Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap
Post Number: 610 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 2:17 pm: | |
I have a project that I will need acorns for. I have searched around in Clark Park for acorn-bearing trees and this must be the off-year for those Oaks, because there have been none. Last year there was a huge crop there. I think its very late to be looking for acorns, as all the squirrels and bluejays will have been working on them for weeks, but maybe the readers here have some hard leads on locations of (preferably) several oak trees in or near SW Detroit. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 816 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 2:20 pm: | |
What are you going to do with them, if I may ask? |
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap
Post Number: 612 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 2:29 pm: | |
Make Thanksgiving decorations and a wreath. The ones without caps I do give back to the squirrels and the bluejays. |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 3963 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 2:52 pm: | |
Not a hard lead, but a good possibility might be some of the cemeteries, Woodmere, Holy Cross in SWD, Elmwood, Trinity, etc. Or maybe a call to Greening of Detroit |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 818 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 2:53 pm: | |
Ah. I was hoping for a recipe. I hear they're edible once they're leached of their tannin. I've seen very few acorns this year. Sorry. |
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap
Post Number: 613 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 3:07 pm: | |
Go here for some recipres using acorn flour. I know a family that uses acorn flour that they make, or acorn "meal", to make cookies. There is a website about self suffiency that describes how to make acorn flour. You can google it up. You are right about the tannin leaching. Very necessary. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 819 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 3:28 pm: | |
Oh, yes! Very nice website! http://www.selfsufficientish.c om/acorns.htm |
Treelock Member Username: Treelock
Post Number: 160 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 7:44 pm: | |
You're definitely late in searching for acorns. My 'hood in Ferndale is filled with towering oaks but the squirrels hoarded all the acorns away weeks ago and dig holes to bury them all over the goddamned place. I'm not sure about oaks in SW Detroit, but they're all over the place in the Green Acres, Sherwood Forest and University District neighborhoods. |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 2858 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 12:16 pm: | |
jeez given that maple syrup thread, the mind kinda boggles about what possible uses there might be for acorns ... you string them like beads, loop a ring on one end, and .... or maybe it's simply to feed the gerbil? |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 293 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:19 pm: | |
I have billions of them up at my cabin, how far are you willing to drive? |