Acorn Day 2024 @ State Indian Museum park

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Acorn Day in the park outside the State Indian Museum
Saturday, October 19, 2024, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to explore and connect with local history, Native culture, and community.

At Acorn Day, we gather to celebrate and learn all about the process of turning acorns into food. Fall is the best time for harvesting acorns, a culturally significant traditional food staple for California Native peoples since time immemorial.

During this annual celebration, you can enjoy a variety of free and engaging activities including:

Attending demonstrations by Native cultural practitioners, including:
• Acorn preparation: grinding, leeching, and cooking demonstrated by Diana Almendariz, and her family. Participants can grind acorns with a mortar and pestle and see how acorn flour is cooked using hot stones.
• Basket weaving demonstrations by Dixie Rogers and other members of the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association.

Exploring California species and natural history with Michelle Fullner, host of the Golden State Naturalist podcast series.

Discovering information about traditional foodways from Sara Calvosa Olson, author of Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen (copies available for purchase in the museum store).

Shopping for native plants from Miridae Mobile Plant Nursery (available 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM).

Plus Craft and activity stations and guided tours of the museum and grounds will be available throughout the day.

We hope to see you there for a day filled with learning, sharing

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