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Article: Stalking the wild acorn.(using acorns for foods and medicinals)(Brief Article)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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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.
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