Acorns!
Well, our community garden at Epic isn't doing so well. Okay, so the lettuce is doing GREAT, but I seem to have killed most of the squash (I couldn't bring myself to just cull, I tried to transplant, which seems to have caused them to all die). And I love squash and am not a huge fan of lettuce, so this makes me sad. The tomatoes that we planted are still scrawny, but some of the volunteer tomatoes look like they might manage to bare fruit before winter. We'll see. I want my own land to plant a garden on, where I can do starts and stuff, and have it just be there instead of a few miles away so that I see it everyday and can improve the soil year over year. And plant perennials. :-(
Anyhow, what there was truly a lot of when we were there today was acorns. Lots and lots of acorns from the giant oak trees towering over our plot. We gathered about 2 lbs and brought them home, on account of I'm pretty sure I've heard of people eating acorns before and not dying (actually, of people eating acorns as a normal part of their diet). Well, it seems they were actually a major staple of many Native American diets, and thanks to the internet, I have information about how to treat them such that they should be yummy. Unfortunately, it's not exactly going to be a fast process, I don't think, since first we will have to shell them and then we will have to soak the bitter tannins out. But it sounds cool. And they are supposed to be healthy and yummy. Plus cheap, local, organic, and independent of the man.
I love Wikipedia. I love Google. And I love Mother Nature.
Anyhow, what there was truly a lot of when we were there today was acorns. Lots and lots of acorns from the giant oak trees towering over our plot. We gathered about 2 lbs and brought them home, on account of I'm pretty sure I've heard of people eating acorns before and not dying (actually, of people eating acorns as a normal part of their diet). Well, it seems they were actually a major staple of many Native American diets, and thanks to the internet, I have information about how to treat them such that they should be yummy. Unfortunately, it's not exactly going to be a fast process, I don't think, since first we will have to shell them and then we will have to soak the bitter tannins out. But it sounds cool. And they are supposed to be healthy and yummy. Plus cheap, local, organic, and independent of the man.
I love Wikipedia. I love Google. And I love Mother Nature.