Fun with FOREST Food

What can our oak forests provide us in terms of food, cooking, and fun? A lot!

Here are the handouts and visuals from our 2014 Farm Day exhibit:

Acorn Cookies: recipe and coloring sheet

Acorn collecting and processing ........ Baking with acorn flour

California bay laurel ........ Douglas-fir and Yerba Buena

baskets etc ........ bulbs and berries

acorn flour and other foods

tribal map

 

Online resources for further research and review:

Ethnobotany handbook from the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum

Native Uses of Native Plants from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

The Ohlone Peoples: Botanical, Animal and Mineral Resources

A video tutorial on harvesting and processing acorns