Fresh off the steamer: Acorn Honey Steam Buns! YUM eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...

We're often asked why we’re working with wild plants instead of already domesticated plants, like every other agricultural research company in the world is. Answer: genetic diversity can help save our failing food system: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/nati...

This is why we're a cooperative. @en.mondragon.coop headwatersblog.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Fun fact: the Celtic Tree of Life (Crann Bethadh) is an oak tree, representing strength, resilience, and the hope. The Celts revered this tree; The name of Celtic priests, Druids, derives in part from the root “dru” which means oak.

There are a lot of overhyped "super foods" out there, but #Acorn is the real deal. Check out this great breakdown of the nutritional content and more, from our Chief Science officer: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/bett... #NativeFoods #Sustainability #Nutrition

"Why an acorn factory?" So many reasons. Mostly because we should, and because we can. www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/in-d...

If you or anyone you know owns oak or redwood forest, and wants to make passive income by preserving that forest, please give us a holler! With the assault on public land, we're ramping up our efforts to help private landowners preserve theirs. www.manzanitacooperative.com/carbon-credits

Acorn polenta slaps. That is all. eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...

Want to try acorn flour? Wondering why Americans don't eat acorn anymore? Want to make THE BEST cookies ever? Get the skinny on acorn - and how you can help bring this native food back to the mainstream - in this short article. www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/its-...

These are seriously the best chocolate chip cookies we've ever tasted - made with 50% acorn flour. eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...

Tonight I did a test bake of the Acorn Chocolate Chip cookies we have up on eatacorn.com. They didn't turn out to be the prettiest chocolate chip cookies I've ever made, but they're definately some of the tastiest with a wonderful almost brownie-like texture. #eatacorn eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...

Check out the feature article on @manzanitacoop.bsky.social in Edible Mendocino & Lake Counties magazine! www.ediblemendocino.com/stories/manz...

Great piece from @wired.com on how invasive grasses are fueling our wildfires, echoing the piece our CMO wrote a few weeks ago: www.wired.com/story/how-in...

The "How did we get here?" question on the LA Fires needs to consider the invasive plant species, which are teaching us critical rebuilding/replanting lessons. Our LA Native CMO explores this: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/fire...

Despite the nonsense we saw from Trump yesterday, please know that climate progress is continuing through other channels... This is important to keep in mind, every day.

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives is working diligently in support of worker co-ops nationwide. They're the national grassroots organization dedicated to the development of businesses owned and managed by their workers in pursuit of an economy that works for all. Follow @usworker.coop. 🌲🌲

People are sometimes confused about how oaks can thrive with no irrigation in a climate where almond orchards are dying. The answer is simple - look at the roots! Not only that, they build rich deep topsoil and support more than 6,000 other species. #NativePlants #Sustainability #EatAcorn

There's a huge amount of misinformation on social media about the #LAFires, but the causes are actually well documented. Our CMO (who grew up in a neighborhood that burned) weighs in: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/fire...

California's Oak forests sequester ~80 tons of #carbon per acre while supporting massive #biodiversity. Preserving - and replanting - them is one of the most powerful things we can do to fight #climatechange. Our new white paper goes into detail. www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/oak-...

This is a HUGE issue for companies like ours. Fake meat companies have raked in a ton of money, but it is very hard to raise if you're doing anything truly innovative or unique. We're going to make it happen anyway, but with so much at stake there need to be better funding mechanisms in place.

Putting together our annual email newsletter today. Mailchimp's "Social" bar only lets you select from the sites they already have icons for and they don't have bluesky yet, so we put the link here on the Twitter icon instead. So in case you're wondering, yes that was deliberate.

An experiment of workplace democracy confirms that groups of workers that vote to determine their compensation scheme provide significantly more effort than groups that had no say in how they would be compensated. The estimated effort increase is between 7% and 9%. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Manzanita is just one of many "garage scale" companies working on solutions that can help the world adapt to a changing climate. Small investments now can make all the difference.

Climate impacts on food security continue to be the most abundantly clear and present danger to, well, organised civilisation.

The brand new winter issue of 'Edible Mendocino & Lake Counties' magazine is hot off the press and on news stands throughout both counties. The cover article is about our work to bring native Californian foods to the mainstream! You can read it online on their website: www.ediblemendocino.com

New to Bluesky and want a list of worker co-ops and small businesses? Give these a follow! go.bsky.app/UsAcPoV

People ask why we're a #cooperative, and the answer is simple: it's better for the workers, it's better for local economies, and it's just better business.

A great infographic on Cooperatives and their impact.

Very cool!

Re-integrating our economy into natural systems and strengthening those systems is essential if we want to slow climate collapse and adapt. www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...

The destruction of River ecosystems is one of the biggest side effects of industrial agriculture in the west. This is a huge issue.

A great article on Oak tree mast cycles. Have you ever wondered why there are so many acorns one year and not another? Bay Nature explores the mystery. baynature.org/article/an-e...

To be clear, demanding more water be diverted from rivers to irrigate non-native crops that are mostly exported is demanding that Salmon go extinct. It doesn't have to be this way! There is more than enough water to go around if we transition to native crops. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/califor...

When was the last time you drank water from a river or lake? Think about it .... The quality of the water in our rivers and lakes is closely linked to the way we farm our planet. Agroforestry systems offer promising solutions t.ly/k9V7l #weletitgrow #foodforest #agroforesty #regenerativeagriculture

Industrial agriculture is one of the biggest culprits by replacing habitat with non-native monocultures that destroys soil, poisons insects, and poisons rivers with runoff. Humanity can do better - reconnect our food systems to natural systems and grow food in a way that supports habitat

Hi Bluesky! We're a worker-owned agricultural cooperative working with resilient native food plants that can survive climate change while providing habitat. It's good to be here! We'd appreciate all your recommendations on who to follow for nature-based solutions to climate change.