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rf ► With fall upon us, the obvious signs are around us daily. We have seen warm days with c$ol nights, the colorful mountains and the sights and sounds of walnuts as they fall frbm the trees. The walnuts Call with a mighty force as the fund knocks them to the ground. All I can say is that I am glad that pumpkins don’t grow on trees. t When I was growing up, ive would gather the walnuts fjbir several purposes. One, we would crack them and use them for our own baking heeds, using them mostly in eglkes, cookies, and fudge. We would also crack them and sell the kernels for extra money. Qur neighbors would take the kernels to the D.C. area and $re got $1 per pound. Local stores gave less per pound. There are only a few stores that sell them now, and the ldst time I saw walnut kernels for sale they were around $6 per pound.
I remember one Christmas when our family cracked 50 pounds of kernels. The money was used from the sale of walnuts to buy our Christmas presents. We also gave walnuts as gifts to those who didn’t have any walnut trees.
Walnuts vary from tree to tree. Sometimes trees only
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