‘Tis the season to get nutty!
What’s nuts is the idea that we can begin to transition the source of our foods from annual commodity products like corn and soy to native perennial trees that grow abundantly throughout our region. Yeah, yeah sure nuts are nutritionally better for us, as are trees for the environment, but how about flavor and how to cook with native nut products! Come taste the possibilities.
This session, Bill Whipple of the Acornucopia Project will introduce us to the possibilities of what to do with black walnuts, hickories, chestnuts, acorns, and hazel nuts. The holiday season is the season of cooking extravagantly and nuts are principle to even the most “usual” type food. Bill and his friends have been experimenting wildly with interlacing nuts into foods that are normally dominated by annual grains and surprising results are encouraging. Imagine eggnog made with hickory milk, pudding or fruit cake made with acorns, or cheese made with walnuts. The possibilities are endless and we are just getting started in a pioneering field of gastronomic innovation.
Come and taste some nutty delicacies, be inspired for your next holiday meal planning, and learn a thing or two about supporting the local wild food shed right outside your back door.
All ages welcome.
Price: $20.00 (and receive a voucher for $10.00 worth of nuts from our nuttery).
Children 12 and under are free.
Directions: GPS address 151 Cedar Hill road. Enter through the gate and keep right as the drive goes down hill. You’ll come to a widened out parking area among various greenhouses and warehouses – you can park here, just do not block any obvious roadway area. You will see Mother Earth Produce’s warehouse on the right, then walk up and look for us across from them, up the steep driveway on the left, we’ll be inside the white house there.
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