EP: 421 Growing Nut Trees on a Homestead Scale (What You Need to Know)

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

One of the crops that’s easily overlooked for growing a sustainable food source on the homestead is the nut tree. As with fruit trees, once a nut tree is established, it can produce food for your family for decades (and even generations) to come. Learn which nut trees are best for your homestead needs with David Hughes from Rock Bridge Trees. He’s sharing his best tips on nut tree care and maintenance, harvesting and even pest control. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/421.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.2	Hey pioneers welcome to episode number 421. Today's episode we are going to be
1:37.8	talking about raising and growing nut trees on the homestead.
1:44.0	And one of the reasons that decided to bring on today's guest
1:47.2	is not only obviously his knowledge of nut trees,
1:50.9	but he is dedicated to growing, cultivating, raising, and therefore also saving.
2:00.0	Nuttree varieties that we typically don't see when you are just buying from large scale commercial nurseries.
2:08.0	So he is going and finding the obscure, but that doesn't mean not as desirable different types of nut trees and so I love
2:22.3	supporting and learning about different I love airloom vegetable seeds. We've done episodes before on airloom
2:26.7	vegetable seeds. We've done episodes before on airloom apple tree varieties.
2:33.4	And so I'm excited to start to go down that path
2:37.1	when we are talking about nut trees.
2:39.0	So today's guest is David Hughes, and he has been having his nursery since 2010 that focuses specifically
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