black walnuts

Hello ,

fellow health-seekers !I've got a quick and maybe stupid question but you'll have to excuse me , I'm a eastern european city boy and we don't have black walnuts there so I don't know anything about them.I've found a few trees in my local forest preserve and I'm wondering how can I tell when they are ripe and what ` can I use them for ? I mean can I eat them like regular walnuts or what? Also how can I make dewormer out of them ? Are the leaves of any use ? I know that I need wormwood and clover for the Dewormer and hopefully I can find those two herbs in the forest as well.
I've become a regular at the forest preserve , love the wildcrafted, organic blackberries , mulberries , apples and maybe I'll find strawberries soon or even mushrooms. Anyway any advice on the walnuts would be greatly appreciated . Thanks in advance.
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