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Post by garrett on Feb 9, 2014 10:46:30 GMT -5
well we haven't covered these yet?smiles
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 12:30:39 GMT -5
As mast (bambi and porky food) oaks are pretty well received. As people food maybe not so much. But there is a pretty big "but" in all of this. Some indigenous people did eat acorns (as flour)
Northeastern natives ate a lot of beech (fagus grandifolia), which by report they cooked out and made "butter" out of it. The reports of this being a staple food are legion.
What I expect is missing is the details of how they done that. An example of that "how" is what follows.
Italians dried chestnut-hazelnut in a slow oven rubbed off inner husk and ground up the nut meat of hazel and chestnut into flour. And used it as flour.
We don't quite have that "how" for acorns, beech, and pinyon, were turned out for the table. Again this is a place I'd direct you back to your local arboratum. Thats where the tree geeks reside, put 'em to work. I expect you are likely to be more welcomed than dismissed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 12:36:40 GMT -5
The very biggest and oldest white oak in NH lived not far from me in the lakes Region. It was estimated as being older than 2000 years and would just about fill a football field from tip-to-tip.
That monster didn't make acorns every year, but on some years it did...
I dunno at that age maybe it had a headache some years...
Even granting that I'm the biggest fat head on the block, I dunno everything.
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Post by garrett on Mar 9, 2014 10:42:28 GMT -5
preciate ya copp.as always......smiles
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Post by coffeebreak on Aug 15, 2014 14:05:08 GMT -5
This is Quercus Lobata better known as the Valley Oak this is One of the 24 different Varieties That grow in my State the baby oak is about 14" tall and about one year old now. Valley oak are the largest oak tree in North America they can live for 600 years before they Get old and die they make Acorn every 2 year Charles
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 16:12:19 GMT -5
Your dirt is too wet for a tree. Get it in more sandy gravelly if he's gonna live inna pot for a year or six.
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