Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . Here is a new word for you, or it is for me, balanophagy – the practice of eating acorns. Although the word may be new, for thousands of years, acorns were an important food source for people and/or for their domestic animals. The Maidu Native American peoples of California collected acorns and stored them woven structures called granaries. For over half the year, this was the major food source as acorns were cracked