If you're like most people, you'll likely be eating nuts of some sort as part of holiday nut sampler, but do you know how they’re harvested? After the jump, a clip from Our Daily Bread, a documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. Basically, a tractor with a giant arm shakes the crap out of the tree in question, after which a sort of industrial vacuum cleaner–shovel scoops them up and dumps them on a tarp....
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From the Washington Post: "'Once I started paying attention, I couldn't find any acorns anywhere. Not from white oaks, red oaks or black oaks, and this was supposed to be their big year,' said Greg Zell, a naturalist at Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington. 'We're talking zero. Not a single acorn. It's really bizarre.'"...
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