. I live in the woods. We can eat the fruit and nuts. Every fall we gather the persimmons,pawpaw, hickory nuts, walnuts, and pecans. We only eat acorns and pine nuts in emergency. Pine needle tea is also good for coughs and cold. It is high in vitamin A and C. We most use oak for firewood and furniture. The squirrels love acorns and in turn they are tasty. We eat squirrels.
The Oak Tree in the 🇬🇧 UK 🇬🇧 is a national treasure, over the centuries we have made furniture and beams for houses and the Royal Navy have saved our country from the Kings of Spain 🇪🇸 to Napoleon , and help the UK build an Empire World 🌎 Wide and of course we can eat its nuts to feel our belly and and drink nut coffee brew .
What a wonderful Tree 🌳 THE OAK TREE .
❤VANESSA
bonjour, merci pour la traduction en français, bonne continuation
My dog, a Queensland healer mix, I had in the 90's-2000s, would eat the acorns raw! She had a technique of holding the nut in her paws, like chewing a bone, to split 'em open and eat. We had a hugh scrub oak tree in the yard and she was always outside. Certain years the tree would drop a lot of acorns, certain years, not so many. She also loved eating plums when they fell and dried out on the ground.😊
Outdoors, the nuts can be shelled smashing them with a heavy rock too.
Thanks, Vanessa🤘🏻✌🏼👍🏻
I've always wanted to learn this
Alexa just told me that most trees that produce nuts are hardwoods. Hardwoods are good building materials for homes and furniture, and they burn hotter and longer than softwoods. That was a magnificent tree.
ask Alexa about Osage / horse apple. It burns hotter than any other wood. Most BTU's per pound of wood, and it puts out a Fruit and not a nut. Tho not ideal for use in cooking
Merci beaucoup pour ce partage très précieux et apprécié.gratitude pour votre générosité et bienveillance.❤❤❤❤
My friend you explain things very well. You are helping a lot of people ❤ you
Thanks for your time. Love your accent ❤
Always great to see you...much love to you and your family. ❤
Awesome video nice cup of coffee Vanessa have a good upcoming week and family and friends god bless 🙏 🐕🦺👏👏⭐🍀👍🤩 hugs iii
Another "bushcraft" option for bread is adding plantain (psyllium) or flax seed to the acorn flour, both can often be found in autumn.
Happy Sunday evening 👍👋
I can remember as a child, many years ago, we use to pick them and throw them on top of a wood fired stove or a fry pan over a campfire. We roasted them until the outer shell cracked and scooped out the inner portion and ate them on the spot.
You're doing great 👍. Love the new changes you have made. Interesting content.
I miss the quiet videos where you and Ieyika (?) go for a long walk in silence.
I cannot do this so it is great to be included in your quiet walk. ❤
No noise, no talking, no bad music.🙏
I like your channel! It’s intriguing: very aware of the importance and the nature behind this content! Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much for this video.
Vanessa you're lovely and I really appreciate your insights on every video, thanks again ❤👍👍🙏🙏
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting :)
I like acorns. I have split them and boil leached them, then rolled them in sugar and cinnamon. OK, not survival foor but a good wild treat!
A few years ago I did the much longer process of cold leaching. This involves grinding them up and changing water every day for a week or more. The resulting flour made really good sugar cookies half and half with regular flour!
Nice video Vanessa!
Bonjour et merci pour la traduction ces cool souvent je les mange direct mais ça m'arrive de faire les deux méthodes enfin merci pour ta vidéo 💪👍🏴🏴☠️
excellent video and information, thanks for sharing..
😉Liked the video Vanessa 👍👋
❤. Hello Vanessa!
I recently learned research has determined soaking well-cracked acorns in ethanol for 3 hours is sufficient to pull out the tannins, rendering them edible the same day gathered. Does your dog eat acorns?
I always wondered about eating acorns. Now I know. Thanks 🙏
Ive used a pair of long-handled lopers for cutting & quartering walnuts & I thought that worked well. A smaller, similar hand-held pruning device would work well for acorns I think. You still have to be careful where your fingers are when you cut them but seems more stable to me than a knife
Awesome! I’m gonna try making acorn mush next fall!
Hello I haven’t watched your videos for quite some time but I enjoyed this video again and you are looking very good and healthy
Look at that dawg, such a good pup
Removing the tannic acid from the acorns with the warm water process is called " leaching".
Leaching the acorns is to soak them in warm water to remove the tannic acid from the acorns .
Leaching
One of my neighbors owns such a tree, very old and huge. The squirrels bury acorns in my backyard each autumn, and since they are not very smart they often forget to reclaim them all.
🌳 Learning more from you
Hi Vanessa, nice video
Wonderful information
I always love watching your videos you are so very ADORABLE and cute and you are highly intelligent 💖 ❤❤❤❤❤
Before you start opening them, you can put them in a pot of water. If any of them float, you don't want them.
