I'll read the THE HAZELNUT AND CHESTNUT HANDBOOK: All you need to know to grow hazelnuts and chestnuts from 2 to 20,000 trees! book first just to make sure). - you get Hazelnuts in a few years (7 years till first full harvest =25 lbs nuts per tree x 28 trees= 500 pounds harvest (more like 200 lbs) in 7 years) - and there's a cooperative in Wisconsin - costs $1000 to join but then they'll buy the harvest (net $500 a year) since they have a commercial processor and marketing retail distribution...
“When we were first starting out,” Brad Nimcek of the American Hazelnut Company (AHC) remembers, “I was visiting local groceries, pitching our product. I walked into People’s Food Co-op in La Crosse and said to the first staff person I met: ‘Who should I talk to about getting our hazelnut oil into PFC?’ The young man, Ed Johnson, replied, ‘That would be me.’ I told Ed about our product. He heard me out and said: ‘Yes, we’re in.’ I love working with co-ops. You’ll often have that experience of dealing with real people that you don’t get at the big retailers.” This was in late 2016. AHC has supplied both PFC stores with hazelnut oil since that time.
Midwest hazelnuts have excellent flavor, but the nuts are smaller. The number of acres devoted to cultivation in the Midwest is not impressive. About 70% of the nuts used in AHC oil comes from Oregon since local growers aren’t able to supply enough... Hazelnuts are reputed to be thesoybean[Actually it's higher than Olive Oil!} of the tree world because of their high oil content. The plant is excellent for use in the region’s oak savanna ecosystems and has been found to be good for permaculture plantings. Brad reports he’s been approached by large-scale dairy operators looking to diversify.
Oregon
Hazelnut prices dropped in half last year - but with the global warming
droughts, etc. I'm not worried about the price of food too much.
Or
I could just eat them - with the shells on they store well. And of
course it's "regenerative agriculture" to store carbon -
There's a research Hazelnut seedling farm in Bayfield https://www.
Open-pollinated seedlings from high-performing plants from some of Badgersett's identified advanced breeding lines... Our most important selection criteria for our seed parents plants are healthy plants with apparently large crops of adequately-sized (for already existing commercial cracking and processing machinery) nuts.
https://conference.
Karen’s studied Biology and Ecology at Loyola University Chicago as well as Ecological Economics and Design at Prescott College. She is certified in Ecological Design from the Ecosa Institute and had been a lab technician in Terrestrial Ecology at Argonne National Laboratory and Protein Biochemistry at the University of Chicago. Karen also began surveying forests, savannas and prairies through the Student Conservation Association and carries on these practices to this day! https://www.forestag.com/collections/hazelnuts
Sold Out - I better order already! Dang....
Then
I would get some kind of fencing - I would try fishing line higher up
on 2 x 2 inch pine 8 foot tall posts - along with 4 feet tall chicken
wire fencing - and run it the 150 feet as a row of Hazelnut planted each
5 feet in center of row. Then the fencing would be 4 feet apart row
width (to further prevent deer jumping) - and put some plastic flag ties
on the 25 lb test (minimum) fishing line so the deer avoid it. Three
lines of fishing line at 8, 6.5 to 5 feet. Then the deer can go around
the 150 feet long x 4 foot wide x 8 foot tall fence block of 28 hazelnut
seedlings. Squirrels and birds will feast but I only have ONE squirrel
in my forest and I haven't noticed any bluejays (they love
hazelnuts)....
So $300 for the 150 foot row of 28 Hazelnut
seedlings, pick up in September. 140 feet long (28 x 5 foot spaced
seedlings) long plus 4 feet wide on each end = 150 feet Chicken wire per
side...$75 (150' roll) x 2= $150 plus the 2 x 2 inch pine posts 8 feet
tall - one every 25 feet; so 12 of them x $11 each = $140. Then I'll get
Electric Fence Barbed Staples, 2-In
to hold down the fence bottom against rabbits every six inches.
"use ground staples to hold the fence down and prevent the rabbits" 1000 staples 6 inches long = $45. and then 4 foot step-in posts for chicken wire - $2 x 15 feet apart (20 posts)=$40
So $375 for the fencing and $300 for the seedlings....plus gas=$750 farm project...
I
will haul up compost ...and woodchips mulch to suppress the grass....so the roots can grow a few years without grass
smothering the seedlings. No plowing - I'll prep the holes and fencing
in August and then pick up the seedlings beginning of September.
$750 to grow the trees. $1000 to join the co-op.
American Hazelnut Coop - sells out in first half of the year!! So
demand outpaces supply so they are looking for hazelnut farmers to
join...$500 a year income in 7 years. So cover the startup costs in 11 years.
Then
when I get nuts I could then start more of my own trees or I could
coppice the tree roots...to grow more trees....to 2000 lbs or a ton a
year production in one acre (3 more same rows of 140 x 4 feet with $1000 more in fencing cost).
So in ten years if I have grown more trees then I'll have $1000 a year
income...(More like $250) plus a good food fat source (you can't eat money)....plus the
Shiitake shroom income and food source (complete protein)....
they are packed with monounsaturated fat, protein, dietary fiber, and various vitamins and minerals while being relatively low in carbs,
making them an excellent choice for anyone following a ketogenic diet.
Furthermore, because they contain fewer net carbs than other types of nuts like almonds or cashews (a quarter cup serving contains just under 5g),
24" Tubex Tree Tubes...prevents
girdled by voles in a habitat restoration
$180 for 30 tubes but that won't stop Deer predation.... over time....
