Acorns

Acorns have been a staple food for centuries, and are very abundant in our part of the world. Now that the acorns are off the trees and are on the ground, this is the time to get them. They have several uses, one is as a potatoe type mash substitute, and as a coffee substitute. You can’t eat them raw due to the tannin them, and they are very bitter.

To have the mash, you have to roast them with the shells on, until the shells split, then shell them, chop them up, then put them into a bag in a stream of water for 48 hours which removes the tannin. Boil them up, and eat them, by that time if you hadn’t planned ahead you would be starving and eat anything!! LOL

R has tried the coffee and he likes the real thing, or dandelion root coffee, personnally I wouldn’t have either! Use dandelions and make herbal tea!

Autumn?

The weather is really odd at the moment, one day it’s freezing cold, the next it’s torrential rain, then the next it’s all misty. Some of the trees have lost their leaves and others are still green. We seem to have lost the seasons, there seems to be only 2 now, spring and autumn.

There might appear that there is little wild food to be found, but this isn’t always the case, it’s still warm enough to go cray fishing, and R is disappearing off each still week doing this. Hawthorns and acorns are still available, rosehips, dandelions, and burdock on those days when the ground is wet! is still around. We have been picking plantains, and their seeds, which we feel are really powerful natural wild foods, which many people are missing out on.

Wild mushrooms although hard to find, you might be lucky with due to the weather, and R wants me to remind you that it is officially the game season, not vegan but it is a way of living a purerlife, which is more in tune with nature that R lives his life by.