Biocultural Food Knowledge
Exploring how food creates and strengthens community connections.
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Food Connects Communities
Growing, preparing and sharing food helps create relationships that strengthen communities.
People of different ages preparing and sharing a communal meal beside a productive food garden.
Food is often a collective activity.
Across cultures, people gather to plant, harvest, cook and celebrate together.
These activities create opportunities for cooperation, trust and mutual support.
Community gardens, food gatherings, cultural celebrations and shared meals help knowledge move between people while building social connections.
Food can become a meeting place where relationships grow.
Strong food systems often depend on strong communities.
A question to consider
How does sharing food help people connect with one another?
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Ediblescapes can be explored through many interconnected ways of reading the garden — including permaculture, syntropic practice, living biology, biocultural food knowledge, agroecology, and commons-based community care.
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