Vegan bought a farm in Scottish Highlands to grow a NUT tree forest

[hendrebc]

Good luck to them. At least they have put their money where their mouth is this time not just trying to tell us how to do it because they know best.
I do think they have just accidentally started a squirrel sanctuary though and won't see any nuts themselves

 

[Bury the Trash]

Who will pick them

Plenty doing nothing in Glasgow, they could minibus them up for the week.

 

[Agrivator]

I think they might be disappointed if they expect hazel in the Highlands to produce the sort of Cob nuts we get (or got) in our Christmas stockings. Newly planted wild-hazel take about 10 years to start producing nuts in any quantity, and there is a big variation form year to year.

Even in a good year, the nuts usually fail to produce a kernel worth risking your teeth trying to crack them. And when you resort to using a handy stone, the best you can hope for is a mushy crushed kernel. But I suppose, there will be a bit of local demand from stick dressers.

Having said that, nobody should go through life without tasting the remnants of the green bracts when you are young enough to persevere cracking them with your teeth.

 

[Bury the Trash]

always pays to keep a pair of nut crackers handy

 

[Cowcorn]

Sounds like a fruit and nut scheme !!

 

[TripleSix]

Nuttier than squirrel turds

 

[kill]

Good luck to them. At least they have put their money where their mouth is this time not just trying to tell us how to do it because they know best.
I do think they have just accidentally started a squirrel sanctuary though and won't see any nuts themselves

Just had to recheck my dates as for a minute I thought I'd been unconscious for a while and it's before midday on the first of April

 

[Henarar]

I think they might be disappointed if they expect hazel in the Highlands to produce the sort of Cob nuts we get (or got) in our Christmas stockings. Newly planted wild-hazel take about 10 years to start producing nuts in any quantity, and there is a big variation form year to year.

Even in a good year, the nuts usually fail to produce a kernel worth risking your teeth trying to crack them. And when you resort to using a handy stone, the best you can hope for is a mushy crushed kernel. But I suppose, there will be a bit of local demand from stick dressers.

Having said that, nobody should go through life without tasting the remnants of the green bracts when you are young enough to persevere cracking them with your teeth.

all you need to open a hazel nut is your pocket knife

 

[Kidds]

How do vegans control squirrels?

 

[Henarar]

How do vegans control squirrels?

do lots of painting

 

[Cowabunga]

Having visited the hazelnut growers who supply Ferrero Rocher for their choccies when we were in Chile last year, they have a snowballs chance in hell of growing them in Scotland!

Let them find out for themselves.

 

[david ll]

Will surely be an eye opener for them when they realise its not so easy to grow food anywhere

 

[puppet]

The Croft is well up north, around 70 acres with extra grazing rights. £18 if you want to sponsor a tree. 65 had by last night. She mentions overgrazing by sheep and having to restore the soil fertility, neither of which should have been a problem in Sutherland. The photos show pretty wild countryside. Looking for money to restore barns, etc.
Good luck if they can make a living but the time to see a return may finish them.

 

[Cowabunga]

The Croft is well up north, around 70 acres with extra grazing rights. £18 if you want to sponsor a tree. 65 had by last night. She mentions overgrazing by sheep and having to restore the soil fertility, neither of which should have been a problem in Sutherland. The photos show pretty wild countryside. Looking for money to restore barns, etc.
Good luck if they can make a living but the time to see a return may finish them.

They are currently trying to make a living by, effectively, begging.

 

[n.w]

Do they not offer anything in return for the funding ? I have a few hazel shrubs i planted 20yrs ago here in the Isle of Harris, never seen a nut

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Sick to fudging death hearing about fudging vegans! Wish they would all p!ss off and pine away!

sounds like they have cracked you, and you have lost your nut,

 

[Cowabunga]

sounds like they have cracked you, and you have lost your nut,

Gone bananas.
A real fruitcake.
Crackers.
Nutty.

 

[Agrivator]

all you need to open a hazel nut is your pocket knife

Even if you've just used it to gut a rabbit?

 

[Cowabunga]

Even if you've just used it to gut a rabbit?

It will be fresh. As long as the tapeworms are wiped off with a bit of dock leaf it shouldn't cause any permanent harm.

 

[n.w]

just saw this in the news.. vegan parents
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49430857