{"id":102,"date":"2017-10-03T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/?p=102"},"modified":"2025-02-22T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:18:39","slug":"foraging-chestnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/foraging-chestnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Foraging chestnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chestnuts are specially rewarding to glean from public trees. No ladder needed, they fall to the ground when ripe.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s important not to get confused with the non-edible type of chestnut. These so-called &#8220;horse chestnuts&#8221; are bitter, mildly toxic, and come from different trees and different shells. Once you know the differences you can be sure to get the edible, delicious kind (here <a href=\"http:\/\/msue.anr.msu.edu\/news\/whats_the_difference_between_horse_chestnuts_and_sweet_chestnuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">one article<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsoftrees.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/delicious-or-deadly-a-tale-of-two-chestnuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">another<\/a> explaining how to tell them apart).\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to check where there are chestnuts and other edible trees in your area using a crowdsourced map like <a href=\"https:\/\/fallingfruit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">fallingfruit.org<\/a> or\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mundraub.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">mundraub.org<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy foraging!\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-d374c2de wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnuts_hand-rotated.jpg ,https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnuts_hand-rotated.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnuts_hand-rotated.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnuts_hand-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-104\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"Chestnuts_hand\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chestnuts are specially rewarding to glean from public trees. No ladder needed, they fall to the ground when ripe. It&#8217;s important not to get confused with the non-edible type of chestnut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,38,20],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-foraging","tag-ideas","tag-yummy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnut_burr2.jpg",750,750,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnut_burr2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnut_burr2-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnut_burr2.jpg",750,750,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnut_burr2.jpg",750,750,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnut_burr2.jpg",750,750,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chestnut_burr2.jpg",750,750,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lenara","author_link":"https:\/\/www.lenara.com\/urbangarden\/author\/lenara_0zhsjz\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Chestnuts are specially rewarding to glean from public trees. No ladder needed, they fall to the ground when ripe. 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