Nuts As Staple Foods with Osker Brown

Nut based agroforestry offers a huge potential to increase the ecosystem functions of human habitats. Osker Brown, of Glorious Forest Farm, will discuss all aspects of nutrition, harvest, storage, processing, and culinary use of acorns, hazelnuts, chestnuts, hickories, and black walnuts. We will show and tell tools and methods for processing, and sample some treats. We will also cover tending wild habitats for these crops, as well as cultivation of them in managed landscapes, and integration with livestock and annual cropping systems. Learn about the abundance of nuts around you and explore their many beneficial uses.

[heyerstandards]

"Tree Crops" by J Russel Smith is an outstanding visionary resource for this concept. Written in the 1930-40's (prior to the Green Revolution) he gives narrates examples of cultures around the world who rely on tree crops. He also shows how tree crop yields (at the time) could have replaced calories from grain production. The book is available for free online as a PDF.

[ptheds]

This man is a saint and must be protected at all costs! Where can I buy his flour?

[jerskitty]

In the USA we could feed nuts to the pigs as part of a diversified diet. The tradition here was to feed the pigs with raw milk, whey, clapboard etc., because that was readily available on the farms. We also have forest/pastured pigs. The trick is to rotate the pigs often so the clean up and fertilize the forest floor without being left there long enough to damage the forest.

[somethingbeautiful]

Thank you so much for the in formation, I’m assuming that a second half is to follow?

[argentvixen]

like like like. looking forward to the the rest.

[fourdayhomestead]

Can each of these series be put into the play list. It's hard to locate each part in a series.

[rosstemple]

Nuts for a stable food source. Is this why we closed most of the looney bins? Mmmm soylent green hamburgers.