Biocultural Food Knowledge
Exploring the relationship between food, culture, identity and belonging.
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Food, Place and Identity
The foods people grow and eat often reflect the places they come from and the stories they carry.
A collage of culturally diverse foods, seeds and recipes linked to different landscapes and communities.

Food often carries stories of migration, adaptation and belonging.

People move between places, but seeds, recipes and food traditions frequently travel with them.

Indigenous food knowledge reflects long relationships with local ecosystems.

Many communities continue adapting traditional foods to new environments while maintaining cultural meaning.

Food can help people remember where they come from while creating connections in new places.

Through food, people carry pieces of home.

A question to consider

What foods help connect you to your family, culture or place?

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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.