I confirm. I will keep this for backup

Here they are sprouting now with the somewhat colder and wetter weather.
I also happened to eat them raw by rubbing them a bit.
I had an experience similar to u/moonlune, I boiled them without removing the logs the result was a slop with these floating logs, the taste was good...

I have some of my great-grandfather's farm tools that still do their job well, an axe, a hoe, a sickle.
at least 70 years old but also more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
Wikipedia have a funny definition of first world country
basically by definition the us is the leader of the "first world"

The concept of First World originated during the Cold War and comprised countries that were under the influence of the United States and the rest of NATO and opposed the Soviet Union and/or communism during the Cold War. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the definition has instead largely shifted to any country with little political risk and a well-functioning democracy, rule of law, capitalist economy, economic stability, and high standard of living

is just what a cop would say!

For the cool stick in the background for this time I'll pretend nothing is wrong

I also use the backpack then move to the crates for storage.
I usually have to do a lot of road and in the mountains, but there are numerous trails so I take advantage with the mountain bike. the route is highly variable, for example:
one place I went to pick up is 10km of trails and after 2km of climbing.... Another was 30km but most were paved without too much slope.
Another place is only 4km away but I have to climb and walk through brambles.
But i usually choose simple places where there are only 5/10km mixed asphalt and trails where usually go backpack and mountain bike and sometime only backpack.
Usually I fill the backpack with 10kg of nuts.

Here are whole forests of wild chestnuts.
I am sorry there is only one left and the other one died :'(
Are very hardy plants, how come it died? didn't make more shoots the root? Maybe it is some cultivated variety that is less hardy?
It is also strange that out of six planted only two survived

I forgot a very important detail, no cars were used in the trial!!!

walnuts also here are brown but inside they are good, usually when they have problems it is the inside that does not develop.

Instead here the oaks seem to me to be more resilient than the olive trees. I have seen oak forests that after fires, overgrazing and drought thrive as if nothing happened where olive groves need constant care from humans to survive.
I rarely see olive sprouts while oak sprouts are frequent, here the problem with oaks is the grazing that far exceeds the capacity of the woods, which causes whatever manages to sprout to be devoured after a few months.

Delving deeper into oak trees, there is also to say that there are many different kinds of them and some have problems here as well (can't remember the names). One spece is loaded with acorns even the small trees, altre spece only the larger ones hanno frutti, in some zone dont not fruit every year...

many type: walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, some acorn....

I am the 18,000th loser!!!! what an honor!

Yes, that's the goal! this year I haven't succeeded yet, but as I'm figuring it out, I think for the next few years I might be able to do it.

I am not happy whit the small amount of nuts gathered this year (still not finished) too many things in my head, lack of a "proven method", I arrived at the best time for harvest confused and not ready.
At least I am understanding a lot of things that I will need next year.
And I will be forced not to base my food on the fall harvest but will have to come up with something else

Some wild grains can also be harvested in the wild (like wild oat), The difficult part is not the harvesting but the preparation, they usually have defense mechanisms that make it difficult to "swallow" them

I still need to conduct further experiments, but I think a good way to prepare Wild Oat seeds is to harvest them and sprout them, after they sprout it is much easier to separate "the straw" and the things that stuck in the throat from the seed

Fuck family!!! but unfortunately sometimes theory does not coincide well with reality I'd love to fuck off my family and never see them again, but I've realized that for now it's not good for me, I don't like them and they are not related and often create problems but despite all the problems and contradictions, I'm realizing that FOR NOW I'm better off taking advantage of what little support they give me. I have to admit that my future prospects are relatively better now "with family" than when I lived in a squat whit comrade. Obviously I still want to get rid of the family but when it is advantageous for me to do so. Ideals are nice but....

someone already speculates this beautiful technology: https://hackaday.com/2017/07/11/bicycling-in-space/

When anarchy comes, there will be no more capitalists to impose a system of irrational production based on exploitation and pollution . So anarcho-scientists will invent a way to build space bicycles, which can be produced by small communities with only local products (wood, iron) without pollution in a short time and without division of labor. So I will stop exploring the woods with my capitalist mtb and start exploring space with OUR new anarcho-space-bike.

This is to cool now i am an anarcho-space-cyclist

Not is general food!!! Is exploitation-free, wild, healthy and tasty food is not like that crap that is sold as food

The context, imagine that as you walk in the woods, the trees start throwing delicious and nourishing food at you.

chestnut