100's of pounds of walnuts....done!

How many of these buckets of nuts have we picked in the past two weeks?

1000's?

Maybe it just feels like 1000's.

No more walnuts!

We both work really hard gathering the walnuts.

We get walnut stained fingers,

walnut stained knees,

and walnut stained clothes.

Now the walnuts are off to the dryers.

Should be home on Thursday.

2.25 per pound.

We have someone who would buy all of the nuts, but he will just ship them to China.

There they would be shelled and packaged,
in order to send them back to the US

to be sold in little cellophane bags at your local Wal-mart or Kroger store.

We don't want to be a part of that process.

So instead we sell them to folks who want 

local,

natural,

real

food.

We end up trading,

giving,

sharing,

the nuts with others.

There is something that is very gratifying about the whole process,
and also addictive.

Thank you big old wonderful walnut trees!