Why I eat acorns nut 🌰 It’s difficult to encompass how many wins come from foraging for acorns. The first that comes to mind is that it is incredibly sustainable. Where many foods we buy from the grocery store require large amounts of fossil fuels to grow, process, and transport, acorns offer us an alternative. This wild food is local, abundant, and nutritious! In mast years oaks drop more acorns than wildlife are able to deal with. A forager can gather these acorns from oaks and process them i

Are there any poisonous acorns? If you do a Google search, it will sure look like there are! However, upon closer inspection, these toxicity cases are all related to livestock poisoning where the animals consume significant amounts of either oak leaves or raw acorns. You would have to really go out of your way to consume enough acorns to the level that would become dangerous. As you saw in the video, raw, unleached acorns taste terrible! I hope this helps you feel more comfortable about foraging