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Acorn honey steam bun — EatAcorn.com Steamed buns are a staple of dim sum, and the cooking technique works just as well with acorn. These slightly sweet, slightly salty buns are wonderful as the base for burgers or eaten hot with butter.

Fresh off the steamer: Acorn Honey Steam Buns! YUM eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...

Seeing the Forest for the Weeds: How Native Plants Can Save Our Failing Food System — Manzanita Cooperative We’re often asked why we’re working with wild plants instead of already domesticated plants, like every other agricultural research company in the world. The short answer is that genetic diversity in ...

We're often asked why we’re working with wild plants instead of already domesticated plants, like every other agricultural research company in the world is. Answer: genetic diversity can help save our failing food system: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/nati...

Lessons from the World's Largest Cooperative In the mountains of Northern Spain, in the culturally distinct region known as the Basque Country, lies the world's most successful cooperative.

This is why we're a cooperative. @en.mondragon.coop headwatersblog.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Fun fact: the Celtic Tree of Life (Crann Bethadh) is an oak tree, representing strength, resilience, and the hope. The Celts revered this tree; The name of Celtic priests, Druids, derives in part from the root “dru” which means oak.

Acorn as a superfood: the health benefits of acorn flour — Manzanita Cooperative Acorn flour is a better alternative for a diabetic, keto, or weight loss diet regimen. It's low-glycemic and a complete protein.

There are a lot of overhyped "super foods" out there, but #Acorn is the real deal. Check out this great breakdown of the nutritional content and more, from our Chief Science officer: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/bett... #NativeFoods #Sustainability #Nutrition

Those look great! We love planting native oaks!

“Why bother with Acorns?” - In defense of Acorn, Part II — Manzanita Cooperative Acorn is delicious, sustainable, a lifesaver for diabetics, and might just help prevent the collapse of human civilization as the climate changes.

"Why an acorn factory?" So many reasons. Mostly because we should, and because we can. www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/in-d...

If you or anyone you know owns oak or redwood forest, and wants to make passive income by preserving that forest, please give us a holler! With the assault on public land, we're ramping up our efforts to help private landowners preserve theirs. www.manzanitacooperative.com/carbon-credits

Acorn Polenta — EatAcorn.com Acorn Polenta can be served as a creamy porridge or sliced and fried into crispy golden discs

Acorn polenta slaps. That is all.

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We can't wait to see acorns shooting up in reforested areas here in CA... we'll be working not against rhododendron, but against the deforestation caused by Big Ag. 🌰 #acornisfood

Acorns are, indeed, magical. 🌰

We love how much biodiversity oak trees protect; this is one of the reasons we're looking to reforest!

Love this!

It’s time to eat acorn (again) — Manzanita Cooperative Why did Americans stop eating acorn? And how can we get back to using this native ingredient? The answers might surprise you.

Want to try acorn flour? Wondering why Americans don't eat acorn anymore? Want to make THE BEST cookies ever? Get the skinny on acorn - and how you can help bring this native food back to the mainstream - in this short article.

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Dry ingredients for cookies

Stirring in eggs and vanilla

acorn chocolate chip cookie dough!

The best chocolate chip cookie you've ever tasted, made with acorn

These are seriously the best chocolate chip cookies we've ever tasted - made with 50% acorn flour. eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...

Adobe is great for fire and climate. It can be problematic in earthquakes, but there are ways to reinforce it. Earth-based building has a lot of advantages and there's a whole movement around those techniques.

Acorn Chocolate Chip Cookies — EatAcorn.com These delicious nutty treats are everything you love about chocolate chip cookies, but better.

Tonight I did a test bake of the Acorn Chocolate Chip cookies we have up on eatacorn.com. They didn't turn out to be the prettiest chocolate chip cookies I've ever made, but they're definately some of the tastiest with a wonderful almost brownie-like texture. #eatacorn eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...

Check out the feature article on @manzanitacoop.bsky.social in Edible Mendocino & Lake Counties magazine! www.ediblemendocino.com/stories/manz...

Fire resilience through native landscapes, indigenous wisdom & community — Manzanita Cooperative Restoring burned land with native crops - and adjusting our current landscapes to remove invasive species in favor of native plants - is a critical step in wildfire resilience moving forward.

Yes! We just wrote a piece about this a couple weeks ago. We MUST prioritize re-wilding these spaces with native landscape. www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/fire...

Fire resilience through native landscapes, indigenous wisdom & community — Manzanita Cooperative Restoring burned land with native crops - and adjusting our current landscapes to remove invasive species in favor of native plants - is a critical step in wildfire resilience moving forward.

Not just where to build, but what to plant. The non-native grasses and plants brought by the Spaniards are a prevailing cause of these kinds of fires. Our L.A. native CMO wrote a piece on this: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/fire...

How Invasive Plants Are Fueling California’s Wildfire Crisis Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the state’s fire dynamics.

Great piece from @wired.com on how invasive grasses are fueling our wildfires, echoing the piece our CMO wrote a few weeks ago: www.wired.com/story/how-in...

Fire resilience through native landscapes, indigenous wisdom & community — Manzanita Cooperative Restoring burned land with native crops - and adjusting our current landscapes to remove invasive species in favor of native plants - is a critical step in wildfire resilience moving forward.

The "How did we get here?" question on the LA Fires needs to consider the invasive plant species, which are teaching us critical rebuilding/replanting lessons. Our LA Native CMO explores this: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/fire...

Despite the nonsense we saw from Trump yesterday, please know that climate progress is continuing through other channels...

This is important to keep in mind, every day.

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives is working diligently in support of worker co-ops nationwide. They're the national grassroots organization dedicated to the development of businesses owned and managed by their workers in pursuit of an economy that works for all.

Follow @usworker.coop. 🌲🌲

Diagram showing the depth and size of native Californian Oak tree root systems as compared to domesticated Almond and Pistachio.

People are sometimes confused about how oaks can thrive with no irrigation in a climate where almond orchards are dying. The answer is simple - look at the roots! Not only that, they build rich deep topsoil and support more than 6,000 other species. #NativePlants #Sustainability #EatAcorn

Fire resilience through native landscapes, indigenous wisdom & community — Manzanita Cooperative Restoring burned land with native crops - and adjusting our current landscapes to remove invasive species in favor of native plants - is a critical step in wildfire resilience moving forward.

There's a huge amount of misinformation on social media about the #LAFires, but the causes are actually well documented.

Our CMO (who grew up in a neighborhood that burned) weighs in: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/fire...

That's true to some degree, though as consumers it's hard when there are no good options or those good options are not affordable. That's a big part of what our cooperative is working on, actually - disrupting climate-destroying food systems to provide an alternative.

Oak Forests and Carbon (White Paper) — Manzanita Cooperative Manzanita Cooperative is proud to introduce our latest white paper, Native California Biodiversity-Centered Agroforestry for Productive Land-Use, Carbon Storage, and Sustainability . This work outlin...

California's Oak forests sequester ~80 tons of #carbon per acre while supporting massive #biodiversity. Preserving - and replanting - them is one of the most powerful things we can do to fight #climatechange. Our new white paper goes into detail. www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/oak-...

If you know anyone investing in those solutions (or anyone reading this does), we're beginning a seed round to launch California's first modern factory processing acorn into food at scale.

Agroforestry based on Acorn can drive reforestation, rebuild topsoil, sequester carbon, and restore habitat.

Food systems that degrade topsoil as a precondition of their existence absolutely do emit carbon. It's not just what's consumed, its how it's produced and the entire framework of industry built around it.