What kinds of foods did the Ohlone people eat?
The Ohlone knew how to locate and prepare all kinds of foods. Here’s a list: mushrooms, hazelnuts, luaren nuts, pine nuts, cherries, buckeyes, clover, poppy, mustard, miner’s lettuce, cow parsnip shoots, columbine, milkweed, larkspur, cattail roots, mariposa lily bulbs strawberries, wild grapes, currants, gooseberries, huckleberries, manzanita berries, birds, quail, geese, ducks, seabirds and eggs rabbits – Rabbits were especially useful because they could use the skins for clothing. You needed 200 rabbit skins to make one blanket.
