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Can You Eat Acorns?

In the fall, they fall en masse from the trees, landing on garden paths, terraces, or flower beds, and are either swept away ...
When I lived in Pennsylvania, our property was full of oak trees, which, of course, produce acorns. Thousands of these nuts dropped every year, to the delight of the many deer and squirrels that ...
DEAR TOM: The thing about acorns is they aren’t intended to be digested whole, so any animal that eats them that way is going to expel them that way. Some seeds, which are what acorns are, need ...
Spot an oak tree this time of year and under and all around it will be hundreds of acorns. To some gardeners, acorns are a nuisance but there are positives to them. Collecting acorns gets us outdoors, ...
DEAR JOAN: We live in an area with a good variety of wild animals. Lately, I have found instances of scat containing several whole acorns. What animal would eat whole acorns and not be able to digest ...
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