Article: Stalking the wild acorn.(using acorns for foods and medicinals)(Brief Article)

There are many good reasons to learn about foraging "wild" foods. It is, of course, a survival skill, and a part of simple living and living with nature. But foraging also preserves old and now largely neglected knowledge. Here's a good example.

Marie Burke

16490 Blue Oak Rd

Cottonwood CA 96022-8508

There are about 50 species of oak trees. We have several of them in California: black, live and blue oak, to name a few. But the most important to the Indians was the white oak. They used the bark for medicinals and the acorns for medicinals and food.

The Wintu Indians are just one tribe that has a ceremonial dance and ...

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