A California black oak tree
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The Black Oak & the Acorn Larder

A broad-crowned California black oak that the Serrano people treated as a grocery store — its acorns leached, pounded, and cooked into a staple porridge. It still feeds the forest, dropping thousands of acorns in a good year for deer, pigeons, woodpeckers, and squirrels.

Crestline, California9,000+ yearsWritten by historians, never AIResearched & written by Luke Ollett, Janine Jenkins

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