@acornucopiaproject is now on Insta and, as you may have guessed, it's nuts! Here are some of the tree crop flours the AP is bringing to the world. This is a little taste of some of the niche nuts the NBC is growing in our orchards, future crops the AP is foraging and developing markets for in the present.
Over the last couple years, the Nutty Buddies have worked hard to help birth the Asheville Nuttery, the first in the regional (or national, or global!) network of cooperative processing facilities envisioned by the Acornucopia Project. The nutty notion is that, from within the shells of these little known nuts, a whole new food economy is waiting to sprout. A food economy that sequesters massive amounts of carbon, brings nutritious foods to communities, good livelihoods to anyone willing to pick up some nuts. And it's starting to happen! Follow our squirrelfriends @acornucopiaproject to see for yourself and learn how you can be a part of the nuttiness.
#treecrops #foraging #permaculture #asheville #nuts #climateaction #slowfood
Here it is. Cold pressed, super fresh, richly delicious oil pressed from wild harvested hickory nuts. ...
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The oil press came in on Tuesday, we got it running on Wednesday, and had our first event and sales on Thursday. This is our table at the North Asheville Tailgate Market at UNCA on Saturday. We'll be there the next two Saturdays from 10-1, selling hickory and acorn oil and other nutty delights.
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It still feels like a dream, and maybe it's just that nut oil has greased the passage into another plane of reality, one where what we need is right here, falling from the trees all around us. The vision of the Acornucopia Project - to scale up perennial agriculture and begin to replace destructive industrial annual ag with a distributed network of foragers, producers, and eaters - achieved a milestone this week. Come see us at the market and get a taste for yourself!
