![]() Here’s one of the shorter and more straightforward ones that doesn’t suggest you need to buy unnecessary tools. You can find several helpful videos on Youtube about harvesting the nuts. The juices of the fleshy outer husks or drupes can stain the hands dark brown if you don’t wear gloves, and the maggots of a couple common insect pests often infest the drupe under the skin around the actual nut, without affecting the quality of nut itself. ![]() (The second batch arrived after a windy night of rain a few weeks ago, bringing down a second harvest from the nuts beyond our reach.) As anyone knows who’s worked with the fresh nuts, they’re messy to handle. I just finished shelling the first of two batches of nuts this morning. One of “our” black walnuts in early October Whether your tree neighbours are oaks and ashes, palms or olives, eucalyptus or baobab or deodar, getting to know them is often the truest part of ogham work. Trying out what actually works is a time-honoured Druid activity that can engage anyone, Druid or not, all our lives. Native Americans, no slouches where natural wisdom is concerned, have their own tree lore that’s very worth delving into, and the same holds true for other regions of the globe. ![]() Many Druids outside Celtic regions, where one particular set of native trees has acquired rich ritual significance, have explored sets of other trees and other attributions, sometimes coming to recognize the potential of their own local tree neighbours. The name of the walnut itself, originally wealh hnutu “foreign nut” in Old English, supplies one hint as to why. No surprise - the black walnut is native to North America, from where it’s been exported. The walnut, and particularly the black walnut ( juglans nigra - Wikipedia link) growing in our back yard here in Vermont, isn’t included in the original ogham fews or ranks of European ritual trees and plants that Druids often work with. ![]()
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