Here in Austin, Texas, we can only boast about a half-dozen types of oak: nothing sturdy enough for furniture, but they're popular enough as shade trees, and they even include some of the so-called "live oaks" that are almost evergreen. They're great at resisting drought and fire, but what they're NOT good at is resisting ice & snow: along with a lot of the other none-too-sturdy trees planted for shade in Austin, they cracked, dropped branches, and even fell over when we had a rare, hard freeze in 2023 . . . taking down power lines and causing city-wide blackouts.
As for food, I don't know how edible they are, but the kind called "post oak" (quercus stellata) is the wood that the local barbecue experts like to use.😋
Praise Yahweh for Yahshua HalleluYah 😊❤
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Yep, after a few so-called "magic words", the Roman Catholic "Survival diet" however also includes "Humans" as "superfoods" ... and I bet some of them are salivating at the thought of the many ways of eating Vanessa Blank from Wild Woman Bushcraft, right now @0.09 ......
These are all over in the St. Louis area, where I grew up. No one ever told us what they were, unfortunately.
Nutcracker, like the opera by Tchaikovsky
To crack nuts, like oak acorns
None stop videos from u
Good information. Have you ever read Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"? More land ethic than bushcrafting but just for fun you might enjoy it. Especially one called "Good Oak". It is one of my beloved books. Just thought I'd share. If you haven't read it and can access it might become one of yours. I especially like "Great Possessions" in it.
Great thumbnail! You finally walked through a room that had makeup in it. 😁 More of this.
And she knows how to apply it sparingly, just enough to enhance without looking like she painted it on with a string mop. She has natural beauty to start with.
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Thanks on how to use natural resources for survival
Many years ago I was traveling and stayed in a Bed and Breakfast and there was a Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), which have large acorns, but this bur oak had acorns that were large even for a bur. These acorns had NO tannin that could be tasted. It was like eating a pecan. I was amazed. It should be sold commercially. I wish I had never tried it because I have tried so many acorns since then and they all have had tannins that are very unpleasant. I have planted oaks every since then that have been found to have low tannins. I have thought many times of trying to visit that B & B and seeing if that tree is still there and trying to take scion.
Hey Vanessa 👋 I tried but i can't eat acorns.
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I have always heard that acorns are slightly poisonous, not enough to kill you but enough to make you feel sick. Maybe that's just because they're so bitter when they're fresh?
They're full of tannins and will make you sick, so you have to process them in order to remove it. You're better off collecting pine nuts and beech nuts instead, the beech nuts have to be cooked. Learn to forage and you'll never starve, the UK Wildcrafts channel has the best information on this.
I replied to you, Randy, but she shadow banned my comment. If you want to see the banned comments on any TH-cam video, go to the "Sort by" menu for comments and choose the "Newest first" option. They re-appear when you do that. Also, remember to take note of the person's name you were replying to because you'll have to scroll down to find it, due to the comment order being changed.
My ancestors are from Flein!
Maybe you can eat German acorns without prepping them, but the American variety has to be soaked and rinsed for a couple days or they will be so bitter you will vomit up your socks .
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I've seen videos on native Americans making gravy
Danke Vanessa. Mal zur Abwechslung "uff Franzeesch"! Nur schade, dass die Übersetzung ins Französische sehr zu wünschen übrig lässt. 'Eichel' wird z. B. mit 'noix' (Walnuss) übersetzt, wo es doch richtig 'gland' heißt... Meine Heimat, das Limousin, ist auch für ihre mächtigen, schnell wachsenden Eichen bekannt, ja berühmt. Aus ihrem Holz werden die traditionellen Cognac-Fässer hergestellt!
You are adorable.
With this small bit of information I will survive. Chasing deer will never suffice. I get it now.
I was hoping you was going to make some food out of them =0(
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The oak nuts are called acorns
Hi Vanessa, I was wondering, I’m not sure if any of your viewers talked about this or not but, is it possible to make acorn paste out of this? Can these be made into something like peanut butter style? Please let me know. Thanks!
Our acorns are tiny.
Ich werde nie verstehen, warum diese Frau soo beliebt ist... ?!
Probavly mean to think of just using the acorns to trap squirrels huh?
Your English has come on xx
I think you were a eichelhanchjen in your past life😂
Your thumb nail was hot!
Liebe Vanessa… warum wurde dieses Video von dir mit KI gesprochen ? Das mag ich so überhaupt nicht und zerstört massiv deine persönliche Art und Note die du jedem deiner Videos verleihst !!
Wenn und falls ich hier etwas falsch eingestellt haben sollte dann entschuldige ich mich bei dir ….aber ich vermute mal das das ohne dein Wissen passierte ?!! Herzliche Grüße Patrick
Thnx for sharing.. never tried any form but it's good to know that's eatable ❤
Also thnx for all the other tips and tricks in the video's! I admire your knowledge, strenght and flexability.. "strong woman" 🙌🫶💪... big hug from Belgium
That french translate .... WTF 😨