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Sweet acorn oak trees

The fruit of Oak trees is highly nutritious and was once a staple food for people from around the world. We are on mission to bring the acorn back as a human food crop.
What is a sweet acorn?

What is a sweet acorn?

The one that is delicious when eaten directly from the tree, raw or cooked, with no previous processing needed

Holm Oak

Holm Oak

Quercus ilex bears the sweetest acorns of all oak species. But true sweet acorns are only the ones produced by individual superior trees

Grafted trees

Grafted trees

We reproduce our trees through grafting to make sure that they bear the same delicious nuts than the mother trees