New York Nut Growers Association will be holding a meeting on 04/26/25 in Spencer, NY
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/newyorknutgrowersassociation/1587796
One of the talks will be about processing bitternut hickory nuts into oil. Jesse Marksohn of Yellowbud Farm will be one of our speakers .
My daughter has a bitcon in her front yard.
Cross of bitternut hickory and pecan.
It taste much more like a bitternut hickory than pecan. Extremely bitter.
TNHunter
The bitter compounds are water soluble and not fat soluble so the oil that gets pressed out doesn’t have the bitter compounds
One would anticipate that bitternut hickory oil tastes terrible but it has no bitterness.
A few years ago I was foraging for hickory nuts in a river bottom… got lots of nice shagbarks.
Also discovered a bitternut hickory.
That nut meat looked so good… similar to pecan and the shell was thin… easy to crack.
It stayed in my mouth about 1 second… but the extreme astringency remained much longer. It only takes one of those to learn your lesson 
TNHunter
TNHunter, some day we need to take a trip south of Selma Alabama and look at the hickory trees along the Alabama river. I know of a couple of places where you can walk 50 feet and put a hand on 5 different species of hickory… and none are pecan.
In the afternoon we will visit Akiva Silver’s Farm
He has authored a book which focuses on 10 types of trees and there use /propagation grafting etc.
Morgan Hoven of Embers Rising Farm will be bringing some HICKORY SYRUP to sample/purchase at the meeting. My favorite is the Zesty Orange Hickory Syrup.
https://www.syrupalarue.com/hickory-products
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Still time to register. We have to limit the number of registrants due to the size of the venue. We are near the cut off number.
