Chestnut Harvest 2024!

Edible Acres is a full service permaculture nursery located in the Finger Lakes area of NY state. We grow all layers of perennial food forest systems and provide super hardy, edible, useful, medicinal, easy to propagate, perennial plants for sale locally or for shipping around the country…
Happy growing!

[FolkRockFarm]

One of my favorite thoughts is people finding all of my trees after I've departed this mortal realm. What a legacy we can all leave behind!

[katiemoyer]

Lovely, thank you for sharing this bountiful chestnut harvest. Ahhh, five acres of chestnuts❣️😍

[RandyLayhey-ti]

That looks amazing! Trees are awesome ❤ I can't wait to hear about how you store them, as i also have an abundance of chestnuts.

[CorwynGC]

Chestnut harvest used to be a huge community event, with food for everyone.

[Quercusssss]

Such a thoughtful gesture to plant those trees !

[tkoss-]

A few days ago while on a hike I ran into a wild chestnut forest, and although on a much smaller scale I collected as many as I could fit in my backpack. This was my first time collecting so many and the satisfaction from foraging my food was immense, maybe better than what I get from growing it. Next autumn I'll definitely go back in the same place better equipped to collect more like you guys do! Anxiously waiting for your notes on storage, since I've been struggling to find realistic options online.
Thanks for the inspiration! 🙏

[TwistedRootsVanVelzerPress]

they are very moisture laden - so make sure you guard against mold ! :) squirrels got over half of mine - but I have about 4 pounds out of the prickly pod and drying

[Gabi-ltmx]

Beautiful harvest. We have built a similar vibrating device from a wooden flap with a crossbar. Great for walnuts.

[shimilangagardens]

Wow that’s a lot of castanhas! I planted some from seed 3 years ago and I can’t wait (but I must) to harvest them. Nice to have long term goals to look forward to.

[BackyardBerry]

Looking forward to seeing how you process them to prevent spoilage in storage.

[HoboGardenerBen]

This is glorious! I spent a couple hours dehusking\washing walnuts yesterday, got them drying above the fridge in a cardboard box. Not as nice as your stacked trays and fan thing, but I'm still happy. Gathering nuts is how I want to spend every fall in my elder years. By then I'll probably be doing the same as him, inviting younger people in to share the abundance. Fruit too, but nuts give me much more of a satisfying prepped feeling because they're fat and protein, not just sugar. Fruit is still a healthy wonderful food, but eating just fruit puts me on the metabolic sugar roller coaster. I prefer the satiating long-burning digestive fire of nuts, it's like burning a dense hardwood in the belly stove vs pine branches.

The best ever would be to grow everything needed to make a fruit\nut pie of some kind. Hardest part would be the wheat for the pie crust, so I wonder about easier grown\harvested alternatives, like cauliflower, potato, pseudograins, etc. Anyone with experience growing their own pie crust? Now I'm wondering about crushed nuts in the crust too, some are very fatty, thought I've heard something about that. I'm all about growing everything needed for particular dishes, that gets me excited. Seems like an easier way to design a garden that grows all your needs. Start with meals that you can enjoy eating every day that the mix of provides all your micronutrients and then design the garden from there. Like that one guy making rounds on youtube right now who gdesigned his garden around a oil crop and a couple other piecea and went from there. Seemed incomplete in some micronutrients and fatty acid ratio of his oil crop wasn't great, but still cool to see someone approach it purely from a sustenance angle. That's why I love this channel, you eat so much food from your gardens AND make a living selling those plants, such a beautiful system!

[lindaholmes]

❤❤❤ Keep up the good work . I learned a lot from your channel.

[rickthelian]

If you put a trap underneath it would of been easier, the nut wizard is good😊

[tylerehrlich]

I have a feeling that three hundred years from now there will be confused legends of Sean the seed man who planted or grew the seed of most of the food some populations are eating.

[rebeccaday]

Put tarps or sheets below where you are shaking and it makes it easier to pick up all the nuts

[WattsMiner]

I'm excited for hickory nuts, black walnuts and chestnuts 🌰 😍

[petrosros]

What I meant to say, have you ever tried making them into jam. That is something the English always bring back from France, chestnut jam in a tin, lovely.

[medtronicmom]

We have what I think is a hickory tree--the nuts have proven to be a bit difficult to crack.

[BuddhiYoga]

What is your opinion on chestnut blight? Why isn't blight overtaking these trees like all the other chestnut trees in the US?

[organicogre]

Hey Sean, Do you know the varietals of the trees? Are they grafted? I'm curious if you bother harvesting nuts that aren't sweet and easy-peeling.