Great picnic, walk, and birding at Indian Grinding Rock State Park, California, Sierra Nevada Foothills.
This is a Valley Oak, our largest.
The Native Americans gathered the massive amount of acorns from these trees and ground them into flour on rocks with holes made by all the grinding.
The flour was used for bread and mush, seasoned with herbs and salt. I don’t know how it tastes but is very nutritious.
They would cook the bread wrapped in poison oak leaves.
This was a social community effort.
Just think: free food there for the grinding.
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Depends on whether the oak is a white oak or a black oak. White oak acorns are less bitter; black oak acorns need the tannin leached out first. Friend gave me some white oak flour with a blender... he does all sorts of wild foods stuff. I use it in pesto with nettles, and to make florentine cookies (no nettles in those!)
We have a lot of modern conveniences in our lives these days.
Now and then we are annoyed when the power goes out and have to adapt with what we have, we know the power will come back eventually. So it really is just an annoyance.
While in San Francisco awhile back I wondered what everyone would do if the power or water simply stopped. What would all the residents do and how would they get by? I think they would call someone to complain.
Our family lives in a very rural community. There is no one to complain too, we just have to figure it out for ourselves along with our community.
Additionally, I was expected due to my line of work as a ranger, to be able to explain the early life styles of Native Americans. It is interesting to me that it is possible to thrive without modern conveniences.
I think you got me off on a tangent and I am babbling now.
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A bike ride today on the lookout for spelt flour