Going nuts with Red Oak and Black Walnut

    Last winter I purchased 2 acres adjacent to my back yard that has a dozen or so mature black walnut trees (among many others). While I was doing morning walks to collect the newly fallen walnuts, I kept hearing what I thought was a large animal moving in the woods up the hill from my property. After some investigation, I found that it was no animal, but a MASSIVE red oak tree and a few of it's offspring dropping hundreds of nuts at every gust of wind. I excitedly started collecting the acorns from these couple trees along side the chipmunk.
    As it appears to be a bumper year, It seems there is plenty for all of us (turkeys, deers, and jays included).
I bought a table top nutcracker and a bigger basalt mocajete to celebrate this bounty and am looking forward towards making breads, puddings and roasted/seasoned nuts.
    I have also filled my small hot house with acorns and will hopefully be planting a hundred or so more red oaks next year. I've walked the small mountain uphill of me and believe that the couple oaks I've found are the only ones left in a sea of maple. I have told the tree thanks and promised the big one (now called big papa) as well as the concerned chipmunks that I will do my best to ensure a nutty future for us all.

oh boy have you got some leaching to do! have you thought about how you want to do that part of the acorn processing?

looks nice a nice haul.

For bread and pudding use i will crack grind the acorns into flour and cold soak them in large buckets of water for several days with daily changes. For roasting, I'll just crack and boil them in several water changes. I've never processed them but have read a few things. I guess running water like a river or some equivalent might be better for leaching, but I don't have any close by to utilize.