Podcasts with Nancy Turner

Exploring Ethnobiology IV (The Immaterial Components of Food Sovereignty / Comparing 17th/18th Century Cereal Grain Productivity Among Iroquois and Europeans)

Exploring Ethnobiology is a new series Deconstructing Dinner has been airing since June. Through a scientific lens, ethnobiology examines the relationships between humans and their surrounding plants, animals and ecosystems. With more and more people becoming interested in developing closer relationships with our surroundings (our food, the earth), there’s much we can all learn from…

Exploring Ethnobiology III / Investigating Eggs Update

Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) (Winnipeg, MB) – The CFIA is the arm of Health Canada in charge of safeguarding food, animals and plants. Links to Explore International Society of Ethnobiology Society of Ethnobiology Additional Reading Tending the meadows of the sea: Traditional Kwakwaka’wakw harvesting of Ts’áts’ayem (Cullis-Suzuki) T’aanuu Telegram – A Newsletter about Eelgrass…

Exploring Ethnobiology II: Nancy Turner

In May 2010, Deconstructing Dinner travelled to Vancouver Island where two international conferences on ethnobiology were being hosted. Ethnobiology examines the relationships between humans and their surrounding plants, animals and ecosystems. Today, more and more people are expressing an interest to develop closer relationships with the earth. This leaves much to be learned from the…

Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Food Sovereignty is the human right of all peoples and nations to grow food in ways that are culturally, ecologically and economically appropriate for them. The idea of food sovereignty as it applies to Western cultures, is one best illustrated through the many recurring topics covered here on Deconstructing Dinner: control of resources, control of agricultural…