Harvesting Walnuts

So the previous owner planted 4 English walnut trees out front - probably cheap-y $1 saplings from the County Extension. Planted at least 2 years before we bought the land, so they got their first big years of growth when spring sprang for us in 2002.

Now, 7 years later, the nuts have finally started to fall. These walnut trees have had some hard years, the windstorms (and last winter's ice storm) have whacked most of the trees' upper branches more than once. But still they formed enough to get our first (small) crop of nuts.

Here's what we did with them:

More tips and resources

• U-Minnesota Cooperative Extension - "Harvesting Walnuts"
• NewHomestead blogpost about walnuts
• Finally, how to shell walnuts! (freezing and hammering)