The Nutty Buddy Collective
Acornucopia Project
"There plenty to go around and more to be had."
- Old squirrel proverb
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Acornucopia
is rooted in Asheville, NC.
soon to sprout
up near you.
The Acornucopia Project's mission is to develop perennial based agriculture as an economically viable, environmentally beneficial, and socially dignified human endeavor. Regional hubs of worker owned cooperatives will increase the demand for highly nutritious tree products incentifying farmers and landowners to transition their pastures and croplands into native tree orchards, bringing balance to our checkbooks, our environment, and our diets,
West Virginia Nut'n To Do Festival
Union, West Virginia
October 10th, 2020
Acornucopia is the proud sponsor of the West Virginia Nut Festival celebrating the diversity of native nuts that grow on our richly textured landscape. Acorns, hickories, walnuts hazelnuts litter the ground in the fall and have fed countless generations who have gathered them up to eat. So gather yee up some nuts, bring em, and see what can be done with them.
The festival will be located outside of Union, WV on the newly planted 40 acre nut orchard a top Swopes Knobs. The site has a beautiful vista that looks over "a hundred miles". Featured will be dehulling and nut cracking demos, nut tastings, delicious foods made from native nuts, nut judging, tour of the orchard, walnut hull tattooing, workshops, nut trees for sale, squirrel dog contest, games and prizes.
Admission: 20 lbs of nuts
If you would like to participate in the festival please contact the festival organizer.
More details to come as the time draws near.
Concentricity- Acornucopia is finding overlap with many artisans. Samples of oils, nuts, flour and by products are being given out to innovative chefs, bakers, skin care alchemists, brewers, miso makers, vegan cheese dervishes, horticulturalists, chemists, tea blenders, tinkerers, and engineers. Collaboratively we, like good food, are more than the sum of our ingredients.
In the news
Wanderschool Podcast- 1/30/2020
WNC Magazine- Nov/Dec 2019 issue
Mother Earth News- Podcast 6/21/18
Mountain Express- cover article 2/2018
Mountain xpress- acornucopia 2017
Mountain xpress- Nutty Buddy collective
Laurel of Asheville- Nutty Buddy Collective
wpvmfm radio interview 11/2016
If you are kindred in your pursuit of a world that is completely nuts. I invite you to browse through the website. Find out how to get involved in this ground shaking project . We will need foragers for the 2018 season, and visionary landowners indefinitely. The A.P. is an all inclusive endeavor and there is something here for everyone. Please sign up for our newsletter.