| To harvest chestnuts today, you should collect the burs when they start to split open, because that's how you know they're ripe. This usually happens as early as mid-August in the South, and as late as October in the North. Wear work gloves, since our bur spines are very sharp. Then place the burs in a brown paper bag, in a cool, dry place. Every 2 to 3 days, remove those fallen nuts that are free of their burs. At 10 days, remove all remaining nuts, even if the burs haven't opened.
You can store our nuts in a fridge for several weeks, but first make sure you store them in breathable plastic bags (so they don't suffocate). And you can keep them up to a year if you boil or steam them first and then freeze them (it's okay, we're built for it!)
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