Did you know that you can eat acorns, and that they’re incredibly nutritious? Did you know that Octavia Butler wanted us to eat acorns, too? At the Royall House & Slave Quarters workshop “Acorns & Octavia,” you will learn more about the fun, fascinating and filling (!) world of acorn harvesting, processing and consumption. Workshop leader Kaitlin Smith will also teach you about the Afrofuturist thought and writing of science fiction author Octavia Butler, who wanted us to know how acorns can be a vessel of liberation.

Kaitlin Smith is a scholar, writer, and public humanist-naturalist who runs Storied Grounds, a venture that delivers unique place-based educational experiences and tools informed by folk knowledge and humanistic ideas. Kaitlin also is a PhD student at Harvard in History of Science.

Attendance is free but registration is required through Eventbrite.