nuts a must for high calorie gardening

In high calorie gardening one has to look at nuts as an important source of calories.
I believe trees should be part of a high calorie garden if possible. So I am adding some that would work along the Ohio River Valley

Chestnut has 350 calories per cup.
Hazel nut has 848 calories per cup.
Pecan has 684 calories per cup.
Hickory nut 788 calories per cup.
Acorn Flour 500 calories per cup.
Black Walnuts 773 calories per cup.
Mulberries 60 calories per cup. However, leaves are animal fodder and tree produces over extended period.

A good place to start in learning about the above nuts.

Ohio nut growers
http://www.onga.org/

Northern nut growers association
http://www.nutgrowing.org/

The Kentucky Nut Growers Association
http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/knga.htm

Indiana nut growers association
http://www.nutgrowers.org/

Both chestnut and hazelnut benefit from coppice on a regular schedule. This also provides firewood and poles for use on the farm.

Sweet Chestnut Coppice
http://myfrenchforest.blogspot.com/2010/11/sweet-chestnut-coppice.html

Hybrid Hazelnut
http://www.extension.umn.edu/environment/agroforestry/components/hybrid-hazelnuts.pdf

Restoration of Neglected Hazel Coppice
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FCIN056.pdf/$FILE/FCIN056.pdf

Management of coppice stools
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Rin259.pdf/$FILE/Rin259.pdf

Sources for trees I use with very good results

OIKOS Tree Crops – source of low tannin acorns
http://www.oikostreecrops.com/

 

Nuts as animal feed check out the prices this pork goes for!

Putting Pigs On a Hazelnut Diet
http://www.foodchannel.com/articles/article/putting-pigs-on-a-hazelnut-diet/

Woody's chestnut raised pork
http://augieland.blogs.com/augie_land/2006/11/woodys_chestnut.html

Wooded Lots Can Be Ideal for Pork Production
http://www.lancasterfarming.com/-Wooded-Lots-Can-Be-Ideal-for-Pork-Production-#.VAyJqfldVu0

Pigs prefer acorns with larger kernel. This selective consume goes along with the theory of Optimal Foraging and suggest that pigs learn to use visual stimuli when grazing. In conclusion, this study shows a constant selective acorn consumption and a variation in acorn preferences throughout the montanera period; consequently it is proven that acorn diet is not homogeneous and varies over the fattening period.
http://www.uco.es/organiza/departamentos/prod-animal/economia/aula/img/pictorex/12_11_19_vicente0.pdf

Let Them Eat Acorns Preaching the Gospel of the Forest-Fed Pig
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/dining/preaching-the-gospel-of-the-forest-fed-pig.html?_r=0

Tree tannins to reduce GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODES in livestock

When the ground is moist and warm parasites like Barber Pole Worm can be a major issue when goats feed on grasses. Fodder trees can offer a source of parasite free food and tannins that can reduce some parasite activity inside the animal.

IN VITRO EFFECTS OF THREE WOODY PLANT AND SAINFOIN EXTRACTS ON THIRD-STAGE LARVAE AND ADULT WORMS OF THREE GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODES. (Hazel Nut)
http://orgprints.org/6989/1/parasitology.pdf

Compared in vitro anthelmintic effects of eight tannin-rich plants browsed by goats in the southern part of France (Chest Nut)
http://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a85/00801039.pdf  (you will need to translate)

ANTHELMINTIC AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES IN SOME SPECIES OF MULBERRY

(kills tapeworm)
http://www.ijppsjournal.com/Vol4Suppl5/4992.pdf

Acorn flour

The Best Way to Make Acorn Flour
http://honest-food.net/2013/09/26/acorn-flour-recipe-cold-process/

Black walnut toxicity

Practical Permaculture – Planting Under Walnut Trees
http://chriscondello.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/practical-permaculture-planting-under-walnut-trees/

Black Walnut Toxicity to Plants, Humans and Horses
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1148.html

Growing Truffles on Oak and Hazelnut

Garland Truffles is the oldest and first successful grower of truffles in the Western Hemisphere. It is the only nursery in the United States that has grown and sold trees that are in production.
http://www.garlandtruffles.com/index.html

American Truffle Company sells seedling started with truffle fungus
http://www.americantruffle.com/faqs/

New World Truffieres also sell seedling started with truffle fungus
http://truffletree.com/

Growing mushrooms on coppiced Oak and Chestnut logs.

Fungi Perfecti
http://www.fungi.com/shop/grow-mushrooms-on-logs-and-stumps.html

Producing Shiitake Mushrooms - A Guide for Small-Scale Outdoor Cultivation on Logs
http://content.ces.ncsu.edu/19218.pdf