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I've been collecting acorns lately to leach and grind into dough for a gluten-free flatbread for thanksgiving.
Finding acorns was harder than expected. The squirrels seem to be a lot faster than I am under the huge oaks near my home. I ended up heading over to the spot I had collected acorns as a 7-year-old, a whole block away from my house. It seemed like very far away then.
The trees are still there, and there are enough of them to drop plenty of acorns for both myself and the squirrels (as well as plenty to be picked up and trashed during leaf-raking, and planty more to be crunched by cars driving over them in the gutter). There were many fewer acorns on the north side of the road than the south.
The squirrels are DEFINITELY infuriating when the acorns are sparse on the ground. I can see how squirrel stew with acorn dumplings would be a very satisfying meal. I did go a good couple weeks after acorn drop, so it was as much my fault as anything, but it was still frustrating.
I got a bunch with some time and odd looks by neighborhood residents. I'm keeping them on my deck in the shade in a mesh bag (good humidity/temperature) till I can shell and set them up to leach. Note: if squirrels could access my deck I would not do this.
I'll put some pictures up later on (I love the camera on my new phone) but to keep a calories-per-effort record:
first trip 45 mins, no acorns.
second trip 1.5 hours collecting, 2.6kg acorns
Finding acorns was harder than expected. The squirrels seem to be a lot faster than I am under the huge oaks near my home. I ended up heading over to the spot I had collected acorns as a 7-year-old, a whole block away from my house. It seemed like very far away then.
The trees are still there, and there are enough of them to drop plenty of acorns for both myself and the squirrels (as well as plenty to be picked up and trashed during leaf-raking, and planty more to be crunched by cars driving over them in the gutter). There were many fewer acorns on the north side of the road than the south.
The squirrels are DEFINITELY infuriating when the acorns are sparse on the ground. I can see how squirrel stew with acorn dumplings would be a very satisfying meal. I did go a good couple weeks after acorn drop, so it was as much my fault as anything, but it was still frustrating.
I got a bunch with some time and odd looks by neighborhood residents. I'm keeping them on my deck in the shade in a mesh bag (good humidity/temperature) till I can shell and set them up to leach. Note: if squirrels could access my deck I would not do this.
I'll put some pictures up later on (I love the camera on my new phone) but to keep a calories-per-effort record:
first trip 45 mins, no acorns.
second trip 1.5 hours collecting, 2.6kg acorns
